{"id":72230,"date":"2026-04-20T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/victor-wembanyama-becomes-first-unanimous-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-at-age-of-22\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:56:17","slug":"victor-wembanyama-becomes-first-unanimous-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-at-age-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/victor-wembanyama-becomes-first-unanimous-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-at-age-of-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Wembanyama becomes first unanimous NBA defensive player of the year at age of 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Frenchman becomes youngest winner of award<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Spurs star has dominated opponents all season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There had never been a unanimous NBA defensive player of the year. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Wembanyama \u2013 as expected \u2013 was announced Monday as the league\u2019s top defensive player. The San Antonio center was second in the voting for DPOY as a rookie, was the favorite last season until a medical condition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/feb\/20\/victor-wembanyama-injury-deep-vein-thrombosis-nba\">ended his season prematurely<\/a>, but left no doubt this year. At 22, he\u2019s the youngest winner of the award.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/20\/victor-wembanyama-becomes-first-unanimous-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-at-age-of-22\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenchman becomes youngest winner of award Spurs star has dominated opponents all season There had never been a unanimous NBA defensive player of the year. Until now. Victor Wembanyama \u2013 as expected \u2013 was announced Monday as the league\u2019s top defensive player. The San Antonio center was second in the voting for DPOY as a &#8230; <a title=\"Victor Wembanyama becomes first unanimous NBA defensive player of the year at age of 22\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/victor-wembanyama-becomes-first-unanimous-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-at-age-of-22\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Victor Wembanyama becomes first unanimous NBA defensive player of the year at age of 22\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}