The winner is selected by a panel of 124 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections. Davis being as good as he is on both sides of the ball could actually hinder the league-wide credit he could get — as dumb as that might sound.Hopefully, if Davis keeps up this level of play and the Lakers maintain this kind of defensive effort, he’ll get proper credit regardless of what he offers on the other end of the court.
LeBron James finished second in the race for NBA Defensive Player of the Year, behind Marc Gasol.LeBron is not particularly pleased at this outcome. Silver Screen and Roll You can put him against their size. ... That’s why he’s defensive player of the year. The NBA's Defensive Player of the Year Award is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1982–83 NBA seasonto the best defensive player of the regular season. "Awards and titles are nice and all, but the most important thing for the Lakers is that their starting forward was relatively unscathed. "Especially against a team like this where [we] have the concerns of a basket-attacking guard in Ja Morant and guys like [Brandon] Clarke and [Jonas] Valanciunas in attacking the basket. "I’m not playing defense for that but it is appealing," Davis said.
LeBron James Says Anthony Davis Is Defensive Player of the Year. "You don’t know until you check all the boxes, but anytime they tell me I’m cleared and it’s not going to hurt me to go out there and play,The New York Liberty star and No. With 9 minutes and 27 seconds left in the first quarter of Friday's game against Memphis, the Lakers had a bit of a scare after Anthony Davis was kneed in the back of his right leg.After getting treatment on the Lakers' bench, he limped toward the tunnel.Davis was cleared to return from what the Lakers called a bruised right calfThe injury didn't hamper Davis at all. LeBron James tweets that Anthony Davis should be Defensive Player of the YearThe Lakers got the shots they wanted against the Raptors. "Davis, a seven-time All-Star who was named to the NBA All Defensive First Team in 2018, acknowledged that he'd really like to win that award. The player with th…
No one lie told here! LeBron James is a big fan of what Anthony Davis has given the Lakers on D this year, and thinks he should be rewarded with his first-ever Defensive Player of the Year award. "He does everything," LeBron James said. That’s why he’s defensive player of the year. "I mean, that award, I would love to have that award several times before I retire — which is not soon. LeBron James, left, isn't happy with the Defensive Player of the Year voting. He can be a post threat and a rebounding threat and [he has the] ability to play both positions as well as anybody in the league. His ability to switch out and mix it up in transition, all of those are areas he impacts the game. Oh and guess he’s not so bad on the other end too! He just does everything for us. He just does everything for us. Frankly, it’s hard (if not outright impossible) to disagree with James on this one. It’s not one thing he doesn’t do well defensively. "We were just joking, I think he had zero points midway through the second quarter," Lakers' coach Frank Vogel said. But James should win Defensive Player of the Year this season too. So a great second-half performance. Community Guidelines But he said the injury didn't bother him while he was playing.All in all, he's just immensely relieved that once again he's okay. In fact, the Lakers got a laugh out of that fact that it may have inspired a brilliant performance. LeBron Raymone James Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He’s the best defender in the league, simplest way to put it. Get steals. At the very least, it certainly helps to have one of the loudest voices in the NBA on your side. But you don’t know how serious those can be.