The long arms and super-sized hands of Kawhi Leonard will be clutching a second straight Defensive Player of the Year award. The Spurs' suffocating stopper beat out Golden State's Draymond Green, garnering 84 first-place votes to Green's 44.
Miami's Hassan Whiteside finished third in the voting, followed by Clippers center DeAndre Jordan, Hawks forward Paul Millsap and Boston guard Avery Bradley.
Jazz center Rudy Gobert finished seventh in the voting. Gobert received one second place vote and 10 third-place votes (you can see an entire breakdown of the voting here):
Second-place vote:
Jody Genessy, Deseret News
Third-place votes:
Charles Gardner, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Eddie Johnson, Fox Sports Arizona
Jim Petersen, Fox Sports North
Joe Freeman, The Oregonian
Ken Berger, CBSSports.