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There are 7 guys on the first team? How does that work exactly?
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?
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/a...s=iref:nbahpt2
New York's Iman Shumpert (40 points), San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard (40 points) and Detroit's Brandon Knight (40 points).
3-way tie for 5th place in the voting.
"There's an all rookie team? Congrats to whoever on it. Oh, I'm on it? That's nice. I guess."
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.
Well deserved.
I should get a nickel every time someone posts that picture...
"And I should get a nickel every time timvp tries to use my articles for his posts. "
11-12: Leonard (1st team)
10-11: Neal (1st team)
09-10: Blair (2nd team)
no favors huh
Not a rookie.
It just seems like he's new to the NBA since he was previously in New Jersey.
I hope Pop realizes he can be so much more than a spot up 3 point shooter, he's got Pippen potential.
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.
Wow, Leonard almost got screwed. Knight and Shumpert were good but Leonard was obviously better.
Nice! Good research!
congrats kwame
It would have been seven if RJ was still here!
Six is plenty.........
Thank god we're good and don't have to be in the lottery
those are the best rookies in the NBA? Yikes.
Shocking that he didn't get screwed, since this team is almost always named by the guys who scored the most points.
Congrats to Leonard. Well deserved.
hill who lol
Kwame Leonard
Kahwa Len...
Ginooooooooooooooobli !!!!!!
Big congratulations to Leonard on making it to the team. The dude truly deserved it.
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