The NBA has announced its All-Rookie teams for the 2016/17 season, with Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon and Sixers forward Dario Saric headlining the First Team. Brogdon and Saric were the only two players who were unanimously named to the NBA’s All-Rookie First Team.
Here’s the full breakdown of this year’s All-Rookie squads:
First Team:
- Malcolm Brogdon (Bucks)
- Dario Saric (Sixers)
- Joel Embiid (Sixers)
- Buddy Hield (Kings)
- Willy Hernangomez (Knicks)
Second Team:
- Jamal Murray (Nuggets)
- Jaylen Brown (Celtics)
- Marquese Chriss (Suns)
- Brandon Ingram (Lakers)
- Yogi Ferrell (Mavericks)
Brogdon, Saric, and Embiid are the finalists for the 2016/17 NBA Rookie of the Year award, which will be announced later tonight during the league’s TV broadcast on TNT.
I think Brown should also be in contention for the award because he is the only player that played meaningful minutes in the playoffs and was able to produce during those minutes as well. That deserves some type of recognition. Do I think he would win the award if he was even was in the running? Probably not, but I think he has at least earned the right to be finalist for the award.
these are regular season awards dude
It’s a regular season award, chief.
Malcolm brogdon was in the playoffs….just sayin.
Sleeping on Caris LeVert and Isaiah Whitehead
sleepin on the nets record
Because the Sixers and Lakers records were so great?
They were tanking for a draft pick. The nets had a swap, so what was their excuse… help the Cs??
Probably the 3rd team.
Before even thinking about others right now, Rodney McGruder got snubbed hard here. Whatever. Keeps that chip on his shoulder
Wait how was Jaylen Brown only on the 2nd team? These votes this year are a joke. I know rookie production wasn’t entirely there this year, but man…these people mailed it in on the voting
Because these awards only care about numbers and Jaylen didn’t get the playing time for that. I don’t think it’s too terrible of a snub. I think he has more promise than some guys on the first team but he just didn’t play enough.
Talking about his minutes and then seeing Hernangomez, Hield on the 1st eam, and Ferrell on the 2nd team…..Embiid shpuld be 1st team, but he played 31 games, so playing time isn’t the issue…Brown contributed on both ends of the floor from the early part of the year, and he did it on a winning team. He also stepped up when Avery Bradley was injured. Winslow had the same snub a couple of years ago. All these people care about is points or whoever played for the knicks
Unless the rookie is playing at an All-NBA defensive level in his first year, its unlikely that the writers are going to take defense into much consideration (it’ll get some, but rookies are expected to struggle defensively as they adjust so while a good defensive season by a rookie should probably be considered in this vote, it won’t hold much weight). At the end of the day, the writers (and most fans) only care about the simple counting stats (points, assists, rebounds, steals, blocks). They don’t care what the player contributes to his team’s offense or defense if it doesn’t show up in the box score.
Ya but if you look at the last few months of the season, the numbers are a lot different too. If guys like Ferrell are getting 2nd team votes, and Hernangomez and Hield are getting 1st team votes, Jaylen Brown absolutely should have been First team All Rookie
How? That dude never averaged more than 8 points a game during any month and his plus/minus really had no effect on them winning. What quantifies him being snubbed? Who do you remove for him?
Tyler Ulis ?????????
He should get credit for 2 months of good basketball?
For the record, I’m against Embiid and his 31 games netting consideration as well.
Buddy Hield was fire once he came to Sacramento shooting 43% from 3 with what was mostly spare parts for the roster.
I don’t think he should win the ROY but he definitely earned his way to the first team spot. Mostly because the rookie crop was weak until late in the season.