Some players and teams may think they need fancy campaigns to woo voters for NBA awards. Not Hassan Whiteside.
The Heat center has a simple suggestion for voters when comparing him to other Defensive Player of the Year candidates.
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"I want y'all to go to Toys 'R' Us and put up each block for how many blocks I've got for the season and just look at it and just be like, 'That's a lot of blocks.' And then y'all vote," Whiteside said Wednesday, via the Palm Beach Post.
Whiteside had 255 blocks at the time of his comments, 85 more than his next closest competitor, Clippers center DeAndre Jordan.
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Blocking the most shots won’t necessarily make Whiteside a shoe-in to win the award.
Dwight Howard was the last player to lead the league in blocks and win Defensive Player of the Year, and that was in 2010. He blocked 2.78 shots per game that season.
Whiteside’s blocked shots average is in another stratosphere, however; he’s issuing nearly four denials per game.