The winner of the 2024-25 NBA Hustle Award is… Draymond Green! #NBAAwards
The award honors a player who makes the effort plays that do not often appear in the box score but help determine team success. pic.twitter.com/BPjSvQEi8C
— NBA (@NBA) April 25, 2025
Although he finished third for the Defensive Player of the Year award, Draymond Green will have some new hardware to take home in 2025. On Friday, Green was named the winner of the NBA’s Hustle Award.
According to the NBA, the award “honors players who make the effort plays that don’t often appear in the traditional box score but impact winning on a nightly basis.”
Unlike the other end-of-season awards, the Hustle award isn’t voted on. Instead, the award is issued to the player that ranks highly in nine different “hustle” categories — charges drawn, deflections, screen assists, contested 2-point shots and 3-point shots; offensive and defensive loose balls recovered; and offensive and defensive box outs.
Green ranked in at least the top 39 in each of the categories. Green ranked in the top 10 of defensive box outs, charges drawn and contested 3-point shots.
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.
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