Jaren Jackson Jr. on Monday won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award, and he was quite moved by the honor.
The Memphis Grizzlies shared a video via Twitter showing Jackson’s reaction to winning the award. His mother was pretty pumped about it and very vocal, while Jaren soaked things in.
DPOYYYYY @jarenjacksonjr 🏆 pic.twitter.com/SSVBCYmcKJ
— Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) April 17, 2023
Jackson won the award pretty easily. He received 56 first-place votes, which was more than second-place finisher Brook Lopez, who received 31 votes. Evan Mobley was third, Draymond Green was fourth and Bam Adebayo finished fifth.
Full breakdown of DPOY voting: https://t.co/evATs8obPw pic.twitter.com/PF1UvNJ0NI
— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) April 17, 2023
Jackson led the NBA with 3.0 blocks per game and also averaged 1.0 steals per game.
The No. 4 overall pick in the 2018 draft became the second player in Grizzlies history to win the honor, following Marc Gasol, who won it in 2012-2013.
