Steven Adams is as tough as they come in the NBA.

It is a statement that most players have agreed with, and now, it is a statement that the league’s general managers apparently agree with, too.

In the 2018-19 GM Survey released on Wednesday, Adams was named the toughest player in the league by the 30 general managers polled in the survey.

In last year’s survey, Adams was tied for first place with 14 percent of the vote along with Draymond Green and Kawhi Leonard. Now, he took top honors in this year’s poll.

Adams has been known to be a pest on the court.

He has earned a reputation over the years as a player that will do his fair share of dirty work on the floor. He is among the league’s best at rebounding and he has been known to lay down some hard screens, as well.

In April, Kevin Durant said the physicality with Adams has always been there.

“The long hair and the beard and all of that stuff didn’t show up until later, but the physicality and the bruiser was there since Day One,” Durant said. “The look kind of grew with his play a little bit. [He] definitely looks the part now and plays the part.”

Prior to joining the Thunder, Paul George once thought Adams was “just some cocky, arrogant dude who always just wanted to start trouble.” Once he got to know Adams, though, his opinion changed.

“He’s actually an incredible teammate,” George said. “He’s actually pretty funny. He does want those problems down there, that is actually true. I think it comes from him just being a physical player and that comes with altercations.”

Perhaps the most colorful comment we’ve seen about Adams and his strength and toughness came courtesy of Jimmy Butler last season after Adams hit him with a screen.

“That [expletive] is strong,” Butler said of Adams. “I’m serious, he hit me with one screen today, and I thought my life was over.”

Earlier this year, Complex released a list of the nine dirtiest players in the league and Adams made an appearance on that list after several mishaps over the years.

So, it is official: Adams is one tough dude.