The Defensive Player of the Year conversation starts and probably ends with Victor Wembanyama . Let's get the obvious out of the way quickly. Ask 100 NBA observers to name the league's best defender and 90 of them probably start with San Antonio's enormous Frenchman. There is a world in which he wins this award and another seven or eight more in the years that follow.

But we're here to talk about these awards from a gambling perspective. Right now, the shortest odds you can find on Wembanyama are -175 on DraftKings . That line implies that Vegas believes Wembanyama has more than a 63.6% chance at winning the award. And frankly, the math there just doesn't add up.

Forget about whether or not Wembanyama is the best defender in the NBA for a moment. He has to play 65 games to qual

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