The Athletic surveyed 142 NBA players, asking them a variety of questions.
Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert is the runaway favorite to win his fourth Defensive Player of the Year Award, which would put him in pretty elite company with Hall of Famers Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace as the only four-time winners of the award.
Gobert was also all the way down to fifth in the voting for who’s the best defender. Of the 132 votes cast for that question, Gobert only received 6%, which was behind Timberwolves teammate Jaden McDaniels, who received 8.3% of the vote. That oddity aside, there were a few other notable Timberwolves mentions in the polls. Anthony Edwards received a vote as MVP this season and he was the third-most voted for player for the question: “You’re building a roster from scratch: Who are you going to sign first?” Edwards was behind only first-place vote-getter Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs and Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, who was also the favorite for MVP with 41.8% of the vote.
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