Most times as NBA defensive Player of the Year
- Who
- Dikembe Mutombo, Ben Wallace
- What
- 4 total number
- Where
- United States
- When
- 2001
Two players have been awarded NBA defensive Player of the Year four times as of 17 December 2013. The first was Dikembe Mutombo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) who won in 1994/95, 1996/97, 1997/98 and 2000/01 and the second, Ben Wallace (USA), who was awarded the title in 2001/02, 2002/03, 2004/05 and 2005/06.