Life_Teaching6499 | Lakers

230 | 14 hours ago

There’s no reason why Wemby doesn’t win DPOY and make All-NBA First team if he hits the 65 games requirement.

Well unless somehow he gets his talents sucked away by the Monstars.

Fonfoyah

54 | 11 hours ago

If I had to guess, he is one of the Monstars. Maybe all of them combined. Minus Muggsy.

*Edit - maybe he has 2 Muggsy’s in him.

sharklavapit | Bucks

11 | 5 hours ago

You have two Muggsies inside of you and both are gay

Fritanga5lyfe

2 | 2 hours ago

And both are DAWGS

LTIRfortheWIN | Spurs

2 | 5 hours ago

Same

AffectionateSpare677

-25 | 10 hours ago

I didn’t laugh before the edit but after the edit I still didn’t laugh

Panzer_I | Celtics

13 | 7 hours ago

He could end out the season playing D like Trae Young and I’d still give him DPOY

His impact so far created an insurmountable gap between the rest of the DPOY candidates.

SUPERSAMMICH6996 | Cavaliers

7 | 4 hours ago

It feels a bit like the ‘who’s the best three-point shooter in the NBA’ conversation. It only starts getting interesting once you move past the clear number one.

riddlesinthedark117 | Jazz

1 | an hour ago

James “I’m number one, Steph don’t count” Harden

SUPERSAMMICH6996 | Cavaliers

1 | an hour ago

And Jaylen Brown just said “I’m the best two-way player in the NBA. Wemby doesn’t count”.

Animefan420lol | NBA

10 | 11 hours ago

Wont happen. He is already an alien 👽

Individual_Access356

3 | 7 hours ago

The better question is how many on a row he’ll win and again as long as he is healthy enough he’ll prob just win this award every year for next 10 years.

dizzymidget44 | Pistons

91 | 12 hours ago

Nah. I won one my rookie year in live 05 straight out of high school

flexingtonsteele | LAL

17 | 7 hours ago

The greatest NBA game

AnthonyTyrael | Mavericks

51 | 13 hours ago

Should have won it during his rookie season.

FatLoserWithBO

58 | 13 hours ago

Can’t agree with you there, Rudy had better DWS, DRTG, and defensive fg% numbers, and by my eye test just understood the game and where to be on the court at a clearly higher level that comes with being a vet vs. a rookie

shanmustafa

29 | 10 hours ago

Spurs on the court that year without Wemby were like the worst defense in the league

Wolves were a top 1 defense with Rudy, top 2 defense without Rudy

which isn’t a knock on Rudy, but it does speak to the talent around him that made it easier

it’s not too dissimilar to offense, player with more spacing scoring more efficiently

players with better defenders around them can look even better

collax974

6 | 3 hours ago

which isn’t a knock on Rudy, but it does speak to the talent around him that made it easier

You also have to consider that the level of defense talent around him is partially thank to Gobert, he switched his team mentality to focus a lot more on defense and he is also designing the wolves defense with the coach (and this include defensive schemes for when he isn’t on the floor).

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1870fkl/this_past_summer_rudy_gobert_spent_64_hours/

DukeOfStuff_ | Timberwolves

3 | 5 hours ago

Spurs were also a horrible team which is taken into account

AnthonyTyrael | Mavericks

-56 | 13 hours ago

Rudy is constantly getting outplayed when it matters most. I don’t value his award the year we’re talking about (and generally most of his) as much as I do with Wemby, even in is rookie campaign.

Of course a vet has a better understanding. Would be bad if not. Though that doesn’t change much in this case.

HokageEzio | Knicks

36 | 12 hours ago

Trashing Rudy for how he plays “when it matters most” to praise a guy whose team went 22-60 and lost 18 games in a row is wild.

Impossible-Group8553

23 | 11 hours ago

The Gobert hate is so weird. He’s literally a 3 time dpoy and ppl act like he sucks because he had a bad matchup or 2 in the playoffs. Meanwhile Embiid dropped a career high 70 points on Wemby’s head and it doesn’t matter.

HokageEzio | Knicks

15 | 10 hours ago

4 time DPOY

Wonderful-Cover7256

1 | 5 hours ago

that’s fair but saying Embiid dropped 70 on wemby’s head like he was on him the entire, or even most of the game is really misleading

FatLoserWithBO

30 | 12 hours ago

I mean it’s a regular season award. Wemby also had appeared in zero playoffs up to that point (obviously) and didn’t make the playoffs that year either, so I don’t know how factoring in the playoffs makes a lot of sense. The numbers and eye test (for me) had Rudy as the better defensive player in the regular season. Wemby had more eye popping plays but he also got lost on defense more. Fine if you disagree but Rudy simply had a stronger argument IMO.

Vicentesteb | Timberwolves

21 | 12 hours ago

Like when?

Rudy has overwhelmingly won his minutes in the playoffs every single year.

You also say this as if Wemby has been great in the playoffs, he’s yet to play a minute.

7FromTheFuture | Timberwolves

4 | 8 hours ago

Luka hit ONE iso game winner on Gobert in the playoffs and the narrative shifted forever.

I swear some of you will do and say anything to discredit the guy. Sorry, but he’s still a great defender, having an elite scorer cook him in an iso play doesn’t invalidate the 4 DPOYs, and no, a fucking rookie shouldn’t have won DPOY over him.

If you want to clown him for his takes on COVID, the “prosecute/fauchi” thing and/or when he said “i wanna go back in time to find out who built the pyramids” then you can (and should, guy’s said and done some REALLY stupid shit), but be honest with yourself and say that.

wholebird36

1 | 3 hours ago

That narrative has been around long before the Luka shot 😭

xXEliteEater500Xx

0 | 8 hours ago

While Rudy was getting “outplayed” your boy was watching from his couch.

TheKajMahal | Pistons

41 | 13 hours ago

It’s wild that he’s already at the point where if he qualifies he’ll 100% win DPOY and the only way he doesn’t is he doesn’t play enough games.

Ornery_Penalty_5549 | Cavaliers

35 | 7 hours ago

Pre games requirement, he arguably would’ve won it last year too. Led the league in blocks despite only playing 46 games and it wasn’t even close

MstrNixx | Raptors

41 | 6 hours ago

Scottie is having a DPoY caliber season, no doubt about it.

If not for the existence of ~~Satoru Gojo~~ Victor Wembanyama

alfer1000

5 | 3 hours ago

Arent both chet and gobert way ahead of barnes like why even bring him up

Aeronova20 | Magic

4 | 3 hours ago

scottie had a good first half of the season but has fallen off the radar for it yeah

odds show both chet and gobert ahead of scottie for DPOY, and both trail Wemby by a decent margin

showtime_2k

31 | 7 hours ago

Wemby should have won DPOY his rookie season and last season, but he was ruled out with a blood clot. He’s quite simply the best defender to ever play the game. I know it’s early to be saying that, but he’s absolutely unreal with how impactful his defense is. I’m not even talking just counting stats like steals and blocks. The amount of shots he alters and just the way opposing players change their game is staggering.

sadduckfan | Lakers

3 | 3 hours ago

I’m not ready to say he’s absolutely better than Hakeem yet but that is pretty much the only argument

Snapphane88 | Finland

-13 | 6 hours ago

You think he should have won as lottery team, 13th seed in the west, winning 34 games?

Outside-Way-3924 | Spurs

19 | 6 hours ago

Yes lol, not particularly close either.

Snapphane88 | Finland

-3 | 6 hours ago

Well you need to take it up with the NBA because they’ve never given out any awards like this, except ROY for obvious reasons, and hardly anyone would agree with you. It’s always been a mix of games played, wins and box score stats. I got the season wrong as well, he didn’t win 34 games, but rather 22, 14th seed. I guess Wemby was closest we’ve come to seeing it happen.

I think it’s a very silly personally to have a bottom of the barrel tanking team winning best-in-league awards, but you’re of course entitled to your opinion.

Outside-Way-3924 | Spurs

8 | 6 hours ago

I was talking about last season, when Spurs finished with 34 wins and the 13th seed like you had just mentioned. Pre-injury, Wemby was the OVERWHELMING betting odds favorite, at -500 if I remember correctly. His rookie season, I agree Gobert winning the award was deserved.

Jack_The_Sparrow_ | Warriors

26 | 10 hours ago

He should have just come into the league once he hit puberty/7ft

TehShoK | Bulls

25 | 7 hours ago

I honestly don’t see how he doesn’t win it.

and-you-know-it | Mavericks

20 | 7 hours ago

Should’ve won last year.

shangalang69 | Raptors

20 | 13 hours ago

if he qualified for last year and this year, he’d have two DPOYs already lmao

lbh02 | Raptors

19 | 6 hours ago

What’s more insane to me is that even if he somehow misses out on it this year and wins it next year, he might STILL have the record. Dwight has the record at 23 years and 128 days. Wemby will be 23 years and 128 days on May 12, 2027, so if DPOY is awarded before then he’ll still have the record lol

jjkm7 | Raptors

11 | 6 hours ago

If Wemby didn’t get injured last year he 100% would’ve won it and I think that would be a truly unbeatable record. You could’ve made an argument for it his rookie year too but I don’t think voters wanted to give it to a rookie

jjkm7 | Raptors

6 | 6 hours ago

If anyone was wondering like I was, if he gets injured and the award goes to the second frontrunner, Chet would be about 7 months older than Dwight was when he won it at 23 years and 128 days old

OGPiggySmalls

3 | 5 hours ago

When*

Ok-Significance2033 | Hawks

1 | 5 hours ago

Edy Tavares this easily could have been you on the Hawks smh

GGTae | Spurs

-6 | 13 hours ago

make it double and give MVP too

If Wemby wins DPOY this season, he will be the youngest to win the award in NBA history