Spurs' Victor Wembanyama shatters multiple NBA history records with DPOY award win

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It is official. Victor Wembanyama has won the 2025-26 NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. The San Antonio Spurs superstar was more than expected to win the award but he shatters a lot of records along with it too. What exactly are these records? Well, it includes usurping DPOY-winning greats like Dwight Howard, Alvin Robertson, and Kawhi Leonard among others.

Wembanyama shatters Spurs, NBA history in DPOY win

To start off, Victor Wembanyama is now the youngest winner of the DPOY award. Dwight Howard previously held the record back in 2009 when he played for the Orlando Magic at 23 years old. As of the moment, Wembanyama is 22 years and 107 days old. This means that he also usurps guys like Kawhi Leonard, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Evan Mobley.

Unsurprisingly, this also means that Wembanyama is the youngest Spurs player to have won the DPOY honors. He beats out both Leonard and Alvin Robertson who won it back when they were 23 years old.

More than all of that, he is also the first player in NBA history to win the DPOY unanimously. He earned 100 first place votes which sets him above guys like Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Dikembe Mutombo among other legends,