Evan Mobley won the prize for the defensive player for 2024-25 NBA, the League announced on Thursday. Mobley is the first Cleveland Cavalier to win the award and, at 23, is the second largest player to have won, following only Dwight Howard, who beat him a few months in 2008. Now, Mobley gives the riders the first of what they hope to be many trophies this spring.
Mobley received 35 votes from first place, 10 more than the Dyson Dyson Dyson. The Draymond Green of the Warriors arrived third, while the Luguentz Dort of Thunder, amen Thompson of the Rockets, Ivica Zubac and Giannis Antetokoun des Clippers and Giannis Antetokounmpo also received the votes of first place.
His trip to win it, however, was certainly not traditional. During most of the season, Victor Wembanyama was the favorite on the run to win the defensive player of the year. The title recruit of the year led the League in total blocks despite only 46 games, but the deep venous thrombosis which ended its season also made it ineligible for the awards. This created a large open field for a price that most of which had supposed was a lock.
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Two favorites quickly emerged: Draymond Green Andevan Mobley. The chances first favored Mobley, while the 2023 finalist in Jaren Jackson Jr. had led the Defense for the seeded n ° 1 in the Eastern Conference, and his constant excellence reflected it. Mobley is the rare great man who can both protect the edge and switch to the perimeter with capacity, and this gave Cleveland remarkable flexibility in the way he has concocted plans and play diagrams.
Green came a little later. On the day of the trade deadline, the Warriors were defense n ° 10 of the NBA and were less than 0,500. But once Jimmy Butler went on board, the Warriors stayed in the photo of the championship. Since the deadline, the Warriors have had the best defense of the NBA and they finished the season at 23-9. Green played in the center for most of this section, both protecting the edge and quarter of the defense of Golden State line.
In the end, Mobley has ahead of the green to win the award, and it is a good thing he has done given the way the land should be in the years to come. We hope Wembanyama will come back to full power next season. Cooper Flagg arrives, and several young people from caliber all defense, such as Amen Thompson, his brother Ausar Thompson and Dyson Daniels, are also increasing. It was Mobley’s best chance to win a well -deserved trophy, and now he did.
