(WXYZ) \u2014 Detroit Pistons center\/forward Isaiah Stewart has been named the Eastern Conference Defensive Player of the Month for December, the NBA announced on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old had 28 blocks in December, which averaged out to 2.2 blocks per game. He also tied his career-high with five blocks against the Atlanta Hawks on Dec. 1, where he also grabbed nine rebounds.<\/p>\n
During the month, he recorded two or more blocks in one game eight times, and three or more blocks five times.<\/p>\n
This season, Stewart ranks third in the NBA with a career-high 2.03 blocks per game and is the only player under 7-feet-tall averaging over 2 blocks per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WXYZ) \u2014 Detroit Pistons center\/forward Isaiah Stewart has been named the Eastern Conference Defensive Player of the Month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3773],"tags":[6241,7,296,188,6242,3860,6,297,17601],"class_list":["post-512435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-7-action-news-sports","tag-basketball","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroit-sports","tag-detroitpistons","tag-nba","tag-pistons","tag-wxyz-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115827333327376579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}