{"id":302336,"date":"2026-05-21T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302336\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:29:10","slug":"dallas-cooper-flagg-among-unanimous-nba-all-rookie-first-team-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302336\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas&#8217; Cooper Flagg among unanimous NBA All\u2011Rookie first\u2011team picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas&#8217; Cooper Flagg<\/a>, Charlotte&#8217;s Kon Knueppel, and Philadelphia&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe were unanimous selections to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/nba\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBA&#8217;s All\u2011Rookie first team<\/a>, the league announced Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>They were joined on the first team by San Antonio&#8217;s Dylan Harper and Memphis&#8217; Cedric Coward. Harper appeared on all 100 ballots, receiving 93 first\u2011team votes and seven second\u2011team votes.<\/p>\n<p>Those five players were also the only ones to receive votes in the Rookie of the Year race, where Flagg edged Knueppel for the award.<\/p>\n<p>The All\u2011Rookie second team included New Orleans&#8217; Jeremiah Fears and Derik Queen, Utah&#8217;s Ace Bailey, Sacramento&#8217;s Maxime Reynaud, and Toronto&#8217;s Collin Murray\u2011Boyles.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA will announce the All\u2011Defensive Team on Friday, the All\u2011NBA Team on Sunday, and the Coach of the Year on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas&#8217; Cooper Flagg, Charlotte&#8217;s Kon Knueppel, and Philadelphia&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe were unanimous selections to the NBA&#8217;s All\u2011Rookie first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,2582,103,3080,10985,11729,154,2188],"class_list":["post-302336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans","tag-sacramento","tag-sports","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}