The NBA has officially announced its All-NBA teams for the 2022/23 season.
A total of 100 media members vote on the All-NBA awards. Players received five points for a First Team vote, three points for Second Team, and one point for Third Team, for a maximum total of 500 points. This year’s three All-NBA teams are as follows:
First Team
- Forward: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bucks (500 total points)
- Forward: Jayson Tatum, Celtics (484)
- Center: Joel Embiid, Sixers (474)
- Guard: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Thunder (407)
- Guard: Luka Doncic, Mavericks (403)
Second Team
- Center: Nikola Jokic, Nuggets (364)
- Guard: Donovan Mitchell, Cavaliers (349)
- Guard: Stephen Curry, Warriors (188)
- Forward: Jimmy Butler, Heat (182)
- Forward: Jaylen Brown, Celtics (169)
Third Team
- Center: Domantas Sabonis, Kings (147)
- Guard: De’Aaron Fox, Kings (144)
- Guard: Damian Lillard, Trail Blazers (137)
- Forward: Julius Randle, Knicks (125)
- Forward: LeBron James, Lakers (81)
A total of 37 players received at least one vote, per the NBA. The top vote-getters who wound up missing out on All-NBA spots were Lakers center Anthony Davis (65), Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen (49) and Grizzlies guard Ja Morant (44).
Morant had Rose Rule language in his rookie scale extension, meaning his five-year deal would have started at 30% of next season’s cap had he been voted in; instead, he’ll receive 25% of the cap, which is projected to be a difference of about $39MM across five seasons.
Other players receiving 20-plus points include Bucks guard Jrue Holiday (39), Suns forward Kevin Durant (35) and Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (23). The next three highest were Raptors forward Pascal Siakam (15), Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard (15) and Anthony Edwards of the Timberwolves (14), who is listed under forward but spent most of the season at shooting guard.
As we noted earlier today, both of the Celtics’ top two players will now be eligible for Designated Veteran Extensions, also known as the super-max: Brown will be eligible to sign a five-year extension this offseason that starts at up to 35% of the 2024/25 salary cap, while Tatum will be eligible to sign a super-max extension in 2024 after earning All-NBA nods each of the past two seasons.
Like Brown, Siakam would have been eligible for a super-max extension this summer had he made an All-NBA team. He finished a distant ninth, so his maximum extension will now be worth a projected $192.2MM over four years, tweets Eric Koreen of The Athletic. As Josh Lewenberg of TSN.ca observes (via Twitter), Siakam could still qualify for a super-max deal if he makes an All-NBA spot next season as an impending free agent.
This will be the last season under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement. In the new CBA, All-NBA voting will be positionless and players will be required to play a minimum of 65 games to earn major regular season awards. Five of the players honored today — Antetokounmpo, Curry, Butler, Lillard and James — played fewer than 65 this season and would have been ineligible if the new requirements had been in effect, according to ESPN’s Bobby Marks (Twitter link).
LeBron extended his own NBA record with his selection, earning a spot on an All-NBA team for the 19th straight season, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin (Twitter link). No other player has more than 15 total All-NBA awards (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan are tied for second at 15 apiece).
Giannis was a unanimous First Team selection for the fifth straight season, per Eric Nehm of The Athletic (Twitter link), and the only unanimous choice in 2022/23. Antetokounmpo now has more First Team berths than any European-born player, tweets HoopsHype, and only trails Hakeem Olajuwon among international players (six). The Bucks superstar finished third in MVP voting behind Embiid and Jokic, but Jokic received some First Team votes over the Sixers’ MVP winner, which is why Embiid wasn’t a unanimous pick.
According to HoopsHype (Twitter link), this is the first season in league history that only one American player (Tatum) was voted to the First Team. Doncic (Slovenia) and Antetokounmpo (Greece) are European, Embiid was born in Cameroon, and Gilgeous-Alexander is Canadian.
Despite earning an All-NBA nod for the first time, Mitchell wasn’t happy that he didn’t make the First Team, sending out a tweet on the matter.
Didn’t Lillard quit half way through the season?
3/4 through.
And still played more games than Curry, and put up better averages than Mitchell. I think the All-NBA teams look about right, but Lillard played like a beast – for a very lousy team.
He did play well. I’m just not a fan of rewarding players that missed a significant amount of time.
Curry played less games but you’re not complaining about that
Cause he got hurt. He didn’t just quit playing like lillard
Portland shut him down
Shai G-A couldn’t carry Curry’s jockstrap
Curry shouldn’t have even made the list. Barely played half the season. Least SGA put his jock strap on. Curry spent almost as much time in street clothes as he did in his uniform.
Lol Curry “barely played half the season”? He was injured and he played 56 games.
I would hardly call 56 games as “barely”.
Only real snubs here are Siakim and Brunson, but I don’t see anyone I’d take out to make room for them.
How on earth Jokic wasn’t in the first team… I will never understand!!!
Are you going to make the MVP 2nd team?
Happened 3x before. Cowens in 71-72. Russell in 60-61 and 61-62.
I understand the CBA called for the new system to start next year, and given contractural ramifications it makes some sense to wait to make the positionless change, but overall I still feel they should have just started with it this season.
LeBron James played 55 games this season, while he was mostly phenomenal in the time played, I can’t help but feel no other player gets in with 55 games. AD was arguably better this season and played 56 games.
giannis was the only unanimous vote and he finished 3rd in mvp.
This is just because voters could select only one center. And even with this constraint, Embiid received 87 first-team votes and Jokic 32, which means that 19 voters listed one of them as a forward just to have both on the first team.
Good for Sabonis he gets 3rd team and a stop on the chest from the dirtiest player in the game (sorry 1 of) just for leaving the pacers next year 2nd round
And we all the C’s are shipping bricks because now they have 2 super max players coming up they need to make the tough call keep both or trade one
If it’s me truthfully I’d trade Tatum he maybe be the “better” player but listing and watching him this is see a lot of me goals not team goals and Brown seems to get better every year and seems like a team guy idk
Giannis was unanimous b/c there’s 2 forward slots. No one is not putting Giannis as the first 1st team forward. Joel would be unanimous too if Jokic was a Forward or Guard – some put Jokic 1st and Joel 2nd. If Giannis was listed as a Center he’d be 3rd team… which is even more of an argument for positionless.
Orrrrr its because Gino was and deserved MVP and Embiid only got it because of his crying campaign *shrugs*
get new material
Who does Mitchell think he’s better than on the first team? Like if you ask me he’s really not even close to any of the 5 even if you ignored position.
How many would the 65 game minimum affected ?
“Five of the players honored today — Antetokounmpo, Curry, Butler, Lillard and James — played fewer than 65 this season and would have been ineligible if the new requirements had been in effect”
Celtics are gonna be built around Tatum/Brown for a long time.
SGA ahead of Donovan????? I don’t think so
congrats Julius !!!!!
link to nypost.com
Knucklehead ……. grow up.