The two prestigious All-NBL teams for the 2025-26 season were named at the competition\u2019s Monday night awards evening, held in front of a star-studded Crown Palladium.<\/p>\n
Headlining the First-Team are Andrew Gaze MVP Trophy finalists, Bryce Cotton from the Adelaide 36ers and Kendric Davis from the Sydney Kings.<\/p>\n
Rounding out the \u00a0All-NBL First Team for the 2025-26 season are South East Melbourne duo Nathan Sobey and John Brown III, as well as Perth\u2019s Kristian Doolittle.<\/p>\n
Brown III has been a revelation in his first season in the NBL, taking out the Damian Martin Trophy for the Best Defensive Player, while powering the Phoenix to their best-ever regular season record.<\/p>\n
Along with Brown III, Sobey and Doolittle both were shortlisted nominees for the MVP award, proving pivotal cogs in helping their respective side reach the post-season.<\/p>\n
Former MVP Xavier Cooks (Sydney Kings) is on the All-NBL Second Team, alongside fellow Australian Boomer, Jack McVeigh (Cairns Taipans).<\/p>\n
Also making the All-NBL Second Team are imports Parker Jackson-Cartwright (New Zealand), Bryce Hamilton (Tasmania) and Zylan Cheatham (Adelaide).<\/p>\n
All-NBL First Team<\/p>\n
Bryce Cotton (Adelaide 36ers) – 54 votes
Kendric Davis (Sydney Kings) \u00a0– 52 votes
Nathan Sobey (South East Melbourne Phoenix) \u00a0– 52 votes
Kristian Doolittle (Perth Wildcats) – 51 votes
John Brown III (South East Melbourne Phoenix) – 36 votes<\/p>\n
All-NBL Second Team<\/p>\n
Jack McVeigh (Cairns Taipans) \u00a0– 31 votes
Parker Jackson-Cartwright (New Zealand Breakers) \u00a0– 30 votes
Xavier Cooks (Sydney Kings) \u00a0– 30 votes
Bryce Hamilton (Tasmania JackJumpers) – 28 votes
Zylan Cheatham (Adelaide 36ers) \u00a0\u2013 23 votes<\/p>\n
The NBL26 Finals tip off on Wednesday, March 4, with the Seeding Qualifier between South East Melbourne and Perth at John Cain Arena from 7.30pm AEDT, live on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two prestigious All-NBL teams for the 2025-26 season were named at the competition\u2019s Monday night awards evening,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-499496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}