With award frontrunner Victor Wembanyama sidelined for the season, the chase for the Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy is wide open.

Ace Baldwin Jr. was named the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season, while he and Yanic Konan ...

Gilgeous Alexander was the only Thunder player to receive votes for Defensive Player of the Year last season, finishing ...

Creighton center Ryan Kalkbrenner was selected Big East Defensive Player of the Year for the fourth straight season on Monday ...

Can Jaren Jackson Jr. win his second DPOY in three years? Where do all the NBA awards stand as March approaches?

With Victor Wembanyama and Jaren Jackson Jr. injured, Evan Mobley can make Cavs history by winning the Defensive Player of ...

Penn State senior Ace Baldwin Jr. defended his Big Ten defensive player-of-the-year award this season, as he led the ...

Also near the top of the board is Atlanta's Dyson Daniels, who leads the NBA with more than three ... Who has won the most Defensive Player of the Year awards? Ben Wallace and Dikembe Mutombo ...

The Atlanta Hawks are 30-34 entering tonight's matchup with the Philadelphia 76ers, having won two in a row and three of ...

Although he's deserved it in years past, OKC Thunder wing Lu Dort will finally earn an NBA All-Defensive Team honor this ...

The LA Clippers have a Defensive Player of the Year candidate, and it's Ivica Zubac. Although he didn't make the All-Star ...

UAB basketball star Yaxel Lendeborg is the American Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight ...