Oklahoma Metropolis’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokic and Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo had been the one gamers to seem on each MVP poll this season.
It solely made sense that they’d be unanimous All-NBA picks as effectively.
Gilgeous-Alexander — the league’s MVP — together with Jokic and Antetokounmpo had been unveiled Friday evening as first-team All-NBA gamers, together with Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell.
Tatum was one other unanimous first-team choose. Mitchell made the primary group for the primary time.
Antetokounmpo has seven first-team choices and 9 appearances on the All-NBA group total. Jokic is a five-time first-teamer and seven-time All-NBA choose, Tatum is first-team for the fourth time (fifth total), Gilgeous-Alexander has been first-team in all three of his All-NBA appearances, and Mitchell is All-NBA for the second time in his profession.
Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic, Antetokounmpo and Tatum had been all first-teamers final season as effectively.
Second group
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers is an All-NBA participant for the twenty first time in 22 seasons. He made the second group.
Additionally on the second group: Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards, Cleveland’s Evan Mobley, Golden State’s Stephen Curry and New York’s Jalen Brunson.
Curry made All-NBA for the eleventh time, one thing solely 21 gamers in NBA historical past have accomplished. Edwards and Brunson are two-time All-NBA gamers, and Mobley made a group for the primary time.
Third group
Detroit’s Cade Cunningham, Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton, the Los Angeles Clippers’ James Harden, New York’s Karl-Anthony Cities and Oklahoma Metropolis’s Jalen Williams had been named to the third group.
Harden is an eight-time choice, Cities is a three-time choose, Haliburton made a group for the second time and Cunningham and Williams each are All-NBA for the primary time.
All 100 ballots
Eight gamers appeared on each poll. Antetokounmpo, Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic and Tatum all obtained 100 first-team votes.
Mitchell obtained 61 first-team votes, 35 second-team and 4 third-team. Edwards obtained 11 first-team, 87 second-team and two third-team. Curry obtained two first-team, 68 second-team and 30 third-team. And Brunson obtained two first-team, 62 second-team and 36 third-team.
James and Cunningham had been on 99 of 100 ballots.
Giannis: The folks’s selection, once more
For the eighth consecutive 12 months, Antetokounmpo was listed on each All-NBA poll. That is the longest energetic run within the NBA.
The final time an All-NBA poll was despatched to the league with out Antetokounmpo’s identify listed was 2017, when 4 of the 100 voters didn’t rank him among the many league’s prime gamers.
Since then: 799 ballots solid, 799 itemizing Antetokounmpo.
Jokic appeared on each All-NBA poll for the fifth consecutive 12 months; it could be six in a row if he hadn’t fallen one vote wanting unanimous standing in 2020. Jayson Tatum was on each All-NBA poll for the fourth consecutive season.
LeBron: The primary at 40
James is the primary 40-year-old to make an All-NBA group — he turned 40 in December.
James has 13 first-team appearances, 4 second-team choices and 4 third-team nods.
No different participant has greater than 15 All-NBA choices. Kobe Bryant (11 first-team picks), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (10 first-team picks) and Tim Duncan (10 first-team picks) are the opposite members of the 15-time membership.
Awards season
The discharge of the All-NBA groups wrapped up awards season within the league. A world panel of 100 writers and broadcasters despatched their votes to the NBA earlier than the playoffs began.
These awards voted on by the panel included Gilgeous-Alexander successful MVP, Cleveland’s Kenny Atkinson successful coach of the 12 months, Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels successful most improved participant, San Antonio’s Stephon Fort successful rookie of the 12 months, Mobley successful defensive participant of the 12 months, Brunson successful clutch participant of the 12 months, and Boston’s Payton Pritchard successful sixth man of the 12 months.
Additionally chosen by that panel: the All-NBA group, together with the All-Defensive group and All-Rookie group.
There have been different awards chosen by varied different voting processes, together with Oklahoma Metropolis’s Sam Presti successful govt of the 12 months, Boston’s Jrue Vacation successful the social justice award and the sportsmanship award, Curry successful the Twyman-Stokes teammate of the 12 months award, and Golden State’s Draymond Inexperienced successful the hustle award.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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