The careers of Ben Wallace and Kobe Bryant will forever be intertwined. The two NBA greats came from the same 1996 draft class and met each other in the 2004 finals in one of the most shocking upsets in league history when Ben's Detroit Pistons swept Kobe ...

Only three players in the 80-year history of the league have won the Defensive Player of the Year award at least four times. These are three giants, all centers who turned good teams into great ones. While each of them had offensive limitations to a ...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) Ben Wallace, one of the top defensive players in NBA history, had his No. 3 jersey retired by the Detroit Pistons. A clock tower ''DONG'' reverberated at The Palace as a white banner adorned with ''Wallace'' in blue and ''3'' in ...

Rudy Gobert (3x) joins Dikembe Mutombo (4x), Ben Wallace (4x), and Dwight Howard (3x) as the fourth player to win Defensive Player of the Year at least three times! Check out some of the top defensive plays from their DPOY seasons.

NBA players acknowledge each other in different ways. Ben Wallace and Kobe Bryant, for example, did it on the court through fierce competition and hunger for wins. “My relationship with Kobe was different,” Wallace said on the “120 Watts Podcast.”

The comparisons between Ben Wallace and Isaiah Stewart are natural, irresistible even. "I definitely see it," Wallace told ESPN. Both are underestimated, undersized big men who played well above their listed height. Both carry a clear edge in every ...

The Detroit Pistons longed for the return of an enforcer like Ben Wallace in the years that followed “Big Ben’s” retirement in 2012. The four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year may never have an equal in Detroit for how he dominated the inside for the franchise over nine seasons,