The competition for the league’s 15 All-NBA spots was fiercer than ever in 2020/21, with tens of millions of dollars up for grabs for certain players based on the voting results. Since the NBA has already started to announce its end-of-season award winners, we want to give you an opportunity to vote on the All-NBA rosters for 2020/21 before they’re officially revealed.
We started last Wednesday with the First Team before moving onto the Second Team on Friday. We’ve closed those polls and now we’re wrapping things up by focusing on the Third Team.
Here are the voting results so far:
- Guard: Stephen Curry (Warriors)
- Guard: Luka Doncic (Mavericks)
- Forward: Giannis Antetokounmpo (Bucks)
- Forward: Joel Embiid (Sixers)
- Center: Nikola Jokic (Nuggets)
- Guard: Damian Lillard (Trail Blazers)
- Guard: Bradley Beal (Wizards)
- Forward: Julius Randle (Knicks)
- Forward: LeBron James (Lakers)
- Center: Rudy Gobert (Jazz)
Lillard is a lock for the Second Team if he doesn’t make the First Team, and Beal is absolutely a worthy second guard. The forward spot is a little trickier, though I think Randle deserves this spot. A healthy James would’ve been a strong contender for a First Team spot, but since he played just 45 of 72 regular season games, it won’t surprise me if he ends up on the Third Team in the actual vote.
As for the center spot, it’ll be interesting to see how voters handle the NBA’s generous dual positional eligibility for Embiid and Jokic. If they both make the First Team (one as a center, one as a forward), Gobert has a clear path to a Second Team spot. If not, Gobert will be bumped to the Third Team.
On that note, before we move on to the Third Team polls, don’t forget that several players qualify at multiple positions on the NBA’s official ballot. We won’t share that full list of notable multi-position players again here, but you can check it out in our Second Team post.
Be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to select two players apiece in both the guard and forward polls. We’ll leave the polls open for a couple days before sharing and breaking down the results later this week.
Vote for your All-NBA Third Team below, then take to the comment section to explain your picks!
Guards
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Center
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How is the best player on the team with the NBA’s best record not All-NBA?
LeBron and Embiid both missed more games than Donovan Mitchell did.
This isn’t MVP. This is best overall players. Mitchell missed a good amount of time. Don’t understand the gripe.
Because Mitchell isn’t one of the 15 top players in the league this year?
He’s not? He missed game 1 against Memphis and they scored just 109 points, in games 2 and 3 the Jazz have averaged 131 points with him in the lineup. He missed fewer games than Embiid and LeBron, yet they are 1st and 2nd teamers and Mitchell isn’t even 3rd team?
Without him there’s no way Utah has the best record in the league.
No he’s not. It’s not a hard concept to grasp.
Also, Lebron shouldn’t be on the 2nd team and Embiid shouldn’t be on the 1st team.
The only real reason isn’t because he’s not one of the top 15 players.
But because there might be 6 other guards who belong there more.
That’s not a very difficult concept to grasp either. Give it a try.
None of the centers deserve an All-NBA spot. This is the issue with having both Embiid and Jokic on the first team. Bam, Davis, Green, etc. don’t deserve a spot over guards and forwards like CP3, Tatum, PG13, Booker, Mitchell, Leonard, etc.
Yea, opening this up with dual positions is incredibly stupid. It’s going to allow guys who don’t deserve it to make it, and guys that do, won’t.
If the NBA was going to be lax with the positions, they should’ve gone a little further and made Randle eligible at center — it makes more sense than listing Embiid or Jokic as a forward, and could’ve solved the Third Team center issue.
@Phillies That’s true but it’s also the same exact argument for changing it
What about the selections for the 2021 All NBA
LAST TEAM ??
ntilikina, oubre, kuzma, porzingas, heild, vucevic, bledsoe, e. payton, baynes, and markkanen.
Felicio knocked ur door..
Too many centers deserve to be in the All-NBA teams, I would put up to six if I went positionless…
Jokic, Embiid, Sabonis, KAT, Vucevic & Bam!
All of these 6 have been better than CP3, JT, PG13, D-Book, Mitchell & Kawhi if you ask me, right?
Not sure what your obsession with KAT is. He routinely misses a ton of games and plays for a horrible team. He’s nowhere close to all NBA.
It’s ridiculous to even consider him. And I get crap from so many posters here for saying that Mitchell deserves strong consideration, that’s a far more logical argument than anyone can make for KAT.
Just enjoy watching one of the top centers to play the game in the last 40 years, maybe you should too!
BTW he didn’t miss any game in his 4 first years in the league, so I would say he is a very durable player, but all is ’bout opinions, right?
He can score in any way, like no other center in the league, he is a great rebounder, passer, a good defender & one of the top shooters in the league… the guy just couldn’t be any better than he is!
The fact that he plays for a bad team has nothin’ to do with him, he plays hard, not on him the rest of the team sucks!
I will give you that this has been a down year for him, just around the top 10 in the league, the last 3/4 years he was a top 5 in the league, but again he has had to deal with a lot of personal issues… next year he is gonna ball out as usual!
Absolutely wrong for voting Bam and Clint Capela over Kat.
All 6 guards could easily be from the West, Beal’s the only one even close in the east.
Curry, Doncic, Dame, Mitchell, Chris Paul, and Booker all deserve to make a team.
My picks were pretty random. It’s impossible.