Basketball
In American basketball, several such awards are given:
See also: List of U.S. men's college basketball national player of the year awards- The Oscar Robertson Trophy is awarded to the college basketball player of the year by the United States Basketball Writers Association.
- The Naismith College Player of the Year award is given to the best men's college player and the best women's college player.
- The John R. Wooden Award award is given by the Los Angeles Athletic Club to the best men's college player and the best women's college player.
- The National Collegiate Athletic Association gives the Chip Hilton Player of the Year Award to the Division I men's basketball player who exemplifies the best character.
- The National Basketball Association awards an NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.
- The Women's National Basketball Association awards a WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award.
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)