{"id":689892,"date":"2026-05-23T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689892\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:43:10","slug":"bulls-t-scottie-barnes-reacts-to-snub-after-nba-all-defensive-1st-team-2025-26-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/689892\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bulls&#8211;t,&#8217; Scottie Barnes Reacts to Snub After NBA All-Defensive 1st-Team 2025-26 Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes was unhappy he missed out on an All-Defensive first team selection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After the results of the 2025-26 All-Defensive team were released on Friday with Barnes on the second team, the Raptors star posted a &#8220;bulls&#8211;t&#8221; response on X:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The race for the fifth and final spot on the first team was very close between Barnes and Derrick White, with just 16 total points separating them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Barnes&#8217; use of multiple laughing and smiling emojis suggests he isn&#8217;t too aggrieved to be on the second team, but it does provide him with more motivation as he begins offseason workouts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 24-year-old is coming off the best season of his career in 2025-26. He made the All-Star team, All-Defensive team and finished fifth in Defensive Player of the Year voting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Toronto had a 16-win improvement from the previous season, going from 30 wins in 2024-25 to 46 this season. The Raptors made the playoffs for the first time since 2021-22, losing in the first round to the Cleveland Cavaliers in seven games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes was unhappy he missed out on an All-Defensive first team selection. After the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-689892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689892","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=689892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}