Cleveland’s Evan Mobley named 2025 Defensive Player of the Year award, past winners list.
Cleveland Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley has been named the 2024-25 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, the NBA announced today.
The Cavs consider Mobley to be their best defensive player, and the league thought even more highly of him. Mobley held off fellow finalists Dyson Daniels of Atlanta and Draymond Green of Golden State for the award, the results being announced Thursday night in a broadcast on TNT.
Mobley won the award in a season where he was an All-Star for the first time and set a career high for scoring.
Green won the award in 2017, was a top-three finisher for the fifth time, and was bidding to become the 11th player in NBA history to win it at least twice. Mobley won it for the first time, after finishing third in the voting in 2023. Daniels was a finalist for the first time.
Daniels had 229 steals this season, the most in the NBA since Gary Payton had 231 for the Seattle SuperSonics in 1995-96. Daniels was also the first player to average more than 3.00 steals per game since Robertson for the Milwaukee Bucks in 1990-91. Nate McMillan averaged 2.959 in 1993-94 for Seattle; John Stockton averaged 2.976 in 1991-92 for the Utah Jazz.
Based on Daniels, Green and Mobley all being finalists, it’s reasonable to think that they will be on the All-Defensive team when it is released by the NBA later this spring. It would be the ninth All-Defensive selection for Green, the second for Mobley and the first for Daniels.
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Last Year DPOY winner: 2024 — Rudy Gobert, Minnesota
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The NBA's Defensive Player of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1982–83 NBA season.
The most time winners of Defensive Player of the Year award are Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace a record four times.
Dwight Howard is the only player to ever win the award in three consecutive seasons from 2009-11.
Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Kevin Garnett are only NBA Players that NBA Defensive Player of the Year winners as well NBA MVP award winners during their career while Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon won both awards in the same season.
The most recent NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award 2025 winner is Evan Mobely of Cleveland's Cavaliers.
This is the complete list (year by year) of all the NBA players that won the Defensive Player of the Year Award since 1983-2025.
2024-25 — Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers
2022-23 — Jaren Jackson Jr. , Memphis Grizzlies
2021-22 — Marcus Smart, Boston Celtics
2020-21 — Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
2019-20 — Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
2018-19 — Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
2017-18 Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
2016-17 - Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors
2015-16 - Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio Spurs
2014-15 - Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio Spurs
2013-14 - Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls
2012-13 - Marc Gasol, Memphis Grizzlies
2011-12 - Tyson Chandler, New York Knicks
2010-11 - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
2009-10 - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
2008-09 - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
2007-08 - Kevin Garnett, Boston Celtics
2006-07 - Marcus Camby, Denver Nuggets
2005-06 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2004-05 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2003-04 - Ron Artest, Indiana Pacers
2002-03 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2001-02 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2000-01 - Dikembe Mutombo, Philadelphia 76ers
1999-00 - Alonzo Mourning, Miami Heat
1998-99 - Alonzo Mourning, Miami Heat
1997-98 - Dikembe Mutombo, Atlanta Hawks
1996-97 - Dikembe Mutombo, Atlanta Hawks
1995-96 - Gary Payton, Seattle SuperSonics
1994-95 - Dikembe Mutombo, Denver Nuggets
1993-94 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets
1992-93 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets
1991-92 - David Robinson, San Antonio Spurs
1990-91 - Dennis Rodman, Detroit Pistons
1989-90 - Dennis Rodman, Detroit Pistons
1988-89 - Mark Eaton, Utah Jazz
1987-88 - Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
1986-87 - Michael Cooper, Los Angeles Lakers
1985-86 - Alvin Robertson, San Antonio Spurs
1984-85 - Mark Eaton, Utah Jazz
1983-84 - Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee Bucks
1982-83 - Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee Bucks
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Last Year DPOY winner: 2024 — Rudy Gobert, Minnesota
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Also: .
The NBA's Defensive Player of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1982–83 NBA season.
The most time winners of Defensive Player of the Year award are Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace a record four times.
Dwight Howard is the only player to ever win the award in three consecutive seasons from 2009-11.
Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Kevin Garnett are only NBA Players that NBA Defensive Player of the Year winners as well NBA MVP award winners during their career while Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon won both awards in the same season.
The most recent NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award 2025 winner is Evan Mobely of Cleveland's Cavaliers.
Full List of NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award winners 1983-2025.
This is the complete list (year by year) of all the NBA players that won the Defensive Player of the Year Award since 1983-2025.
2024-25 — Evan Mobley, Cleveland Cavaliers
2023-24 — Rudy Gobert, Minnesota Timberwolves
2021-22 — Marcus Smart, Boston Celtics
2020-21 — Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
2019-20 — Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
2018-19 — Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
2017-18 Rudy Gobert, Utah Jazz
2016-17 - Draymond Green, Golden State Warriors
2015-16 - Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio Spurs
2014-15 - Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio Spurs
2013-14 - Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls
2012-13 - Marc Gasol, Memphis Grizzlies
2011-12 - Tyson Chandler, New York Knicks
2010-11 - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
2009-10 - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
2008-09 - Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
2007-08 - Kevin Garnett, Boston Celtics
2006-07 - Marcus Camby, Denver Nuggets
2005-06 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2004-05 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2003-04 - Ron Artest, Indiana Pacers
2002-03 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2001-02 - Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
2000-01 - Dikembe Mutombo, Philadelphia 76ers
1999-00 - Alonzo Mourning, Miami Heat
1998-99 - Alonzo Mourning, Miami Heat
1997-98 - Dikembe Mutombo, Atlanta Hawks
1996-97 - Dikembe Mutombo, Atlanta Hawks
1995-96 - Gary Payton, Seattle SuperSonics
1994-95 - Dikembe Mutombo, Denver Nuggets
1993-94 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets
1992-93 - Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston Rockets
1991-92 - David Robinson, San Antonio Spurs
1990-91 - Dennis Rodman, Detroit Pistons
1989-90 - Dennis Rodman, Detroit Pistons
1988-89 - Mark Eaton, Utah Jazz
1987-88 - Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls
1986-87 - Michael Cooper, Los Angeles Lakers
1985-86 - Alvin Robertson, San Antonio Spurs
1984-85 - Mark Eaton, Utah Jazz
1983-84 - Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee Bucks
1982-83 - Sidney Moncrief, Milwaukee Bucks
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