Marcus Smart, Rudy Gobert, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Mikal Bridges and Jaren Jackson Jr. earned All-Defensive first-team honors.
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Marcus Smart, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Rudy Gobert headline NBA's All-Defensive teams
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Boston Celtics guard
Marcus Smart,
Utah Jazz center
Rudy Gobert and
Milwaukee Bucks forward
Giannis Antetokounmpo highlighted the 2021-22 NBA All-Defensive teams, which were announced on Friday night.
Smart, the league's 2021-22 Defensive Player of the Year, earned his third first-team nod. He was joined at the guard spot by
Mikal Bridges of the
Phoenix Suns, who earned his first career All-Defensive team nod. Smart and Bridges were the top two vote-getters.
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Antetokounmpo picked up his fifth All-Defensive team award and his fourth first-team selection. Since All-Defensive Teams were first announced in 1968-69, the only other players with four first-team selections and multiple MVPs are
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan,
LeBron James and Tim Duncan.
Antetokounmpo was joined at the forward spot by Memphis'
Jaren Jackson Jr. who, like Bridges, earned his first selection.
Gobert, who had won three of the last four Defensive Player of the Year awards, earned his sixth consecutive selection. That breaks a tie with
Hakeem Olajuwon and Abdul-Jabbar for the most consecutive first-team honors for a center.
Voting For All-Defensive Teams
| 1ST TEAM | 2ND TEAM | TOTAL POINTS |
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Marcus Smart | 99 | 0 | 198 |
Mikal Bridges | 95 | 3 | 193 |
Rudy Gobert | 76 | 19 | 171 |
Giannis Antetokounmpo | 63 | 30 | 156 |
Jaren Jackson Jr. | 55 | 43 | 153 |
Bam Adebayo | 57 | 38 | 152 |
Jrue Holiday | 24 | 41 | 89 |
Matisse Thybulle | 8 | 71 | 87 |
Robert Williams III | 3 | 64 | 70 |
Draymond Green | 5 | 24 | 34 |
The second team was Milwaukee's
Jrue Holiday, Philadelphia's
Matisse Thybulle, Miami's
Bam Adebayo, Golden State's
Draymond Green and Boston's
Robert Williams III.
With Smart and Williams making the team, it's the first time Boston has had multiple players on the All-Defensive Team since
Rajon Rondo and Kevin Garnett made the squad in 2011-12.
The Celtics had six players end up with a vote as
Jaylen Brown,
Jayson Tatum and
Al Horford all picked up a first-team vote. Celtics reserve guard
Derrick White, acquired at the trade deadline from the
San Antonio Spurs, received three second-team votes.
Holiday's selection, his fourth overall, earned him a $120,000 bonus.
It was Green's seventh selection to the team, and he did so playing in just 46 games. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, only Andrei Kirilenko (41 in 2004-05) and
Scottie Pippen (44 in 1997-98) made the All-Defensive team playing in fewer games.
Adebayo made his third career All-Defensive team (all second teams) while it was Thybulle's second and Williams' first.
Rookies
Evan Mobley of Cleveland and Herb Jones of New Orleans were the fifth and sixth-place vote-getters for forwards. They missed out on becoming the first rookies to make the All-Defensive team since Tim Duncan did so in 1997-98.