The NBA Best Defensive Player Award was established in the 1982-1983 season, and has been held for a total of 38 sessions so far, with the center winning the most awards, followed by the big forward, the guard players have the fewest number of awards, they can't block the opponent's shots as often as the inside players, it is difficult to impress the audience on the defensive end, and the defensive data is difficult to compare with the inside players, so it is difficult to win the award, but there are still five players who have done it.
First place: Sydney - Moncliffe
Height 1.93 m, 86 kg, Moncliffe played as a shooting guard and was selected by the Bucks with the 5th pick in the first round in 1979. He is a good offensive and defensive point guard, who has averaged 20+ points per game for 4 consecutive seasons, and has been selected to the Best Team 1 team once, the Best Team 2 team 2 times, the Best Defensive Team 1 team 4 times, and the Best Defensive Team 2 team 1 time.
He won the Best Defensive Player Award for two consecutive years, the first time in the 1982-1983 season, when he became the first player in NBA history to win the Best Defensive Player Award, and in the second season, he continued to win the award again, and he also became the only defender to win the best defensive player twice.
Second place: Elvin Robertson
Robertson is 1.91 meters tall, weighs 84 kilograms, is also a shooting guard, he was selected by the Spurs with the 7th pick in the first round in 1984, he is the same year as Jordan, Olajuwon, Barkley, Stockton and other people, Robertson although these four achievements are high, but also with excellent defensive ability to be selected four All-Stars.
Robertson excelled at steals, averaging 2.71 steals per game in his career, averaging more than three steals per game in three seasons in his career, being voted the king of steals three times, and having a four-double stat of 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals. He averaged 3.67 steals per game in the 1985–1986 season and won the Award for Best Defensive Player.
Third place: Michael Cooper
Cooper is 1.96 meters tall, weighs 77 kilograms, plays as a shooting guard, he is a defensive player, only one season of his career averaging double-doubles per game, but with excellent defensive ability in the NBA for 12 seasons.
Cooper's defensive stats are also not good, averaging no more than 2 steals per game, averaging 1.18 steals per game in his career, and does not look like a top defender, but he has done a very good job of restricting opponents' shots and restricting opponents from receiving the ball, which is difficult to reflect in the data, he has been selected to the best defensive team five times, and won the Best Defensive Player Award in the 1986-1987 season.
Fourth place: Michael Jordan
When it comes to attacking and defending well, how can it be less than Jordan. Jordan, who is 1.98 meters tall, plays a shooting guard who has won 10 points on the offensive end, making him the most scoring champion in NBA history, and he is also one of the top outside defenders.
Jordan has averaged more than 2 steals per game in 10 seasons in his 15-year career, averaging 3.16 steals per game in the highest season, and he has been elected the king of steals three times. In the 1987-1988 season, Jordan was extreme in both offensive and defensive ends, scoring 35 points per game on the offensive end to become the scoring champion, contributing 3.16 steals per game on the defensive end to become the best defensive player, and becoming the only person in NBA history to become a scoring champion and the best defensive player in the same season.
Fifth place: Gary Payton
After Jordan won the Award for Best Defensive Player, the award was dominated by interior players until Payton won in the 1995-1996 season, which broke the monopoly of interior players. Payton averaged 2.85 steals per game that season, winning the Best Defensive Player Award, becoming the only point guard in NBA history to win the award.
Peyton is 1.93 meters tall, weighs 86 kilograms, plays as a point guard, he is the best defensive point guard in NBA history, has won the Best Defensive Player Award once, has been selected for the Best Defensive Player Award 9 times, even against the "basketball god" Michael Jordan, Payton has an excellent performance, saying that he is the ceiling of the defensive level of point guard is not exaggerated.
After Payton, there have been no defender players (quarterbacks and point guards) who have won the Best Defensive Player Award, the most awarded is still the center player, Artest, Leonard has won the award as a big forward, the alphabet brother has won the award as a big forward, the rest are center players to take, no longer see the figure of the guard player, 76ers point guard Sai Bull has the top steal ability, can he become the sixth defender player to receive DPOY in the future?