In the 80-year history of the National Basketball Association, we’ve never seen a player quite like San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama. He’s a 7-foot-4 unicorn with the handles of a guard, who runs like a wing and still uses every bit of his frame to be the league’s biggest deterrent around the rim.
We had also never seen a unanimous Defensive Player of the Year winner until Wembanyama came along. The third-year player earned that honor on Monday, accumulating all 100 first-place votes. Voting was done by a global media panel, and Wemby is the only unanimous DPOY winner since the award’s inception in the 1982–1983 season.
