Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic,
Antetokounmpo, Tatum, Mitchell All-NBA 1st team. LeBron, 40, is 2nd team
[May 24, 2025]
By TIM REYNOLDS
Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokic and
Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo were the only players to appear on
every MVP ballot this season.
It only made sense that they would be unanimous All-NBA picks as
well.
Gilgeous-Alexander — the league’s MVP — along with Jokic and
Antetokounmpo were unveiled Friday night as first-team All-NBA
players, along with Boston’s Jayson Tatum and Cleveland’s Donovan
Mitchell.
Tatum was another unanimous first-team pick. Mitchell made the first
team for the first time.
Antetokounmpo has seven first-team selections and nine appearances
on the All-NBA team overall. Jokic is a five-time first-teamer and
seven-time All-NBA pick, Tatum is first-team for the fourth time
(fifth overall), Gilgeous-Alexander has been first-team in all three
of his All-NBA appearances, and Mitchell is All-NBA for the second
time in his career.
Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic, Antetokounmpo and Tatum were all
first-teamers last season as well.
Second team
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers is an All-NBA player for the
21st time in 22 seasons. He made the second team.
Also on the second team: Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards, Cleveland's
Evan Mobley, Golden State’s Stephen Curry and New York's Jalen
Brunson.
Curry made All-NBA for the 11th time, something only 21 players in
NBA history have done. Edwards and Brunson are two-time All-NBA
players, and Mobley made a team for the first time.
Third team
Detroit's Cade Cunningham, Indiana's Tyrese Haliburton, the Los
Angeles Clippers' James Harden, New York's Karl-Anthony Towns and
Oklahoma City's Jalen Williams were named to the third team.
Harden is an eight-time selection, Towns is a three-time pick,
Haliburton made a team for the second time and Cunningham and
Williams both are All-NBA for the first time.
All 100 ballots
Eight players appeared on every ballot. Antetokounmpo, Gilgeous-Alexander,
Jokic and Tatum all got 100 first-team votes.
Mitchell got 61 first-team votes, 35 second-team and four
third-team. Edwards got 11 first-team, 87 second-team and two
third-team. Curry got two first-team, 68 second-team and 30
third-team. And Brunson got two first-team, 62 second-team and 36
third-team.
James and Cunningham were on 99 of 100 ballots.
Giannis: The people’s choice, again
For the eighth consecutive year, Antetokounmpo was listed on every
All-NBA ballot. That's the longest active run in the NBA.
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Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander reacts during
the second half of Game 2 of an NBA basketball Western Conference
Finals playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday,
May 22, 2025, in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)
The last time an All-NBA ballot was sent to the
league without Antetokounmpo’s name listed was 2017, when four of
the 100 voters didn’t rank him among the league’s top players.
Since then: 799 ballots cast, 799 listing Antetokounmpo.
Jokic appeared on every All-NBA ballot for the fifth consecutive
year; it would be six in a row if he hadn’t fallen one vote short of
unanimous status in 2020. Jayson Tatum was on every All-NBA ballot
for the fourth consecutive season.
LeBron: The first at 40
James is the first 40-year-old to make an All-NBA team — he turned
40 in December.
James has 13 first-team appearances, four second-team selections and
four third-team nods.
No other player has more than 15 All-NBA selections. Kobe Bryant (11
first-team picks), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (10 first-team picks) and Tim
Duncan (10 first-team picks) are the other members of the 15-time
club.
Awards season
The release of the All-NBA teams wrapped up awards season in the
league. A global panel of 100 writers and broadcasters sent their
votes to the NBA before the playoffs started.
Those awards voted on by the panel included Gilgeous-Alexander
winning MVP, Cleveland's Kenny Atkinson winning coach of the year,
Atlanta's Dyson Daniels winning most improved player, San Antonio's
Stephon Castle winning rookie of the year, Mobley winning defensive
player of the year, Brunson winning clutch player of the year, and
Boston's Payton Pritchard winning sixth man of the year.
Also chosen by that panel: the All-NBA team, along with the
All-Defensive team and All-Rookie team.
There were other awards chosen through various other voting
processes, including Oklahoma City’s Sam Presti winning executive of
the year, Boston’s Jrue Holiday winning the social justice award and
the sportsmanship award, Curry winning the Twyman-Stokes teammate of
the year award, and Golden State's Draymond Green winning the hustle
award.
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