Simmons offered a strong endorsement for Daniels as a leading candidate for NBA Defensive Player of the Year. “Dyson’s just been killing. He’s been all over it — Defensive Player of the Year for me,” Simmons said. “It’s hard not to give it to him. I think he’s just everywhere. He has great hands, and he’s really guarding everybody.”
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In an exclusive interview with ClutchPoints, the now-Clippers forward discussed what he was dealing with privately as people questioned every aspect of his basketball life. “I had two herniations,” Simmons told ClutchPoints. “I had two herniated discs, had a scary situation when I was with the Nets where I had lost some sensation in my left leg, and then we addressed that ASAP because it’s a serious thing. We got a handle on that. I had the surgery and then rehabbed last summer and just been focused on maintaining my back strength and core strength.” -via Clutch Points / March 17, 2025
“One had happened earlier, and obviously you want to stay away from having surgeries and things like that, so we did everything we could to keep me out there and keep me going until, obviously, I had to have the surgery. That was for my best interest, so we did that the first time. It went all right, it went okay in terms of the rehab and how it’s feeling, and just had some other symptoms that were similar to the first one. I got another scan, then I had another herniation, so got that cleaned up the second time. And it was day and night in terms of how it was feeling, moving day-to-day with that second surgery.” -via Clutch Points / March 17, 2025
“I think you always care to an extent. You don’t want people saying bad things about you, but it’s got to be a bad thing for me to really be pissed off. People say what they want. At the end of the day, that doesn’t affect my day-to-day, you know? So I just do what I do. I come to work, work hard, and do my job. -via Clutch Points / March 17, 2025
Atlanta Hawks PR: Dyson Daniels has his 191st steal of the season with his fourth theft of the game. He is now tied with Ricky Rubio (191 STL, 82 GP), for the most steals in a single NBA season since 2013-14. -via Twitter @HawksPR / March 16, 2025
Brad Rowland: Dyson Daniels now leads the NBA with 229 stocks, passing Victor Wembanyama last night. If that holds, he’d be the first guard to lead the NBA in stocks since Michael Jordan in 1987-88. (And he has a 46-stock lead on anyone not named Wemby.) -via Bluesky / March 14, 2025
Atlanta Hawks PR: With his first steal of the game, Dyson Daniels (181) has tied Doc Rivers (181, 1988-89) for the seventh-most steals in a single season in franchise history. Tonight is Daniels’ 61st game of the season. -via Twitter @HawksPR / March 12, 2025