NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama was the unanimous pick as Defensive Player of the Year this season, and the only unanimous All-Defensive team selection as well.<\/p>\n
The San Antonio star \u2014 as expected, given how the DPOY voting went \u2014 appeared on all 100 first-team ballots and made first-team All-Defense for the second time in his three NBA seasons. The team was announced Friday night.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City’s Chet Holmgren, Detroit’s Ausar Thompson, Minnesota’s Rudy Gobert and Boston’s Derrick White rounded out the first team. Gobert is now a nine-time All-Defensive team pick, while Holmgren, Thompson and White were all first-time selections to the first team.<\/p>\n
The second team was Toronto’s Scottie Barnes, Oklahoma City’s Cason Wallace, Miami’s Bam Adebayo, New York’s OG Anunoby and Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels.<\/p>\n
Gobert and Daniels are the only players that have made the All-Defensive team in each of the last two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama was the unanimous pick as Defensive Player of the Year this season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20768,45445,53250,11244,51874,11719,96760,110706,46764,202,196,1033,87657,88829,87447,41978,198,199,61343,942,24219,82,84,83,99826,11724,509],"class_list":["post-306403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-ausar-thompson","tag-bam-adebayo","tag-cason-wallace","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-derrick-white","tag-detroit","tag-dyson-daniels","tag-nba-all-defensive-team","tag-o-g-anunoby","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-product-40793-ap-minnesota-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-product-40807-ap-oklahoma-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-rudy-gobert","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-scottie-barnes","tag-toronto","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306403","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=306403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}