horseshoeoverlook | Boston Celtics

153 | a day ago

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Wemby became the first unanimous DPoY

LarBrd33

144 | a day ago

Feels like we should always point out this award didn’t exist until 82-83 or no doubt Russell would have several unanimous selections

horseshoeoverlook | Boston Celtics

33 | a day ago

Yeah. But he made the first All-Defense team in 1969

solodolo1397 | Semi Ojeleye

17 | a day ago

Jalen Duren?? Was it a Detroit reporter?

LarBrd33

79 | a day ago

So he’s a lock for all-defense, but might get stuck 2nd team since they made that award positionless in 2023

horseshoeoverlook | Boston Celtics

19 | a day ago

Yep, likely second team

JMoon33 | ET Logo

14 | a day ago

Looking at the top 5 I’m not angry about it, they’re all deserving imo. Thompson might be a bit high, but maybe not, I’m not an expert.

iamgarron

3 | a day ago

Yeh I think the issue with Ausar is of the top guys he plays by far the least, and it’s difficult to put someone as a premier defender when they can only be on the floor in the mid-20s in minutes.

jeezum_crow

2 | 10 hours ago

Should be over Chet. To me, voters should consider a players ability relative to their position. DWhite is like 3 standard deviations better at defense than the average guard, way more than Chet compared to an average center, even if in a vacuum Chet provides “better” defense.

It’s easier to build an elite defense starting with White than Chet because he’s more rare.

Lucky13200 | Whatever it takes as long as it takes

3 | a day ago

Best guess he gets 1st team. Voters dont like to put too many centers on 1st team. But will do a center only DYOP ballet. So solid chance he gets 1st team over Gobert.

CMYGQZ | Smart

1 | a day ago

they might just sneak Ausar or Barnes as a guard even if they kept it position. That’s how Dillon Brooks got his All-Defensive, when Ja and Bane are the starting backcourt and he got in as a guard.

Doc-DRD

26 | a day ago

D White has such an unbelievably high basketball IQ. He’s so much fun to watch playing defense!!

Technical-Mix-9464

6 | a day ago

The amount of blocks he gets is incredible for a player his size

SquimJim

19 | a day ago

So best defensive guard in the NBA and likely 2nd Team All-Defense

Coach_Seven

10 | a day ago

The rest of the league hates the Celtics. No surprises here

Alarmed_Hearing_1719

9 | a day ago

This is a compliment to dwhite imo, best defensive guard in league

TOMA_TAN | Open for the Stock Exchange

11 | a day ago

Dwhite deserves first team man, he’s the anchor of our defense as a guard

rveets1416 | DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS

7 | a day ago

It’s crazy to me that OKC has 3 ridiculous guard/wing defenders in Dort, Caruso, and JDub and none of them got votes (probs due to injury) and yet they still have 2 guys that got DPOY votes.

And that’s not including SGA and IHart who are both very good defenders.

raycyca82

3 | a day ago

I still feel it’s odd that some of the vote getters can’t play perimeter defense….like Golbert for instance. Not to take anything away from what he can do in the paint, but it shows the award is pretty skewed. Yes centers have a large defensive impact and that could even be the majority of the ranking, but it feels like they would have to be otherworldly in the paint that the perimeter defense still provides enough the combined total is above other more versitle players.
But as it goes, to be expected. Luka literally doesn’t play defense and still gets MVP votes.

Soshi101 | Live by the Smart, Die by the Smart

3 | a day ago

I think it’s well established that Gobert is otherworldly in the paint lol. As unfair as it is, a good paint defender and a poor perimeter defender is still an exponentially better defense than the opposite.

Eisenhorn76 | 11-1 is far superior to 4-6 in the Finals

2 | a day ago

I don’t understand, if Derrick’s the leading vote-getter at guard why he wouldn’t be first-team all-defense. Yet all I hear from everyone is they have two other guys at guard on the first team.

This is like that year (2012-2013) that Marc Gasol won DPOY but he was 2ND team all-defense. It’s just stupid. How is the DPOY not a selection for 1ST team all-defense? That should be an automatic.

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Eisenhorn76 | 11-1 is far superior to 4-6 in the Finals

1 | a day ago

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JasonTatumisGod | I’m jealous of Embiid, I wish Al was my dad too

2 | a day ago

What’s even crazier is that Chandler and Noah BOTH finished ahead of him and made first team all defensive, even if it was positionless Gasol still would’ve only been 2nd team

Eisenhorn76 | 11-1 is far superior to 4-6 in the Finals

2 | a day ago

Yeah. It’s silly. I mean, think about it: the awards that year were basically saying that the Defensive Player of the Year wasn’t among the league’s 5 best defenders that year, including two guys that played his position.

How does that make sense?

It’s a stupid voting quirk. It should be that if someone is the DPOY, they’re automatically on 1st team all-defense — and if he’s not a 1st team from the voting, then he knocks off either the lowest voted person eligible for first team or the lowest voted 1st team vote-getter who plays his position.

Consistent-Poetry306

1 | 18 hours ago

The best stat I saw on DWhite was the top blocks for players under 6’7” DWhite has 98 and the next closest was like 60. That’s the power of his intuition and timing! Let’s go Cs! Sweep Philly into a cheesesteak grease tray!

[Snow] Derrick White was the leading vote-getter among NBA guards for Defensive Player of the Year. He finished 6th overall in the voting, earning two second-place votes and seven third-place votes.

Wemby became the first unanimous DPoY