{"id":41609,"date":"2026-04-25T04:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-victor-wembanyama-named-defensive-player-of-the-year-as-first-unanimous-winner\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:27:17","slug":"nba-victor-wembanyama-named-defensive-player-of-the-year-as-first-unanimous-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nba-victor-wembanyama-named-defensive-player-of-the-year-as-first-unanimous-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Victor Wembanyama named defensive player of the year as first unanimous winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">San Antonio Spurs centre Victor Wembanyama has been named the NBA&#8217;s defensive player of the year.<\/b><\/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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/ce3drn7rwv6o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio Spurs centre Victor Wembanyama has been named the NBA&#8217;s defensive player of the year. 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. At 22, he is the youngest player to win the award and the second to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41611,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41609\/revisions\/41611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}