{"id":655464,"date":"2026-05-21T00:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655464\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:46:10","slug":"nba-all-rookie-1st-team-flagg-knueppel-edgecombe-harper-and-coward-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655464\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA All-Rookie 1st team: Flagg, Knueppel, Edgecombe, Harper and Coward :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Dallas&#8217; Cooper Flagg, Charlotte&#8217;s Kon Knueppel and Philadelphia&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe were unanimous first-team selections for the NBA&#8217;s All-Rookie team, which was unveiled Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Also making first-team All-Rookie: San Antonio&#8217;s Dylan Harper and Memphis&#8217; Cedric Coward. Harper also appeared on all 100 ballots, with 93 first-team nods and seven second-team votes.<\/p>\n<p>Those five players were also the only ones to get votes in the Rookie of the Year balloting, where Flagg edged Knueppel for top honors.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Rookie 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-Boyles.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA will announce the All-Defensive team on Friday and the All-NBA team on Sunday, with Coach of the Year set to be announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Dallas&#8217; Cooper Flagg, Charlotte&#8217;s Kon Knueppel and Philadelphia&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe were unanimous first-team selections&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[160359,2724,355,99],"class_list":["post-655464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}