Back to the New York Knicks Newsfeed

Michell Robinson is doing everything to be crowned Defensive Player of the Year

Mark Eaton, Dennis Rodman, Ben Wallace.

The common denominator among those three strong men: winning the Defensive Player of the Year award at least twice each in individual seasons in which they scored fewer than 10 PPG.

Get the hell outta here if you are one of those claiming Mitchell Robinson’s low-scoring output straight rules him out of the race, please.

Eaton (in 1985) and Wallace (in 2005) topped nine points a pop once each. No other DPOY-worth season among the eight referenced above featured one of those three gentlemen scoring more than 8.