Draymond Green came up short in his bid to win a second Defensive Player of the Year award when results were announced on Thursday.

Cleveland’s Evan Mobley, a 6-foot-10 center from Riverside County, won the award for the first time. Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels was second in voting, and Green placed third.

The award is voted on by media members and broadcasters. Mobley received 35 first-place votes and 285 points in all. Daniels had 197 points (he received 25 first-place votes) and Green received 15 first-place votes and finished with 154 points.

Mobley and Green are both playing in the first round, while Daniels’ Hawks were knocked out in the play-in tournament.

Green has played against Houston’s Amen Thompson, another defensive standout who was not a finalist for the award.

Green previously won the award after the 2016-17 season, the same year the Warriors captured their second NBA title of their dynastic run over the last decade.

Green, favored to make his ninth all-defense team, averaged 1.5 steals and 1.0 blocks per game this season. Aside from those more traditional stats, he also contests 9.4 shots per game.

The Warriors led the league in defensive rating (109.0) since February’s blockbuster trade for Jimmy Butler, but voters proved that they assigned the majority of the credit to Green for the turnaround.

Green was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Month for March after the Warriors went 11-4.

Kerr on Rockets fans

Even as the physicality escalated on the court in Game 2 of the Warriors’ first-round playoff series against the Rockets, coach Steve Kerr believed the fans inside the sold-out Toyota Center crossed the line.

“It’s not ideal when a crowd is chanting ‘F you, Draymond,’ ” Kerr said after Golden State’s 109-94 loss Wednesday night evened the series at a game apiece. “I’m all for fans cheering for their team, and if they want to yell at the opponents, great. But I just think ‘F you’ is a little much.”

The four-letter word rang out in unison as the clock wound down and Green sprawled out on his seat on the Warriors’ bench. It wasn’t the first time an opposing crowd directed the chant toward Green, also notably in Boston during the 2022 NBA Finals.

Green seemed to be less bothered by the obscenities than his coach.

“It’s not original,” he said and shrugged while polishing his sunglasses behind the microphone. “Been there before, won a championship while it was happening. Can’t steal other people’s (stuff). That belongs to Boston.”

Nonetheless, as the series shifts to San Francisco, it has already taken on the intensity of some of the Warriors’ fiercest previous battles.

“Houston played great; they were really physical, just like we expected,” Kerr said. “We’ve just got to lick our wounds, and back to work tomorrow.”

“This is who we’ve been all season,” Houston forward Tari Eason said. “We’ve been a tough team. We’ve been a gritty, grindy team all season. We are who we are.”

The Rockets out-rebounded the Warriors by double digits and held them to less than 100 points for the second consecutive game, but they also showed they weren’t afraid to muck it up. The teams combined for six technical fouls — three apiece — and it could have been more.

Neither Green nor Fred VanVleet were T’d up after exchanging words late in the fourth quarter, leading to both benches spilling onto the court and needing to be separated. The only foul assessed was on Eason, who threw a towel into the group of Golden State players.

“With them, some of the guys they’ve got over there, their thing is to try to beat you mentally,” Eason said.

He didn’t name names. But the Houston crowd did.

“He’s a competitor, he’s always going to be in the mix. I’ll ride with Draymond forever,” Kerr said. “Because of his career, his championships, his fire, he’s going to be a lightning rod. That’s all part of it. I would prefer fans use a little bit more discretion and remember the guy has kids. Maybe I’m old school.”

Green said he thought it was “a little less physical than Game 1,” and after some thought, Stephen Curry concurred.

“There were just a couple crashes that happened out there,” Curry said. “We know what their M.O. is and what they’re trying to do: Use their size and their athleticism to try to bully us.”

Staff writer Evan Webeck contributed to this story.