{"id":697253,"date":"2026-05-27T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697253\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:54:12","slug":"shai-gilgeous-alexander-nikola-jokic-lead-way-on-kia-all-nba-first-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697253\/","title":{"rendered":"Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Joki\u0107 lead way on Kia All-NBA First Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2215772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALL-NBA-FIRST-TEAM-OPTION-1-CADE-DONCIC-SGA-JOKIC-WEMBY-16x9-yt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The NBA announced the league\u2019s Kia All-NBA teams Sunday ahead of the Thunder meeting the Spurs in Game 4 of the Western Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Victor Wembanyama, Cade Cunningham, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Nikola Joki\u0107 were named to the All-NBA First Team.<\/p>\n<p>The media voting panel selects players to the Kia All-NBA Teams without regard to position. Players are awarded five points for each vote to the First Team, three points for each vote to the Second Team and one point for each vote to the Third Team.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander and Joki\u0107 were named to the First Team on 100 out of 100 ballots, while Wembanyama was named First Team on 99 ballots.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A global media panel of 100 voters selected the 2025-26 Kia All-NBA Team.<\/p>\n<p>The complete voting results \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7NbX05bwr2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7NbX05bwr2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2058690078193430673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown, Jalen Brunson, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and Donovan Mitchell were named to the Second Team, and Tyrese Maxey, Jamal Murray, Jalen Johnson, Chet Holmgren and Jalen Duren were named to the Third Team. Brown was named to the First Team on 44 ballots, the most of any player outside the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Durant became the 12th player with 12 All-NBA selections.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard is now a seven-time All-NBA pick, Brunson and Mitchell are now three-time selections and Brown made it for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>All the players on the Third Team made All-NBA for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2215789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ALL-NBA-SECOND-TEAM-OPTION-2-BROWN-BRUNSON-KD-LEONARD-MITCHELL-16x9-yt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers was among those ineligible to get votes because he didn\u2019t play in enough games, meaning this became just the second time in his 23-season career that he was not an All-NBA pick.<\/p>\n<p>Also not eligible this year because of the 65-game rule: Golden State\u2019s Stephen Curry and Milwaukee\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo \u2014 whose streak of being listed on every All-NBA ballot for eight consecutive years ended.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n<p>Kia All-NBA First Team:<\/p>\n<p>Cade Cunningham, Luka Don\u010di\u0107, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Nikola Joki\u0107, Victor Wembanyama<\/p>\n<p>Kia All-NBA Second Team: <\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Brown, Jalen Brunson, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard, Donovan Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Kia All-NBA Third Team: <\/p>\n<p>Tyrese Maxey, Jamal Murray, Jalen Johnson, Chet Holmgren, Jalen Duren<\/p>\n<p>Full Voting Results<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2215802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2025-26-Kia-All-NBA-Team-Voting-Results-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2215803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2025-26-Kia-All-NBA-Team-Voting-Results-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA announced the league\u2019s Kia All-NBA teams Sunday ahead of the Thunder meeting the Spurs in Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[339871,64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-697253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-all-nba-teams-2025-26","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697253","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=697253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}