The 2021/22 All-NBA teams have officially been announced by the NBA. For the fourth straight season, Bucks All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was unanimously selected to the All-NBA First Team by a voter panel of 100 media members. Antetokounmpo, 27, is making his sixth All-NBA team overall.
Antetokounmpo, reigning MVP Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, and Mavericks point guard Luka Doncic received the most votes. Suns All-Star shooting guard Devin Booker and Sixers All-Star center Joel Embiid rounded out the list of top five vote-getters. Because the All-NBA teams, unlike the All-Star squads, require just one center per team, Embiid was relegated to an All-NBA Second Team placing.
Below is a list of the three All-NBA teams. Vote tallies are listed in parentheses next to player names. Five points were awarded to players for a First Team Vote, three points netted for a Second Team vote, and one for a Third Team vote. Antetokounmpo earned a perfect 500 points.
All-NBA First Team
- Guard: Luka Doncic, Mavericks (476)
- Guard: Devin Booker, Suns (460)
- Forward: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bucks (500)
- Forward: Jayson Tatum, Celtics (390)
- Center: Nikola Jokic, Nuggets (476)
All-NBA Second Team
- Guard: Ja Morant, Grizzlies (301)
- Guard: Stephen Curry, Warriors (274)
- Forward: Kevin Durant, Nets (276)
- Forward: DeMar DeRozan, Bulls (184)
- Center: Joel Embiid, Sixers (414)
All-NBA Third Team
- Guard: Chris Paul, Suns (114)
- Guard: Trae Young, Hawks (110)
- Forward: LeBron James, Lakers (169)
- Forward: Pascal Siakam, Raptors (63)
- Center: Karl-Anthony Towns, Timberwolves (174)
Jazz center Rudy Gobert and shooting guard Donovan Mitchell, Heat center Bam Adebayo and small forward Jimmy Butler, Celtics swingman Jaylen Brown, Bucks guards Khris Middleton and Jrue Holiday, Grizzlies shooting guard Desmond Bane, Suns small forward Mikal Bridges, Spurs point guard Dejounte Murray, and Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet all received All-NBA votes. Surprisingly, Nets point guard Kyrie Irving, who played in just 29 games this season, also received a single vote.
As we previously outlined, the All-NBA selections come with significant financial ramifications. As a result of being named to All-NBA teams, Booker and Towns have become eligible for super-max extensions that would begin in 2024/25. If they’re signed this offseason, those deals would be for four years and would start at 35% of the ’24/25 cap. According to Bobby Marks of ESPN (via Twitter), they currently project to be worth $211MM apiece.
Young’s five-year contract extension, which was signed last August and will go into effect in 2022/23, will now be worth 30% of next season’s cap instead of 25% by virtue of his All-NBA selection. Based on a projected $122MM cap, that means it’ll be worth about $212MM instead of $177MM.
Jokic had already met the super-max requirements prior to this announcement, since he won last year’s MVP award — he’s eligible to sign a five-year, super-max extension this offseason and has said he plans to do so. Doncic, who signed a maximum-salary contract extension last summer, also previously met the super-max criteria by earning All-NBA nods in 2020 and 2021.
Notable players who are not eligible this offseason for super-max deals include Morant and Bulls shooting guard Zach LaVine. As Marks tweets, Morant needs to make the All-NBA team again in 2023 to qualify for a starting salary worth 30% of the cap (instead of 25%) on his next deal.
LaVine, a free agent this offseason, would have been eligible to earn up to 35% of next season’s cap from the Bulls if he had made an All-NBA team, but will instead be able to earn no more than 30% of the ’22/23 cap on his next contract.
With their inclusions, Morant, Booker, and Young are making their All-NBA team debuts. Meanwhile, on the other side of the NBA aging curve, two 37-year-old veterans further cemented their Hall of Fame credentials during the 2021/22 season. James made his 18th All-NBA team, while Paul was named to his 11th All-NBA team.
Complete joke tbh. Joker, Embiid, Freak, DeMar and Ja should be 1st team.
Yea pretty trash
I don’t see the jokes or honesty, just plausible lists that vary.
Morant was not that efficient, and had a negative on-off. Gave us highlights but did not beat Curry.
Naahhh, they got the backcourt right.
Im bulls fan, and i know ddr played great this season.but for me,jimmy buttler better than him.ddr isnt team’s player.hog the ball just like zach,harden,wesbrook,played no defense,but he made very effecient shots. Thats made him had very good stat,but for me two way player like buttler is better. Ddr dont deserve for 1st team. If we Swap him with buttler, bulls would have better record. Hate garpax when they trade away buttler for dunn,mark,and zach
Sucks for Lavine. No potential supermax contract anymore.
Good votes and correct players getting recognized, tho how booker is 1 team ahead of morant is baffling
No Paul no Booker. Ja 1st, Paul 2nd, Booker 3rd.
How is it baffling that the guy who finished 4th in MVP balloting and played on the team with the best record made 1st team over Morant?
Because he proves over and over what he isn’t – elite. Hence, baffling.
Why isn’t Booker “elite”? Is it because he’s the best player on a team that went to the finals last season and they went to the semis this year. He made it just as far as Morant.
“Surprisingly, Nets point guard Kyrie Irving, who played in just 29 games this season, also received a single vote.”
Tell us you’re anti-vax without telling us you’re anti-vax.
Otherwise, looks pretty good. Surprised LaVine didn’t get any votes, though.
No Paul no Booker. Ja 1st, Paul 2nd, Booker 3rd.
Supermax losers made their teams capspace winners!— and vice versa.
Bulls made out, if they planned to maxx Lavine. But Derozan placed higher.
If the Wolves had $40m for a new POBO, then they have money for Towns.
Clown show
It’d be interesting to see a matchup between the first team and the second…
Have a fourth team, then 4th+1st vs 2nd+3rd. It would sell. Players are watching the playoffs on tv, thinking I could have done that.
With the exception of maybe Butler over Siakim I don’t have a problem with any of those that made the teams they did because of the way the balloting is set up. It’s just makes no sense to me how you can have 5 PGs and only one shooting guard but you limited to 3 total Centers.
It should be just the top 5 guys that got the most votes in the 1st team, 6-10 2nd team and 11-15 3rd team. Traditional positions are obsolete. For example Jimmy Butler is listed as a 6’7″ 230 pound SF and Luka Doncic is listed as a 6’7″ 230 pound PG. Yet their roles on their respective teams are pretty much the same.
1/ Murray, Luka, Giannis, Sabonis & Jokic
2/ Young, Harden, DeRozan, JT & Embiid
3/ Curry, D-Book, Miles Bridges, Siakam & KAT
I have taken on account the games missed which is why guys like LBJ, KD, Ja & AD are left out.
Disregarding games played it would have been…
1/ Murray, Luka, LBJ, Giannis & Jokic
2/ Ja, Harden, KD, Sabonis & Embiid
3/ Young, Curry, JT, AD & KAT
Harden and Sabonis, laughable
Harden so far up lol …
Butler over CP3!
Replace Morant and Durant on 2nd team with CP3 and Butler, and the first two teams would be about right. Morant is a highlight film, but not impactful enough in the W/L column (which is all that should matter). Durant is a top 5 player, but didn’t play enough on a .500 team to be more than third team.