{"id":28172,"date":"2023-04-21T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/the-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-quiz\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T04:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:00:40","slug":"the-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/the-nba-defensive-player-of-the-year-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;NBA Defensive Player of the Year&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> We are currently in the middle of the first round of the NBA playoffs, and the most entertaining series thus far may be the matchup between the No. 2 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/memphis_grizzlies\/79\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> and No. 7 seed Los Angeles Lakers. The two squads  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/watch_shannon_sharpe_gets_into_altercation_with_grizzlies_dillon_brooks_tee_morant\/s1_127_38377192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have developed a rivalry<\/a> over the last couple of seasons, and we&#8217;re only seeing more fuel being added to the fire now. Following a victory by the Grizz in Game 2, professional agitator Dillon Brooks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/dillon_brooks_on_lebron_james_he_old\/s1_13132_38719397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had this to say<\/a> about Lakers star LeBron James: &#8220;He\u2019s old. I poke bears. I don\u2019t respect someone until he gives me 40.&#8221; This current Memphis squad certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/ja_morant_confidently_doubles_down_on_his_comments_against_western_conference\/s1_16751_38277556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">does not lack confidence<\/a>, but as the saying goes, &#8220;If you come at the king, you best not miss.&#8221; The series shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Which brings us to today&#8217;s quiz of the day. The NBA began awarding the Defensive Player of the Year following the 1982-83 season. Since then, the award has been given out 41 times, including to Memphis&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/jaren_jackson_jr\/585764\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/a>, who took home this season&#8217;s award and will need to be a factor if the Grizz expect to come out of the West. So with that in mind, how many of the 41 can you name in five minutes? <\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\tjs.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5&appId=125075807517358\";\n\t\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/the_nba_defensive_player_of_the_year_quiz\/s1__38719756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently in the middle of the first round of the NBA playoffs, and the most entertaining series thus far may be the matchup between the No. 2 seed Memphis Grizzlies and No. 7 seed Los Angeles Lakers. The two squads have developed a rivalry over the last couple of seasons, and we&#8217;re only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}