Fitting, isn't it? Draymond Green spends all season establishing himself as the brash, score-stifling wing who can take any assignment on any possession, teaming with rim-protecting mauler Andrew Bogut to lead the Golden State Warriors to the league's best defense from the very start of the season ... and then, with a late surge somehow both hellacious and matter-of-fact, Kawhi Leonard just swoops in and steals his glory. [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] The 23-year-old Leonard was named the NBA's 2014-15 Defensive Player of the Year on Thursday , becoming the first non-big-man to win the award since Ron Artest took it home in 2004 and squeaking past the Warriors' Green in the closest DPoY race since 1998 , when the Atlanta Hawks' Dikembe Mutombo received just two more first-place votes than Gary Payton of the Seattle SuperSonics. In this case, though, it was Green who topped more ballots, receiving 45 first-place selections from the panel of 129 sportswriters and broadcasters who vote on the award. But he finished with 317 total "award points" — five points for a first-place vote, three for a second-place nod, one for third place...