NBA DPOY Winners / 1996

1996 NBA Defensive Player of the Year: Gary Payton

Gary Payton won NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the 1995-96 season as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics.

Season1995-96

DPOY WinnerGary Payton

TeamSeattle SuperSonics

The 1995-96 NBA Defensive Player of the Year was Gary Payton of the Seattle SuperSonics. This page is part of CourtSideHeat’s NBA awards database, designed to connect defensive award history with player pages, team pages, quizzes, articles, and merchandise collections.

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