As the NBA's regular season comes to a close, will Victor Wembanyama's late push be enough to steal the Defensive Player of the Year award from Rudy Gobert? Check out the latest odds.
Rudy Gobert has won the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year three times and, based on the odds, he is well on his way to a fourth. The Minnesota Timberwolves center's odds to win the award opened this season at +1800. By the end of the calendar year, he was sitting at -115. Three weeks ago, his odds shortened all the way to -900. And now, with a little over a week left in the regular season, he's the commanding odds-on favorite at -3500. Averaging 12.
And just this week, on April 2, in a head-to-head matchup with likely MVP-winner Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets, Wemby almost had a quadruple double with 23 points, 15 rebounds, 8 assists and 9 blocks in a losing effort against the defending champs. 'He had like 600 blocks tonight, but we got the win,' Jokic exclaimed about Wembanyama's defense. 'He blocked six, seven shots,' Jokic said.
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