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DeAndre Jordan named Best Defender at NBA Players' Awards
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Jul. 22, 2015 11:07 a.m. ET
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The inaugural NBA Players' Awards were held on Tuesday, which meant it was a good night for DeAndre Jordan, who was named Best Defender at the show in Las Vegas.
From Melissa Rohlin at the L.A. Times:
Jordan finished third in Defensive Player of the Year voting for the second consecutive year this past season. He did, however, make his first appearance on the All-Defense First-Team.
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(h/t L.A. Times.)
Photo Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea
Jordan was chosen by his fellow NBA players over Tony Allen, Anthony Davis and Jimmy Butler. Kawhi Leonard and Draymond Green, who came in first and second, respectively, for the league's defensive player of the year award -- which is voted on by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters -- weren't even finalists in the players' votes.
Clippers Coach Doc Rivers had said in March that if Jordan didn't win the defensive player of the year award, there needed to be an investigation. The center ended up coming in third for the honor.
Jordan averaged 11.5 points on 71% shooting, a league-leading 15 rebounds and 2.2 blocked shots. His teammates say that those stats tell only part of the story, arguing that most of what he does doesn't even show up in the stats.
"You look at the stat sheet and you don't see how many times [Chicago Bulls point guard] Aaron Brooks didn't drive because D.J. was there, or how many shots where guys went up and they passed it," Chris Paul said in March. "That doesn't show up on the stat sheet."
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