Green finished in front of Oklahoma CIty's Cason Wallace, Philadelphia's Guerschon Yabusele, Oklahoma City's Lu Dort and Atlanta's Dyson Daniels. Former Chicago Bulls guard and current Oklahoma City guard Alex Caruso won the Hustle award last season.

But I was today years old when I found out that the NBA Hustle award was actually a thing and that this wasn't just something that the league was giving Draymond Green so that he wouldn't completely wreck shop for losing the Defensive Player of the Year award to Evan Mobley.

Beginning about three weeks ago, a movement took hold suggesting that, perhaps, with star center Victor Wembanyama out for the season after a blood clot, NBA awards voters should shift their defensive player selection toward a sort-of lifetime achievement candidate: Warriors forward Draymond Green.