Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green named the winner of 2024-25 NBA Hustle Award, past winners.

Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors is this season’s winner of the NBA Hustle Award, the league announced Friday.

The award has been presented since 2017. Oklahoma City’s Cason Wallace was second, Philadelphia’s Guerschon Yabusele was third, Oklahoma City’s Lugentz Dort was fourth and Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels was fifth.

Green and Daniels were also both finalists for defensive player of the year, which was won by Cleveland’s Evan Mobley.

The Hustle Award, the NBA said, “honors a player who makes the effort plays that do not often appear in the traditional box score but help determine team success.” Those stats include deflections, loose balls recovered on both ends of the floor, charges drawn, screen assists, contested shots and box-outs on both ends.

It’s based around nine categories in all, and Green ranked 39th or better in all of them on a per-minute basis — including second in contested 3-point shots, sixth in charges drawn, 10th in defensive box outs, 13th in contested 2-point shots and 15th in deflections.

Green joins three-time winner Marcus Smart, along with Alex Caruso, Thaddeus Young, Montrezl Harrell, Amir Johnson and Patrick Beverley, as winners of the hustle award.

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What is the NBA Hustle Award.?

The Hustle Award, which debuted in 2016-17, rewards players that do the little things that don’t often show up in the traditional box score but have been tracked since the NBA debuted its Hustle Stats during the 2016 postseason.
Hustle stats include deflections, loose balls recovered, charges drawn, screen assists, contested shots and box-outs.