{"id":494977,"date":"2026-04-30T19:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494977"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:24:22","slug":"moussa-diabate-wins-nba-hustle-award-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/moussa-diabate-wins-nba-hustle-award-for-2025-26-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Moussa Diabat\u00e9 Wins NBA Hustle Award for 2025\u201326 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlotte Hornets big man Moussa Diabat\u00e9 has been named the winner of the NBA Hustle Award for the 2025\u201326 season.<\/p>\n

The award is given to the player who consistently makes effort plays that often don\u2019t show up in the box score but contribute significantly to team success.<\/p>\n

Below is a breakdown of Diabat\u00e9\u2019s impact across all hustle-related statistical categories.<\/p>\n

(Via NBA.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Diabat\u00e9 played a key role in the Hornets\u2019 strong regular season, taking advantage of Ryan Kalkbrenner\u2019s injury to step in as the starting center.<\/p>\n

The lineup featuring Diabat\u00e9 alongside LaMelo Ball, Brandon Miller, Miles Bridges, and Kneuppel posted an outstanding +26.4 net rating in over 500 minutes together.<\/p>\n

Diabat\u00e9 wrapped up his fourth NBA season averaging 7.9 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1.9 assists, and 1.0 block in 26 minutes per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diabat\u00e9 played a key role in the Hornets\u2019 strong regular season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":494976,"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-494977","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\/HHKyR3aW4AAUlyg.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494977","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494977"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494977"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494977"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}