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The NBA has announced the voting results for the 2013-14 Defensive Player of the Year award with two Golden State Warriors finishing in the top 10, adding yet another accomplishment to a historic season.
The Warriors have never had two players get DPOY votes in the same year, let alone two guys finish among the top 10.
— Rusty Simmons (@Rusty_SFChron) April 21, 2014
As many expected, Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah won the award while Warriors wing Andre Iguodala finished fifth and Andrew Bogut finished 10th as listed in a NBA release.
|
PLAYER |
TEAM |
1st Place (5 Pts) |
2nd Place (3 Pts) |
3rd Place (1 pt) |
Total Points |
|
Joakim Noah |
Chicago |
100 |
17 |
4 |
555 |
|
Roy Hibbert |
Indiana |
8 |
36 |
18 |
166 |
|
DeAndre Jordan |
L.A. Clippers |
8 |
23 |
12 |
121 |
|
Serge Ibaka |
Oklahoma City |
2 |
17 |
18 |
79 |
|
Andre Iguodala |
Golden State |
1 |
7 |
21 |
47 |
|
LeBron James |
Miami |
2 |
5 |
6 |
31 |
|
Paul George |
Indiana |
0 |
5 |
15 |
30 |
|
Anthony Davis |
New Orleans |
1 |
4 |
8 |
25 |
|
Dwight Howard |
Houston |
1 |
3 |
11 |
25 |
|
Andrew Bogut |
Golden State |
1 |
1 |
3 |
11 |
|
Kawhi Leonard |
San Antonio |
0 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
|
P.J. Tucker |
Phoenix |
1 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
|
Tim Duncan |
San Antonio |
0 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
|
Chris Paul |
L.A. Clippers |
0 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
|
Trevor Ariza |
Washington |
0 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
The top 15 candidates in 2013-14 Defensive Player of the Year voting.
Grantland's Zach Lowe described a challenge that both Iguodala and Bogut might have faced in the voting in his analysis of post-season awards last week.
Availability delivers the third spot to George. Other players have been better, especially Iguodala and Bogut in Golden State. But George has played 800 more minutes than Iguodala and about 1,100 more than Bogut, and he has been a rock on the wing for Indiana - slithering through picks on and off the ball, closing out like a demon, and poking away steals.
Lowe has also written without much explanation that Iguodala should make the NBA All-Defensive first team and really there shouldn't be much explanation needed for that: he led the league in plus/minus this season (+9.0), per NBA.com/stats.
Bogut actually played more games (67) than Iguodala (63) this season, but even 10th place reflects the defensive value that most of us felt would doom the Warriors in their first round playoff series with the L.A. Clippers: his impact this season was undeniable, ranking second in the league in both defensive rating (96.3) and defensive rebounding percentage (29.7%), according to Basketball-Reference.com.
Warriors fans are still left to imagine how much better the Warriors would've been having the inside-outside defensive presence of those two on the court for 82 games.
Notably, Clippers center DeAndre Jordan finished third in the voting, but having a top three DPoY candidate wasn't exactly a formula for success this weekend: Noah, Jordan, and second place Roy Hibbert were all members of higher seeds that lost their first game of the playoffs this past weekend, something not lost on Washington, D.C. media.
Joakim Noah might be the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, but Nene was the one who dominated on Sunday night: http://t.co/12MTfiUGtZ
— CSN Wizards (@CSNWizards) April 21, 2014
For more on a first round clash of DPoY candidates, check out our Warriors-Clippers playoff series section.