{"id":620949,"date":"2026-04-21T07:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620949\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:50:09","slug":"nba-victor-wembanyama-named-defensive-player-of-the-year-as-first-unanimous-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620949\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Victor Wembanyama named defensive player of the year as first unanimous winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">San Antonio Spurs centre Victor Wembanyama has been named the NBA&#8217;s defensive player of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 7ft 4in France international is the first unanimous winner in the award&#8217;s 43-year history having secured all 100 of the first-place votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 22, he is the youngest player to win the award and the second to win it within their first three seasons, after Spurs legend David Robinson (1991-92).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wembanyama was the first overall draft pick in 2023 and has led the league in blocks (3.1 per game) for the third straight season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two-time All-Star also averaged career highs in points (25.0) and rebounds (11.5), and claimed a steal per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m super, super happy to win this award and actually super proud to be the first ever unanimous [winner],&#8221; he told NBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs centre Victor Wembanyama has been named the NBA&#8217;s defensive player of the year. The 7ft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-620949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}