{"id":663886,"date":"2026-05-25T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663886\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:05:10","slug":"gilgeous-alexander-jokic-wembanyama-doncic-and-cunningham-make-first-team-all-nba-the-press-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/663886\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic, Wembanyama, Doncic and Cunningham make first-team All-NBA \u2013 The Press Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By TIM REYNOLDS<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Oklahoma City and Nikola Jokic of Denver were unanimous first-team All-NBA selections this season, while San Antonio\u2019s Victor Wembanyama missed joining them in that club by one vote.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama, the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 Luka Doncic and Detroit\u2019s Cade Cunningham completed the All-NBA first team, the NBA said Sunday while releasing the vote totals.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama (99 first-team votes, one second-team vote) and Doncic (91 first-team, nine second-team) also appeared on all 100 ballots, as did Boston\u2019s Jaylen Brown. But Brown had significantly fewer first-team nods than Cunningham, which is why the Pistons guard ended up on that top list.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham appeared on 98 ballots, with 60 first-team and 38 second-team votes. Brown got 44 first-team votes, 54 second-team votes and two third-team votes \u2014 only good enough to get him on the All-NBA second team.<\/p>\n<p>Jokic made All-NBA for the eighth time, Doncic for the sixth time, Gilgeous-Alexander for the fourth time, Cunningham for the second time and Wembanyama for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Second team<\/p>\n<p>Joining Brown on the second team was Kawhi Leonard of the Los Angeles Clippers, Cleveland\u2019s Donovan Mitchell, Houston\u2019s Kevin Durant and New York\u2019s Jalen Brunson.<\/p>\n<p>Durant became the 12th player with 12 All-NBA selections. 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>Third team<\/p>\n<p>The All-NBA third team was Philadelphia\u2019s Tyrese Maxey, Denver\u2019s Jamal Murray, Atlanta\u2019s Jalen Johnson, Detroit\u2019s Jalen Duren and Oklahoma City\u2019s Chet Holmgren.<\/p>\n<p>All five of those players are now All-NBA picks for the first times in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 12 other players got votes.<\/p>\n<p>No LeBron, Steph, Giannis<\/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>Jokic was on every ballot for the sixth consecutive year, giving him the longest active streak in that department.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By TIM REYNOLDS Associated Press Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of Oklahoma City and Nikola Jokic of Denver were unanimous first-team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-663886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663886","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=663886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}