It only makes sense that the Defensive Player of the Year gets selected to the NBA’s All-Defense First Team, and the NBA has made the right choice by selecting Kawhi Leonard for this honor. Leonard went from missing 15 games to becoming one of the top defenders in the league. Last year he was named in the NBA’s All-Defense Second Team and it seems like Leonard is at the stage that he just keeps getting better on the floor.
So now let’s see what “The Claw” has done this year. He became the sixth forward to lead the NBA in steals per game averaging 2.