{"id":493731,"date":"2026-04-21T07:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493731"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:49:10","slug":"victor-wembanyama-makes-history-as-first-unanimous-defensive-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/victor-wembanyama-makes-history-as-first-unanimous-defensive-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama makes history as first unanimous Defensive Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1979\"><strong data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1706\">Victor Wembanyama<\/strong> has made NBA history by becoming the first player ever to win the <strong data-start=\"1773\" data-end=\"1805\">Defensive Player of the Year<\/strong> award unanimously. The <strong data-start=\"1829\" data-end=\"1850\">San Antonio Spurs<\/strong> star received all 100 first-place votes and captured the 2025-26 DPOY in dominant fashion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1981\" data-end=\"2301\">At just <strong data-start=\"1989\" data-end=\"2005\">22 years old<\/strong>, Wembanyama is also the youngest winner in the history of the award. <strong data-start=\"2075\" data-end=\"2092\">Chet Holmgren<\/strong> finished second and <strong data-start=\"2113\" data-end=\"2131\">Ausar Thompson<\/strong> third in the voting, but there was no real suspense around the result given Wembanyama\u2019s defensive dominance throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2303\" data-end=\"2613\">It is the Spurs\u2019 first DPOY since <strong data-start=\"2337\" data-end=\"2354\">Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> won it in back-to-back seasons in 2014-15 and 2015-16. Wembanyama once again led the league in blocks and anchored one of the best defenses in the NBA, further confirming his status as one of the league\u2019s defining stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Antonio Spurs star won the 2025-26 DPOY with every first-place vote and also became the youngest player ever to earn the award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":493730,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/HGYW-gwa4AArZWf.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493731","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=493731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493731"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493731"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493731"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}