{The Official 2021-22 NBA Thread} - Finals: Warriors vs Celtics…{4-2 advantage warriors } Dubs NBA champs, Curry MVP

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I don’t see what people see in Chet. He wasn’t even the best player on his team. They hype around him is unreal.

If we’re being honest, all them niggas suck! :lol:

But Chet’s a 7 footer, can shoot, handle the ball and block shots\be a defensive factor in the middle.

With the NBA they draft off potential and his size and skill is what they’re looking a.
 

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Hard to tell who's flopping and else who's not these days, look like Damien Lee and Brunson flopped to me
 

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Soooo we're just gonna watch blow out after blow out huh?...honestly how often have we seen a real nailbiter in the last few series?? they seem to just switch blow outs every other game.... wonder how this affects vegas???
 

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Marcus Smart, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Rudy Gobert headline NBA's All-Defensive teams
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  • Andrew LopezESPN
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 TEAM2ND TEAMTOTAL POINTS
Marcus Smart990198
Mikal Bridges953193
Rudy Gobert7619171
Giannis Antetokounmpo6330156
Jaren Jackson Jr.5543153
Bam Adebayo5738152
Jrue Holiday244189
Matisse Thybulle87187
Robert Williams III36470
Draymond Green52434
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.
 
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