{"id":271905,"date":"2022-04-19T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=271905"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:10:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T07:10:04","slug":"bostons-marcus-smart-wins-2021-22-kia-defensive-player-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/bostons-marcus-smart-wins-2021-22-kia-defensive-player-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston&#8217;s Marcus Smart wins 2021-22 Kia Defensive Player of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has been named the 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, the NBA announced today.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award for Smart, who becomes the first guard to earn the honor since Gary Payton in the 1995-96 season.\u00a0 Smart is also the second player to win the award with the Celtics, joining Kevin Garnett (2007-08).<\/p>\n<p>Smart received 257 points (37 first-place votes) from a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters. Phoenix Suns forward Mikal Bridges finished in second place with 202 points (22 first-place votes).\u00a0 Utah Jazz center and three-time Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert finished in third place with 136 points (12 first-place votes).\u00a0 Players were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote.<\/p>\n<p>A starter in all 71 of his games played in the 2021-22 regular season, the 6-foot-4 Smart ranked seventh in the NBA in steals per game (1.68) and tied for sixth in total steals (119).\u00a0 He had 19 games with three or more steals, including two games with a season-high five steals.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, 28, ranked among the league leaders in several \u201chustle\u201d categories, finishing tied for fourth in the NBA in loose balls recovered (75) and tied for 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in both deflections (206) and charges drawn (16).\u00a0 He also set a career high in defensive rebounds per game (3.2).<\/p>\n<p>Behind Smart, the Celtics led the NBA in defensive rating (106.2) and points allowed per game (104.5) and held opponents to the lowest field goal percentage (43.4) and three-point field goal percentage (33.9).\u00a0 The strong defense helped propel the Celtics to a 51-31 record and the second seed in the Eastern Conference for the 2022 NBA Playoffs presented by Google Pixel.<\/p>\n<p>An eight-year NBA veteran, Smart has been selected to the NBA All-Defensive First Team twice (2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons).\u00a0 He also won the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/articles\/marcus-smart-wins-2018-19-nba-hustle-award\/\">NBA Hustle Award<\/a>\u00a0for the 2018-19 season.\u00a0 This season, Smart averaged 12.1 points, a career-high 5.9 assists and 3.8 rebounds in 32.3 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>The voting results for the 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award are below.\u00a0 The balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm Ernst &amp; Young LLP.\u00a0 Complete ballots for each voter will be posted at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pr.nba.com\/\">PR.NBA.com<\/a>\u00a0after the announcement of all end-of-season awards.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Marcus Smart \u00e8 il difensore dell&#8217;anno. L&#8217;ultima guardia a ricevere il premio fu Gary Payton, nel 1996&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JZs5yU4dIm\">pic.twitter.com\/JZs5yU4dIm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udd38\ud835\udd5d\ud835\udd56\ud835\udd64\ud835\udd64\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd5f\ud835\udd55\ud835\udd63\ud835\udd60 \ud835\udd44\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd58\ud835\udd58\ud835\udd5a (@AlessandroMagg4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlessandroMagg4\/status\/1516312796471910403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart has been named the 2021-22 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year, the NBA announced today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":271904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-271905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/FQqf0krXwAIN_Fp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271905"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=271905"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=271905"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=271905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}