Marcus Smart is your 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the first guard to win the award since the 1995-96 winner, Gary Payton. Marcus Smart with back-to-back stellar defensive ...

In 2022, when Marcus Smart—then with the Boston Celtics and now with the Memphis Grizzlies—was chosen as the NBA Defensive Player of the Year, it was the first time a backcourt player had won ...

Marcus Smart is revealed to be the 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year at Celtics practice with a special guest appearance by Gary Payton.

Marcus Smart sees no reason why the Grizzlies ... last season behind the play of Jaren Jackson Jr., the 2023 Defensive Player of the Year, but Smart won that same award in 2022.

In what was perhaps the most apropos revelation of an NBA end-of-season award in the history of the league's Kia Defensive ... Player of the Year (DPOY) award, Boston Celtics veteran point guard ...

Memphis has a total of four players in the Top 100— Ja Morant, Desmond Bane, Jaren Jackson Jr ., and Marcus Smart, but what ...

MIAMI, FLORIDA - MAY 29: Head Coach Ime Udoka of the Boston Celtics talks with Marcus Smart ... the NBA Finals. Smart won the league’s Defensive Player of the Year award that year and has ...

Every NBA season, a handful of teams defy expectations and make a significant jump in the standings. This year, the Western ...

Aug. 6—BEMIDJI — Bemidji State football defensive end Marcus Hansen has been named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference's 2024 Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. Additionally, the ...

His impact on the defensive end is tremendous, emerging as an elite defender right out of the gate. His progression each year begs the ... also going up against Marcus Smart, Jaren Jackson Jr ...

A former NBA champion, multi-time All-Star and Miami Heat alum is shocked Bam still hasn't won an NBA Defensive Player of the ...

"You play D the way it's supposed to (be played)," Gary Payton Sr. said to the Celtics guard in 2022. In 2022, when Marcus Smart—then with the Boston Celtics and now with the Memphis Grizzlies ...