Rudy Gobert wins his 4th DPOY which ties an NBA record.
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Off the top of my head, that actually happened, twice!! Cortez Kennedy(RIP) won DPOY for a 2-14 Seahawks team in 91 or 92. Dikk Butkus did it for a 1-13 Bears team in 1969, I think.
His team been playing real defense, him being the best, it makes sense 
But this is probably one of the hardest ones to determine, cause you’ve gotta watch mad games. Stats, advanced ones too, will probably not give you the full picture.
But this is probably one of the hardest ones to determine, cause you’ve gotta watch mad games. Stats, advanced ones too, will probably not give you the full picture.
murksiderock
Superstar
Gobert walking into The Hall now, especially if he adds a ring this year. Going to Minnesota the best thing that happened to his career...
Wemby was such a deterrent, teams wouldn't even give him the opportunity to swat their shyt into the stands.
UpAndComing
Veteran
Facts. To further add to this point
Spurs before they had Wemby in the 2022-2023 season: 22-60 record
Spurs in Wemby's rookie season 2023-2024: 22-60 record
Richard Glidewell
Yall done tore all the bottom of ya shoes w/me!!!
duckbutta
eienaar van mans
Wemby will probably only win it 1 or 2 times. DPOY is mostly reserved for all defense and almost no offense players.
Kawhi won DPOY back to back. After the second one he was comfortably averaging 20 or more a game. He started being looked at as an MVP candidate, so he sort of "graduated" from DPOY.
Same thing will happen to Victor. He probably wins it back to back at some point but his offense is so good that he will quickly graduate to an mvp candidate, which in turn means voters will vote some other defensive player who doesn't have great offense for DPOY, since the award is basically specifically for that.
Think about how great Tim Duncan was defensively. He never won DPOY. Made 15 all defensive teams, was selected first team 8 times, spent half his career playing on a top 5 defense that he spearheaded, but never won DPOY, because he was never looked at as just a defensive player.
Wemby should’ve gotten itPatient0 deserves it.
chuckifubuck
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This is 100% true, but I will say that if Wemby continues to evolve and starts having freakish block/rim protection numbers, he might be the first to get both DPOY and MVP consideration every year.
Wemby made the greatest shooter of all time legit look like Ben Simmons right in front of an open basket scared to shoot. Think about that.
O.T.I.S.
Veteran
Yeah it was something like this I saw but had more stats. I think Wemby only didn’t lead in a couple of them
And this was on a minutes restriction.
