Before the season started, Los Angeles Lakers superstar Anthony Davis said he wanted to win the Defensive Player of the Year Award.
Count Lakers guard Danny Green has someone who thinks AD is the early front runner for the award.
“He’s been the Defensive Player of the Year. Hands down,” Green told Erik Garcia Gundersen of LeBron Wire. “He’s led by his actions, by his vocal, by his communication. His standards for everybody and for ‘Bron. He’s the reason why you see ‘Bron out there scrambling and hustling, doing all the things that he’s been doing. He’s been pushing him on that end of the floor. We all have, but those two have a special relationship.
“AD has been leading by example and with his words and what he’s done vocally. That’s why our defense has been so great thus far. We want to try and be better for the full 48, but he’s the foundation of our defense.”
The Lakers have the third-best defense in the NBA right now. They are giving up only 104.0 points per game.
Davis, Dwight Howard and JaVale McGee are doing a great job of protecting the basket when the other Lakers defenders are beat by their man.
AD is averaging 2.8 blocks per game, which is good for a first place tie with Orlando Magic big man Jonathan Isaac.
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