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Kawhi Leonard's DPOY nod shows progress in evaluating defense

ESPN.com | April 23, 2015

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P.J. Carlesimo reacts to the news that Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard has won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award.
  • Alok Pattani

In an extremely close vote, Kawhi Leonard of the Spurs was selected as Defensive Player of the Year over the Warriors’ Draymond Green and the Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan. The voting was quite close among those three players, with Green actually receiving more first-place votes than Leonard, but the reigning NBA Finals MVP won the award by 16 voting points.

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