Defensive Player of the Year, but he got a consolation prize of sorts the day after he found out that he'd finished third. Green is the winner of this season's Hustle Award, the NBA announced Friday.The award "honors a player who makes the effort plays that do not often appear in the traditional box score but help determine team success,

The No. seed Golden State Warriors are knotted 1-1 in their first-round playoff series against the No. seed Houston Rockets after splitting the first two games at the Toyota Center.

And yet, longtime assistant coach Ron Adams pointed to Green’s intelligence as perhaps his greatest strength and the biggest reason he – along with Cleveland’s Evan Mobley and Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels – is a finalist for the Defensive Player of the Year award.