NBL Best Defensive Player Award

The National Basketball League Best Defensive Player is an annual National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the 1980 NBL season to the best defensive player of the regular season. As of the 2023–24 season, the head coach, assistant coach and captain of each team vote for the Defensive Player of the Year.^[1] Voters are not allowed to vote for players from their own team.^[2] The winner receives the Damian Martin Trophy, which was named in honour of Damian Martin^[3] who won the award six times.^[4]^[5]

Winners

Year	Player	Nationality	Team
1980	Ray Wood	Australien	West Adelaide Bearcats
1981	Ray Wood (2)	Australien	West Adelaide Bearcats
1982	Phil Smyth	Australien	St. Kilda Saints
1983	Phil Smyth (2)	Australien	Canberra Cannons
1984	K.A.	K.A.	K.A.
1985	K.A.	K.A.	K.A.
1986	K.A.	K.A.	K.A.
1987	Leroy Loggins	Vereinigte Staaten	Brisbane Bullets
1988	Phil Smyth (3)	Australien	Canberra Cannons
1989	Phil Smyth (4)	Australien	Canberra Cannons
1990	Leroy Loggins (2)	Vereinigte Staaten	Brisbane Bullets
1991	Terry Dozier	Vereinigte Staaten	Geelong Supercats
1992	Terry Dozier (2)	Vereinigte Staaten	Newcastle Falcons
1993	Terry Dozier (3)	Vereinigte Staaten	Newcastle Falcons
1994	Darren Lucas	Australien	South East Melbourne Magic
1995	Darren Lucas (2)	Australien	South East Melbourne Magic
1996	Isaac Burton	Vereinigte Staaten	Sydney Kings
1997	Mike Kelly	Vereinigte Staaten	South East Melbourne Magic
1998	Mike Kelly (2)	Vereinigte Staaten	South East Melbourne Magic
1998–99	Darnell Mee	Vereinigte Staaten	Adelaide 36ers
1999–2000	Darnell Mee (2)	Vereinigte Staaten	Adelaide 36ers
2000–01	Darnell Mee (3)	Vereinigte Staaten	Adelaide 36ers
2001–02	Simon Dwight	Australien	West Sydney Razorbacks
2002–03	Glen Saville	Australien	Wollongong Hawks
2003–04	Ben Castle	Australien	Brisbane Bullets
2004–05	Darnell Mee (4)	Vereinigte Staaten	Wollongong Hawks
2005–06	Darnell Mee (5)	Vereinigte Staaten	Cairns Taipans
2006–07	Sam Mackinnon	Australien	Brisbane Bullets
2007–08	Chris Anstey	Australien	Melbourne Tigers
2008–09	Adam Gibson	Australien	South Dragons
2009–10	Dillon Boucher	Neuseeland	New Zealand Breakers
2010–11	Damian Martin	Australien	Perth Wildcats
2011–12	Damian Martin (2)	Australien	Perth Wildcats
2012–13	Damian Martin (3)	Australien	Perth Wildcats
2013–14	Damian Martin (4)	Australien	Perth Wildcats
2014–15	Damian Martin (5)	Australien	Perth Wildcats
2015–16	Kevin Lisch	Vereinigte Staaten	Illawarra Hawks
2016–17	Torrey Craig	Vereinigte Staaten	Brisbane Bullets
2017–18	Damian Martin (6)	Australien	Perth Wildcats
2018–19	Andrew Bogut	Australien	Sydney Kings
2019–20	D. J. Newbill	Vereinigte Staaten	Cairns Taipans
2020–21	Justin Simon	Vereinigte Staaten	Illawarra Hawks
2021–22	Antonius Cleveland	Vereinigte Staaten	Illawarra Hawks
2022–23	Antonius Cleveland (2)	Vereinigte Staaten	Adelaide 36ers
2023–24	Shea Ili	Neuseeland	Melbourne United

References

^ "NBL24 MVP finalists revealed". NBL.com.au. 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
^ "LISCH DETHRONES MARTIN FOR BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER". NBL.com.au. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
^ "NBL to Honour Damian Martin". NBL.com.au. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ "NBL Awards: Defensive Player of the Year". NBL.com.au. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015.
^ NBL (27 February 2018). "The award may as well be named after him..." Twitter. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

[1] "NBL24 MVP finalists revealed". NBL.com.au. 19 February 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2024.

[2] "LISCH DETHRONES MARTIN FOR BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER". NBL.com.au. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

[3] "NBL to Honour Damian Martin". NBL.com.au. 21 July 2020. Retrieved 21 July 2020.

[4] "NBL Awards: Defensive Player of the Year". NBL.com.au. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2015.

[5] NBL (27 February 2018). "The award may as well be named after him..." Twitter. Retrieved 27 February 2018.

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