BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

167 | 3 hours ago

Also I had no idea this was an actual award

Massive-Toe3714 | France

43 | 3 hours ago

I only know because my flatmate is a Celtics fan

I_Set_3_Alarms | Celtics

23 | 3 hours ago

Yeah Marcus Smart was like 7 of the 9 winners or something at one point lol

prosocialbehavior | Lakers

24 | 2 hours ago

2025-26 — Moussa Diabaté, Charlotte Hornets

2024-25 — Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors

2023-24 — Alex Caruso, Chicago Bulls

2022-23 — Marcus Smart, Boston Celtics

2021-22 — Marcus Smart, Boston Celtics

2020-21 — Thaddeus Young, Chicago Bulls

2019-20 — Montrezl Harrell, LA Clippers

2018-19 — Marcus Smart, Boston Celtics

2017-18 — Amir Johnson, Philadelphia 76ers

2016-17 —Patrick Beverley, Houston Rockets

rutgersftw | 76ers

2 | 37 minutes ago

Sixers legend Amir Johnson!

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

5 | 2 hours ago

LOL really?

Massive-Toe3714 | France

17 | 2 hours ago

3 but definitely feels way more

I_Set_3_Alarms | Celtics

6 | 2 hours ago

Oh yeah definitely. The stat my brain half remembered was probably “winner of 3 of the last 5”

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

1 | 2 hours ago

ah

YizWasHere | Hornets

20 | 3 hours ago

Moussa so good they just had to invent a new award for him

BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

8 | 3 hours ago

I was surprised to find this out but this is the 10th year they’ve given this award

Mike_with_Wings | Magic

1 | 7 minutes ago

Sweet username

ImDisruptive | Hornets

39 | 3 hours ago

The Moose is Loose!!!

LooseMooseCruz

1 | 4 minutes ago

sure is

kirito6521 | Timberwolves

34 | 3 hours ago

There’s a hustle award?

MrFishAndLoaves | Pelicans

59 | 3 hours ago

Should’ve gone to Giannis for his Kalshi hustle

Safe-Union-4600 | Lakers

15 | 3 hours ago

or kawhi

palamunintillnow

7 | 3 hours ago

and it’s the only award that is base on stats.

deemerritt | Hornets

32 | 3 hours ago

If we start him two weeks earlier we probably make the playoffs lol

New_Essay_4869 | Thunder

23 | 3 hours ago

The award everyone has veen waiting for

Electronic_Gold_3666 | Knicks

2 | 3 hours ago

Edge of my seat baby

nemo2023 | Pistons

15 | 3 hours ago

You gotta give this award to Beef Stew the way he hustled off the bench to confront Bridges in the CHA-DET brawl

Sammyd1108 | Hornets

26 | 3 hours ago

Diabate was hustling just as much trying to run Duren down lol.

YSLAnunoby | Raptors

1 | an hour ago

If Moose was as sturdy as Stew is I don’t think they’d have been able to stop him. They’re lucky the dude is kinda lanky

KKamis | Hornets

7 | 3 hours ago

I love Beef Stew. I was waiting for him to show up when stuff started happening. Always gunna have my respect because of him trying to fight Lebron his rookie year lol. Scared of nothing.

Starveiled | Hornets

3 | an hour ago

It was easily the best Royal Rumble on an NBA court this year.

Isthismynextusername | Timberwolves

5 | 3 hours ago

Was critical for the 2nd half Hornets resurgence but it’ll do him good to develop a midrange/3pt game and occasionally be a small-ball center. Struggled in the paint against the Magic so it’s difficult to see him to be a primary 5 in the postseason

Ok-Protection2513 | Hornets

10 | 3 hours ago

He played injured that game and spacing him out of the paint weakens the thing hes elite at. And wdym be a small ball center lmao hes already a normal ball center??

Edit: also he was 3-0 as a starter against the Magic in the regular season lol.

YSLAnunoby | Raptors

2 | 44 minutes ago

Dude has a much different image of what WCJ and the other magic bigs do than what they actually do.

Ok-Protection2513 | Hornets

1 | 9 minutes ago

Yeah like I dont think that at this moment Moussa can be a good starter in the postseason but he completely demolished the Magic’s big rotation when he was fully healthy lol. He held them to 3 total rebounds and drew 6 loose ball fouls on them on March 22nd. The injury and physicality in the play-in game just made him look much worse than usual.

Isthismynextusername | Timberwolves

-2 | 3 hours ago

All teams that usually make past the 2nd round have centers that are 7’1”-7’3”+ to be able to secure the critical possessions at the end of the game. Look at Jokic, Wemby, Queta, Chet, KAT/Mitch, Jarrett Allen, Goga, Gobert, and even Ayton. The teams struggling in those scenarios are Hawks, Rockets (after Adams got hurt), Pistons, and Suns. He knows how to play the position with a lot of energy but his height/reach might be too much to overcome.

Cubelar | Hornets

7 | 3 hours ago

I dont disagree that hornets need a good big option to pair with Moussa but there are some bad example in this post. Goga barely plays, Allen regularly gets played off the court and in the playoffs his minutes take a drastic hit because he can’t play playoff minutes next to Mobley effectively

YSLAnunoby | Raptors

1 | an hour ago

Jarrett Allen is 6’9 and has been a playoff dropper on the boards because he’s skinny and gets pushed around so not really someone to use as an example as someone securing critical possessions

Cubelar | Hornets

10 | 3 hours ago

Im fine with people saying we could use a very good center and have moussa be a 20 mpg backup. But hes not a small ball center, small ball and undersized arent the same thing. Hes just a regular undersized center with hyper switchability as noted in this article. Only Bam switched more on pnrs defensively.

BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

6 | 3 hours ago

I wouldn’t get my hopes up of any kind of jump shot. I think he’s ideally a 3rd big that can slot next to a stretch big with size. Moose’s perimeter D is good enough that he can D up 4s instead of 5s if he needs to.

deemerritt | Hornets

4 | 3 hours ago

He pulled his hamstring vs the heat and gutted it out. We need a better option than Kalkbrenner though. When you look at our lineup data the two big outliers are Ball and Diabate. What he does was critical to our success.

Cubelar | Hornets

5 | 3 hours ago

It wasnt a hammy, he hurt his hip

deemerritt | Hornets

1 | 3 hours ago

Ah it looked like a hammy vs the heat.

geronimosocrates

-3 | 3 hours ago

Not gonna happen. I think it’s obvious that Charlotte needs to identify a real anchor and let Diabate be an energy guy on the bench. That’s what he is.

deemerritt | Hornets

2 | 3 hours ago

Statistically he was probably our second best starter. That might be because our other centers are ass though

Isthismynextusername | Timberwolves

0 | 3 hours ago

…that’s what I’m saying

fuzzythinker | Nuggets

3 | 3 hours ago

Good award to recognize high energy winning players that aren’t stars yet.
They should name it the Smart Hustle Award.
More catchy and to recognize Smart who is the only multiple winner winning it 3 out of 10 times!

FrankSamples | NBA

2 | 3 hours ago

Kind of feel like the league is giving them a token award after ROY after none of their players making the all star game, on losing Roy and lamelo not making an all NBA team.

Krimson_F | Hornets

6 | 3 hours ago

has all nba teams been revealed yet or are you from the distant future?

BetweenTheBuzzAndMe | Charlotte Bobcats

1 | 3 hours ago

Melo isn’t making all NBA. He should, but he won’t.

Cubelar | Hornets

5 | 3 hours ago

Its based on a statistical model. Nba isnt giving anything

Sammyd1108 | Hornets

2 | 3 hours ago

Melo never had any shot at making All-NBA because he was too inefficient even though he was contributing the most to our winning.

Not_Different | Hornets

1 | an hour ago

i get the idea but Moose is definitely not a token winner. Dude was an absolute menace all year

Electronic_Gold_3666 | Knicks

2 | 3 hours ago

“Not that talented” said a hornets fan?

deemerritt | Hornets

11 | 3 hours ago

Id fight that fan fr

megaman_cdx | Hornets

2 | 2 hours ago

Read OP’s message. He’s the traitor.

prosocialbehavior | Lakers

2 | 2 hours ago

As a Michigan fan, I am offended you think he came out of nowhere haha. Dude had that motor in college too. It was so fun having him on your team. Also he is very talented wtf haha.

mostdope28

1 | 2 hours ago

It’s a shame he only stayed 1 year

prosocialbehavior | Lakers

1 | 2 hours ago

Yeah with NIL nowadays he definitely could have stayed another year. I think back then international kids still couldn’t get NIL though.

testiculardescendant | Knicks

0 | 3 hours ago

The fact Josh hart has never won this tells me the award is a sham award.

Dude straight up plays like he’s on crack.

Cubelar | Hornets

4 | 3 hours ago

Its based on a statistical model. Josh was 5th this year

palamunintillnow

2 | 2 hours ago

it is still funny on how an award about hustle is the only one purely base on stats.

loegare | Knicks

1 | 9 minutes ago

how do you stat out hustle? hustle is literally about effort and stats are about impact

gloomygl | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

Next award to be announced : Shoelace of the year

vinceswish

1 | 2 hours ago

Like someone else mentioned already I would have given a co award for Giannis and Kawhi for their side hustle.

Headlesshorsman02 | Thunder

1 | an hour ago

Didn’t even know this existed lol 😂

Starveiled | Hornets

1 | an hour ago

Didn’t know this was an award but he deserves it for sure!

jurassicperiod | Magic

1 | an hour ago

Today I learned the NBA has a “Hustle Award”

Sure_Ad8093

1 | 33 minutes ago

I thought Luka was a lock.

dkleckner88 | Timberwolves

1 | 24 minutes ago

Mooooooooooosa!!

hoodfavhoops | Warriors

1 | 20 minutes ago

THE MOOSE IS LOOSE

MustafaZeDong9

0 | 2 hours ago

Theyre gonna give the most thorough ass-wiper award and 35 more meaningless accolades before they announce the mvp for fuck’s sake.

90Valentine

-2 | 3 hours ago

Where the coaches son award

Hornets’ Moussa Diabaté named 2025-26 Kia NBA Hustle Award winner