Dyson Daniels, Draymond Green, Amen Thompson, Luguentz Dort and Evan Mobley were named to the NBA’s All-Defensive First Team on Thursday, the league announced.
While Green has nine appearances on the NBA All-Defensive team, this is the first time since the 2020-21 NBA season that he was named to the first team. His resurgence comes a year after Green failed to make the All-Defensive team after playing in just 55 games. Under NBA rules, players must appear in at least 65 games to be eligible to make the NBA All-Defensive team.
Mobley, this season’s NBA Defensive Player of the Award winner, was named to the NBA All-Defensive team for the second time in his career. He also achieved the honor during the 2022-23 NBA season.
It’s the first time Daniels, Dort and Thompson received All-Defensive team honors. Dort’s inclusion on that list should make Charles Barkley happy after he profanely criticized voters for not recognizing Dort’s defensive prowess sooner.
Rudy Gobert is no stranger to making the NBA All-Defensive team. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)
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Toumani Camara, Rudy Gobert, Jaren Jackson Jr., Jalen Williams and Ivica Zubac were named to the second team, the league announced Thursday.
It marks the eighth time in his career Gobert has made the NBA’s All-Defensive team, but the first time he’s been named as a member of the second team.
Gobert’s previous seven selections came as a member of the first team. He’s won four Defensive Player of the Year awards due to his rebounding and shot-blocking ability.
Jackson finds himself in a similar situation. It’s the third time in his career he’s made the NBA All-Defensive team, but the first time he’s been elected to the second team. Jackson won the Defensive Player of the Year award in 2023.
Camara, Williams and Zubac are all first-time members of the NBA All-Defensive team.
The NBA also released full voting results for the All-Defensive teams. Mobley led all vote getters in points. He was named to the first team on 99 of 100 ballots. Only one person placed Mobley on the second team.
Voters seemingly didn’t have a tough time choosing the first team. Thompson received the lowest number of first-team votes among first-team members with 74. The next player in the voting, Zubac, received 29 first-team votes.
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