In today’s sports world, agreement is rare. Every accolade sparks debate, every award invites a counter-argument. That’s what made the 2026 NFL Honors feel so unusual. When Myles Garrett walked onstage in San Francisco—cowboy hat tilted just right, 23 sacks behind him—the argument was already over.

For the first time in the history of the Defensive Player of the Year award, all 50 Associated Press voters reached the same conclusion. No protest votes. No contrarian takes. Just consensus. Garrett didn’t merely win DPOY for the 2025 season—he reset the framework for how defensive greatness is judged.

Here are four takeaways that explain why this moment matters far beyond the box score.

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On the bus ride from Beverly Hills to Inglewood, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Kenny Atkinson kept coming back to one word: weird. Inside the Clippers’ new Intuit Dome, that feeling only intensified. As the Cavaliers steamrolled Los Angeles 124–91, the scene felt less like a regular-season game and more like a glitch in the NBA’s emotional circuitry.

Above the court, a rotating billboard welcomed Darius Garland in a digitally altered Clippers jersey. Below it, the real Garland sat courtside near “The Wall,” sidelined by injury, watching the team he helped build dismantle the franchise he had just joined. The image captured the modern NBA perfectly: loyalty and business colliding in real time, under LED lights.

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By trading for James Harden, the Cavaliers didn’t just add a superstar—they made a statement. This is no longer a patient rebuild or a long-term development project. This is a franchise declaring that now is the time, that the window is open, and that waiting is no longer an option.

The question echoing across the NBA is simple but uncomfortable: is this an all-in masterstroke—or a gamble Cleveland will regret?

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