NBA DPOY Winners / 1997

1997 NBA Defensive Player of the Year: Dikembe Mutombo

Dikembe Mutombo won NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the 1996-97 season as a member of the Atlanta Hawks.

Season1996-97

DPOY WinnerDikembe Mutombo

TeamAtlanta Hawks

The 1996-97 NBA Defensive Player of the Year was Dikembe Mutombo of the Atlanta Hawks. 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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