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All-Defense: Who brought the D this season?

By John Hollinger
ESPN Insider

Thursday, April 10, 2008

It's time, once again, for the year-end awards, and there's one set of awards in particular that's extremely difficult to hand out. I'm referring to the All-Defense team, because choosing one remains as much art as science. Despite the best efforts of numbers guys, like me, to shine some light on individual defense, there still are many dark corners. Nonetheless, we have a couple of numbers that can prove useful. One of my favorites is "points saved," with the idea being to compare what a pl ...

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