NBA Award Winners Who Didn’t Deserve Their Awards

The entire 2013 All-Defensive first team

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For the second year in a row, the Defensive Player of the Year was not on the All-Defensive first team. Not only was Marc Gasol left off the first team, but it consisted of six players due to a tie. Take your pick, the man in the middle of the team with the second-best defensive rating, according to Basketball Reference, should have made it over all six honorees, including Tyson Chandler.

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