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Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert reacts after a Sacramento Kings basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 1, 2024, in Minneapolis. Rudy Gobert wins record-tying 4th Defensive Player of the Year award, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Abbie Parr, AP Photo/File

FILE -Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert reacts after a Sacramento Kings basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 1, 2024, in Minneapolis. Rudy Gobert wins record-tying 4th Defensive Player of the Year award, Tuesday, May 7, 2024 (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)

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<h3>Victor Wembanyama finishes 2nd</h3><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1715155289490AP24128831670600.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert reacts after a Sacramento Kings basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 1, 2024, in Minneapolis. Rudy Gobert wins record-tying 4th Defensive Player of the Year award, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Abbie Parr, AP Photo/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert reacts after a Sacramento Kings basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, March 1, 2024, in Minneapolis. <em>Abbie Parr, AP Photo/File</em></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rudy Gobert made some history. Victor Wembanyama nearly did.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gobert, the Minnesota center, was announced Tuesday as the NBA&#x27;s Defensive Player of the Year for a record-tying fourth time — joining Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It was the fifth time in the last 11 seasons that a French center won defensive player of the year — and it sure seems like Wembanyama will add to that country&#x27;s total before long. The San Antonio rookie center, announced Monday as the league&#x27;s Rookie of the Year, was second in the voting and fell one spot short of being the first player to win the DPOY trophy in Year 1 of his NBA career.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Viva la France, indeed. Joakim Noah became the first Frenchman to win DPOY when he was the overwhelming choice in 2014, and Gobert now has the trophies for 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2024.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;It&#x27;s great teamwork,&quot; Gobert, the best defender on a Timberwolves team that had the best defense in the NBA this season, said on TNT during the award&#x27;s announcement. &quot;We love to get individual awards and all these things, and it&#x27;s great but you can&#x27;t do it alone.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It&#x27;s the ninth time in Gobert&#x27;s 11 seasons that he has been seventh or better in the DPOY voting. He was second in 2017, third in 2020 and 2022, fifth in 2015 and seventh in 2016 — and picked up this trophy one day after missing a playoff game for the birth of his son, Romeo.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/5/edwards-hits-43-to-spark-t-wolves-over-denver-in-nba-playoffs-1252"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/5/edwards-hits-43-to-spark-t-wolves-over-denver-in-nba-playoffs-1252">READ: Edwards hits 43 to spark T-Wolves over Denver in Game 1</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/7/edwards-towns-lead-wolves-to-2-0-series-lead-over-nuggets-1306"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/7/edwards-towns-lead-wolves-to-2-0-series-lead-over-nuggets-1306">READ: Edwards, Towns lead Wolves&#x27; 106-80 blitz of Murray, Jokic for 2-0 series lead over champion Nuggets</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;A lot of blessings,&quot; Gobert said. &quot;Just really grateful.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZyCO0Kpzy6I?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Miami center Bam Adebayo was third, his best-ever finish in the voting. He was fourth in 2021 and 2022, along with fifth in 2020 and 2023.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Adebayo — an Olympic gold medalist from 2021 and part of the team that USA Basketball has picked to play in the Paris Games this summer — is the only player to have been in the top five of the DPOY balloting in each of the last five years. He&#x27;s gotten at least one first-place vote in all five of those seasons, the only player in the NBA who can say that.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gobert was second in rebounds per game and sixth in blocked shots per game — a category where Wembanyama led the league. The Timberwolves led the NBA this season in fewest points allowed per game. They also held opponents to the lowest field-goal percentage.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;This year, training camp, we came Day 1 and said we wanted to be a top defense in this league,&quot; Gobert said. &quot;Every guy has bought in. Everyone has put in the work every single day, and now we&#x27;re here with one goal in mind, to try to get this championship.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gobert got 72 first-place votes and 97 votes overall from the panel of 99 writers and broadcasters who cover the league and cast ballots when the regular season ended for various awards.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wembanyama got 19 first-place votes and appeared on 81 ballots. Adebayo got three first-place votes but held off the Los Angeles Lakers&#x27; Anthony Davis — who had four first-place nods but finished fourth. New Orleans&#x27; Herb Jones was fifth and Boston&#x27;s Jrue Holiday, who got the other first-place vote, was sixth.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/7/victor-wembanyama-named-nba-rookie-of-the-year-after-a-record-setting-season-1057"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/7/victor-wembanyama-named-nba-rookie-of-the-year-after-a-record-setting-season-1057">READ: Victor Wembanyama named NBA Rookie of the Year after a record-setting season</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gobert&#x27;s win adds to an awards haul this year for the Timberwolves, who are having their best season in 20 years. Minnesota hadn&#x27;t won a playoff series since 2004 before knocking off Phoenix in Round 1, and now has a 2-0 lead — both wins on the road — over defending NBA champion Denver in the Western Conference semifinals.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;Great things take time,&quot; Gobert said. &quot;You guys all know winning is not something that happens overnight. You need to overcome adversity, you need to go through some ups and downs as a group.&quot;</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other major Timberwolves award finishes this spring saw Naz Reid winning Sixth Man of the Year,Mike Conley winning the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year award, Chris Finch finishing third in the Coach of the Year voting (won by Oklahoma City&#x27;s Mark Daigneault ), Tim Connelly placing third in the Executive of the Year race (won by Boston&#x27;s Brad Stevens ) and Anthony Edwards finishing eighth in the Clutch Player of the Year balloting (won by Golden State&#x27;s Stephen Curry ).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The winner of the NBA&#x27;s top individual award will be announced Wednesday.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Three international players — Denver&#x27;s Nikola Jokic, Oklahoma City&#x27;s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dallas&#x27; Luka Doncic — are the finalists for MVP. Jokic is seeking what would be his third MVP award in the last four seasons, while Gilgeous-Alexander and Doncic are aiming to win the trophy for the first time.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Philadelphia&#x27;s Joel Embiid, last season&#x27;s MVP, was not eligible this year because of the league&#x27;s new policy requiring players to appear in a certain number of games before being considered for most awards.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other NBA honors yet to be announced are the All-Defensive, All-Rookie and All-NBA teams — which won&#x27;t be revealed before next week — and the Social Justice Award winner, which will be announced Thursday.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/6/nuggets-know-physicality-stopping-edwards-supporting-cast-are-keys-to-tying-series-with-wolves-1208"></a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/5/6/nuggets-know-physicality-stopping-edwards-supporting-cast-are-keys-to-tying-series-with-wolves-1208">READ: Nuggets know physicality, stopping Edwards&#x27; supporting cast are keys to tying series with Wolves</a></span></div>

<p>Rudy Gobert, the Minnesota center, was announced Tuesday as the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year for a record-tying fourth time.</p>

Rudy Gobert, the Minnesota center, was announced Tuesday as the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year for a record-tying fourth time.

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Published May 08, 2024 04:05 PM PHT

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