Kawhi Leonard - All Rookie 1st Team

[nadroj117]

Not that this is a surprise to any of us SA fans, but well deserved and glad he's getting noticed.

Others Making the First team

Irving
Rubio
Faried
Klay Thompson
Shumpart
Knight

[tesseractive]

Not that this is a surprise to any of us SA fans, but well deserved and glad he's getting noticed.

Others Making the First team

Irving
Rubio
Faried
Klay Thompson
Shumpart
Knight

There are 7 guys on the first team? How does that work exactly?

[Mel_13]

The Cleveland Cavaliers' Kyrie Irving, the 2011-12 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year, and the Minnesota Timberwolves' Ricky Rubio headline the 2011-12 NBA All-Rookie First Team, the NBA announced today. Irving was the lone unanimous selection.

Joining Irving (58 points) and Rubio (49 points) on the NBA All-Rookie First Team are Denver's Kenneth Faried (46 points), Golden State's Klay Thompson (43 points), New York's Iman Shumpert (40 points), San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard (40 points) and Detroit's Brandon Knight (40 points).

Irving, the league's top-scoring rookie, was named Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for games played in December/January, February and March. He finished the season with averages of 18.5 points, 5.4 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 1.1 steals, becoming one of only six rookies in league history to average at least 18.0 points, 5.0 assists, and 1.0 steal while shooting at least .450 from the field (Alvan Adams, Grant Hill, Tyreke Evans, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan).

Rubio, the Western Conference Rookie of the Month for games played in December/January, appeared in 41 games during an injury-shortened debut season, averaging 10.6 points, a rookie-best 8.2 assists, and 4.2 rebounds. He also led rookies with 2.2 steals.

Faried averaged 10.2 points, a rookie-best 7.7 rebounds and 1.0 block for Denver, garnering Western Conference Player of the Month honors for games played in April. His .586 field goal percentage paced first-year players.

Thompson averaged 12.5 points while shooting a rookie-best .414 from three-point range, 2.4 rebounds and 2.0 assists.

Shumpert, Leonard and Knight tied for the fifth spot on the All-Rookie First Team. Shumpert averaged 9.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.7 steals. Leonard posted 7.9 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.1 assists. Knight tallied averages of 12.8 points, 3.8 assists and 3.2 rebounds.

The NBA All-Rookie Second Team consists of Houston's Chandler Parsons (33 points), Sacramento's Isaiah Thomas (27 points), New Jersey's MarShon Brooks (18 points), Minnesota's Derrick Williams (16 points) and Cleveland's Tristan Thompson (16 points).

The voting panel consisted of the NBA's 30 head coaches, who were asked to select five players for the first team and five players for the second team, regardless of position. Coaches were not permitted to vote for players on their own team. Two points were awarded for first team votes and one for second team votes.

Attached are the results of the balloting for the 2011-12 NBA All-Rookie teams. The balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP.

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/05/22/all-rookie-team-release/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

[PBEEZY]

There are 7 guys on the first team? How does that work exactly?

New York's Iman Shumpert (40 points), San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard (40 points) and Detroit's Brandon Knight (40 points).

[Mel_13]

There are 7 guys on the first team? How does that work exactly?

3-way tie for 5th place in the voting.

[coyotes_geek]

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/04/07/11/1077851/3/628x471.jpg

"There's an all rookie team? Congrats to whoever on it. Oh, I'm on it? That's nice. I guess."

[OZWIN]

I absolutely love watching Leonard play...such an amazing player and he never gives up on the play. Looking forward to seeing how he does against Durant in this upcoming series.

Congrats to Leonard on making the all rookie team.

[Spurs da champs]

Well deserved.

[Obstructed_View]

I should get a nickel every time someone posts that picture...

[Spur|n|Austin]

I should get a nickel every time someone posts that picture...

http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CarrollBOS.jpg

"And I should get a nickel every time timvp tries to use my articles for his posts. "

[Mel_13]

11-12: Leonard (1st team)
10-11: Neal (1st team)
09-10: Blair (2nd team)

[phxspurfan]

no favors huh

[coyotes_geek]

no favors huh

Not a rookie.

It just seems like he's new to the NBA since he was previously in New Jersey.

[Spurs da champs]

I hope Pop realizes he can be so much more than a spot up 3 point shooter, he's got Pippen potential.

[FromWayDowntown]

11-12: Leonard (1st team)
10-11: Neal (1st team)
09-10: Blair (2nd team)

Six members of the current Spurs roster made all-rookie teams -- Duncan ('98), Parker ('02), Ginobili ('03), Blair ('10), Neal ('11), Leonard ('12) -- and all did it with the Spurs.

[timvp]

Wow, Leonard almost got screwed. Knight and Shumpert were good but Leonard was obviously better.

[Spur|n|Austin]

Six members of the current Spurs roster made all-rookie teams -- Duncan ('98), Parker ('02), Ginobili ('03), Blair ('10), Neal ('11), Leonard ('12) -- and all did it with the Spurs.

Nice! Good research!

[davidbowie]

congrats kwame

[coyotes_geek]

Six members of the current Spurs roster made all-rookie teams -- Duncan ('98), Parker ('02), Ginobili ('03), Blair ('10), Neal ('11), Leonard ('12) -- and all did it with the Spurs.

It would have been seven if RJ was still here!

Six is plenty.........

[spursfan 73]

Thank god we're good and don't have to be in the lottery

those are the best rookies in the NBA? Yikes.

[Obstructed_View]

Wow, Leonard almost got screwed. Knight and Shumpert were good but Leonard was obviously better.

Shocking that he didn't get screwed, since this team is almost always named by the guys who scored the most points.

[loveforthegame]

Congrats to Leonard. Well deserved.

[slick'81]

hill who lol

[lefty]

Kwame Leonard
Kahwa Len...


Ginooooooooooooooobli !!!!!!

[Sa_Spursfan20]

Big congratulations to Leonard on making it to the team. The dude truly deserved it.

[baseline bum]

Wow, Leonard almost got screwed. Knight and Shumpert were good but Leonard was obviously better.

You like Shumpert? Every time I watched the Knicks he just seemed like a chucker on offense. No way he makes the rookie 1st team playing anywhere but New York.

[nadroj117]

You like Shumpert? Every time I watched the Knicks he just seemed like a chucker on offense. No way he makes the rookie 1st team playing anywhere but New York.

Shumpert is going to be a good player. He's one that can play on both sides of the ball. His defense is very commendable

[will_spurs]

This is really disappointing in a way, as Kawhi should be #3 (at most #4 behind Faried) instead of being in a lucky 3-way tie for 5th place. I've already said in another thread that when all is said and done, Kawhi will have had the best career of any player in his draft class.

[_jin]

Brandon Knight meh
Kawhi should have been #4
and Shumpert and Chandler Parsons tied for 5

[timvp]

You like Shumpert? Every time I watched the Knicks he just seemed like a chucker on offense.He was good for a rookie. His offense was horrendously ugly but he was immediately probably a top 20 perimeter defender in the league.


No way he makes the rookie 1st team playing anywhere but New York.Agreed. If he played in New Orleans or Utah he doesn't even get a vote.

[TDMVPDPOY]

fck scrubs producingon scrub teams against scrubs in their conference

KL is legit forcing his way into the starting lineup, playing against top competition in the west and gettin the hard assignments....

fkn voting fail when u have shuumps and faried on first team...where were they in the first round? oh yeh eating losses

[coyotes_geek]

fck scrubs producingon scrub teams against scrubs in their conference

KL is legit forcing his way into the starting lineup, playing against top competition in the west and gettin the hard assignments....

fkn voting fail when u have shuumps and faried on first team...where were they in the first round? oh yeh eating losses

That's just the nature of the beast with rookie honors. The best players usually end up on the crappiest teams, so it all ends up being about individual numbers and notoriety. Spurs fans watched Leonard all year and know the impact he has on games. Everyone else sees a stat line that only says 8 points and 5 boards.

[Aztecfan03]

Wow, Leonard almost got screwed. Knight and Shumpert were good but Leonard was obviously better.

They don't really take overall play into account do they.

btw how is irving the only unanimous selection?

[DMC]

Shumpert seemed hurt most of the year.

[Manu-20]

It amazes how much respect big markets get from the media, a chump like shump gets voted in all first team and kawhi a much better overall player just better player period is behind him new york is just garbage and like some said it's only because shump played in new york he got the votes he did.

[timtonymanu]

Good honor for Kawhi. Even though, he probably doesn't know he made it.

[angelbelow]

Spurs have repeated! First Neal and now Leonard.

[TDMVPDPOY]

championship ring> roy + rookie team....

[slick'81]

Great for kawhi but we all know he isnt impressed lol

[rjv]

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/04/07/11/1077851/3/628x471.jpg

"There's an all rookie team? Congrats to whoever on it. Oh, I'm on it? That's nice. I guess."

:lol

[freetiago]

More proof why people should never put media voted awards when trying to compare players

if i had to vote for rookie first team it would be
irving
rubio
isiah thomas
kenneth faried
leonard

2nd
parsons
shumpert
knight
thompson
and some other scrub

thompson imo doesnt deserve all 1st team
he only plays well since his team is told to lose on purpose and he doesnt have to play in a structured enviroment
if he misses shots theres no pressure, all hes told to do is go out and get big stats

thomas is a very good true pg and he has the stats to back it up
if the kings dump tyreke evans which it sounds like they want to
a core of the improving cousins, thornton and thomas could make the 8th seed or possibly higher if they get some nice vets to balance out the manchilds

[_jin]

You guys are blaming others for underrating Kawhi, which is true (because they didn't see him play night in and out), but you are doing the same with Shumpert. He was average at the beginning of the season because he was playing PG, which he is absolutely not. Once he moved to the wing he could display his excellent perimeter defense and his ability to drive, and his athleticism is off the charts. He needs to improve his shooting and his shot selection but I believe he'll be really good.

[Darkwaters]

Six members of the current Spurs roster made all-rookie teams -- Duncan ('98), Parker ('02), Ginobili ('03), Blair ('10), Neal ('11), Leonard ('12) -- and all did it with the Spurs.

Duncan and Parker were both first teamers, as well as Neal and now Leonard.

Ironically enough, Ginobili was actually an All Rookie 2nd Team guy.

[Wild Cobra Kai]

Duncan and Parker were both first teamers, as well as Neal and now Leonard.

Ironically enough, Ginobili was actually an All Rookie 2nd Team guy.

Injured until January, IIRC.