The Two Voters Who Left Draymond Off Defensive Player of the Year Ballot

Editor's note: The above video is from last weekend, before the NBA Awards show on Monday night.

Draymond Green won the Defensive Player of the Year award for the first time in his career.

Two voters did not think Draymond was worthy of a Top 3 finish:

- Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders
- Marcelo Nogueira of Ole

- Kyler's Top 3: Kawhi Leonard, Rudy Gobert, Hassan Whiteside (who received just three third-place votes)
- Nogueira's Top 3: Kawhi Leonard, Rudy Gobert, LaMarcus Aldridge (the only vote he received)

Noguiera also gave Isaiah Thomas a vote (his only one) for All-Defensive Second Team, despite the fact Thomas was one of the worst defenders in the NBA.

The other guard on Nogueira's All-Defensive Second Team -- Steph Curry (he received three votes -- one came from Kyler) 

Draymond finished with 73 first-place votes, 22 second-place votes and three third-place votes for a total of 434 points.

Gobert was a distant second -- 16 first-place votes, 53 second-place votes and 30 third-place votes for a total of 269 points.

Leonard -- who won the award each of the last two seasons -- finished in third place.

In 2015, Draymond finished runner-up and was left off 42 ballots.

Last year, he finished runner-up and was left off nine ballots.

Drew Shiller is the co-host of Warriors Outsiders and a Web Producer at NBC Sports Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @DrewShiller

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