Another big man who has talked about …

Another big man who has talked about his desire to win Defensive Player of the Year, Philadelphia 76ers’ Joel Embiid, offered a similar argument. “[Centers] call out all the coverages. They know what is going on. They call out the plays and stuff. That is the way it has always been,” Embiid said last week. “That’s why most of the Defensive Players of the Year in the past have always been big.”