All the usual suspects were at the top of the Defensive Player of the Year voting at the inaugural NBA Awards. Draymond Green, Rudy Gobert, Kawhi Leonard, and... Robert Covington?
You read that correctly. With a single second-place vote and another third-place vote, Covington snuck into the top four for the league’s top defensive honor, hours after news leaked that he’d finished within the top-20 of All Defense voting.
The NBA decided it would share this news through a super blurry picture on the league’s PR account, so I’ve gone through the trouble of making a table that’s easier on the eyes for you.