Green, who won the DPOY Award, was rewarded with a Hustle Award, but...Brooks
Green, who won the DPOY Award, was rewarded with a Hustle Award, but...Brooks
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Draymond Green (Golden State) won the Hustle Award, but the series between Golden State and Houston got even hotter due to the off-the-shelf war.
The NBA secretariat reported on the 26th (Korea time) that Green won the Hustle Award in the NBA 2024-2025 season. It is the first time that Green has won the Hustle Award. After Green, Carson Wallace (Oklahoma City), Gersong Yavuselle (Philadelphia), Lugentz Dot (Oklahoma City), and Dyson Daniels (Atlanta) ranked second to fifth.
Unlike most titles that are determined by expert voting, the Hustle Award is determined by summing the scores of items that are not recorded in the box score. There are nine categories including deflection, screen assist, loose ball competition, and box-out. Last season, Alex Caruso of Chicago won the title.
Green was listed in the top 40 in all nine categories for the first time since the Hustle Award was established in 2017. He also became the second player ever to win the Most Defensive Player Award and the Hustle Award, meeting the condition of 58 games, averaging more than 24 minutes. It was Marcus Smart who achieved this earlier, and Green won the Most Defensive Player Award in the 2016-2017 season.
Green, who finished third in the targeted vote for the best defense, tried to soothe his disappointment with the Hustle Award, but suddenly caught fire. Dylan Brooks (Houston) shot Green as a "dirty player" ahead of Game 3 of the first round of the 2025 Western Conference Playoff against the Golden State Warriors. 스포츠토토
The story is as follows. The Golden State team was replaced after Jimmy Butler collided with Amen Thompson and suffered a pelvis injury in the second game against the Houston Rockets. Local media reported that some people view Thompson as a dangerous foul, and Brooks expressed his honest feelings about it.
"That's not it. I think the dirty player is green. Thompson is not that kind of player. There was just an inevitable crash in the rebound race," Brooks said. "We don't believe Thompson will be swayed. Of course, I hope Butler gets better soon."
Golden State coach Steve Kerr also said, "I don't think there's anything wrong with Thompson's play. It can happen when you play basketball," but he gave a heavy word to Brooks for describing Green as a dirty player. "That's what Brooks said? Interesting."
It is speculated that Brooks is also a player who does not miss out when discussing "Dirty Player." In the second game of the 2022 Western Conference Final against the Memphis Grizzlies, Gary Payton II suffered an elbow injury, and it was Brooks who committed a dangerous foul at the time. The series between Golden State and Houston, which faced each other with one win and one loss, added to the interest by even having a war of words outside the stadium.