- NBA All-Defensive Team
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National Basketball Association awards and honors Championship • O'Brien Trophy • Brown Trophy (defunct) Individual awards • All-Star Game MVP • Most Improved Player • Bill Russell Finals MVP • Most Valuable Player • Coach of the Year • Rookie of the Year • Defensive Player of the Year • Sixth Man of the Year • Executive of the Year • Sportsmanship Award • J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award Honors • All-NBA Team • All-Defensive Team • All-Rookie Team The NBA All-Defensive Team is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) honor given since the 1968–69 NBA season to the best defensive players during the regular season. Voting is conducted by the NBA head coaches; the coaches are not allowed to vote for players on their own team.[1][2] The All-Defensive Team is generally composed of two five-man lineups, a first and a second team, comprising a total of 10 roster spots. The players each receive two points for each first team vote and one point for each second team vote. The top five players with the highest point total make the first team, with the next five making the second team. In the case of a tie at the fifth position of either team, the roster is expanded. If the first team consists of six players due to a tie, the second team will still consist of five players with the potential for more expansion in the event of additional ties. Ties have occurred several times, most recently in 2006 when Kobe Bryant and Jason Kidd tied in votes received. No respect is given to positions. For example, the second team had three forwards, one center, and one guard in 2006.[1]
Tim Duncan holds the record for the most total selections with 13 and was selected successively since his rookie year in 1998.[3] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant follow with eleven total honors each. Michael Jordan, Gary Payton, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant share the record for most NBA All-Defensive first team selections with nine. Pippen, Bobby Jones, and Duncan made the first team eight times each. Walt Frazier and Dennis Rodman made the All-Defensive first team seven times.[3]
Hakeem Olajuwon of Nigeria, Patrick Ewing of Jamaica, Dikembe Mutombo of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Andrei Kirilenko of Russia, Anderson Varejão of Brazil, Thabo Sefolosha of Switzerland, and Tim Duncan and Raja Bell of the U.S. Virgin Islands are members of the NBA All-Defensive Team not born in the United States. Duncan and Bell are American citizens, but are still considered international players by the NBA because they were not born in one of the fifty states or Washington, D.C.[4]
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly known as Lew Alcindor, has been on a 11 All-Defensive teams.
Walt Frazier is the only player to have been on all of the first seven All-Defensive first teams.
Michael Jordan, Gary Payton, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett share the record for most NBA All-Defensive first team selections with nine.
Patrick Ewing is the only Jamaican-born player to have been on a All-Defensive team.
Dennis Rodman has been on the All-Defensive first team seven times.
Scottie Pippen has made the All-Defensive first team eight consecutive times, from 1991–92 to 1998–99.
Dikembe Mutombo, who has won four NBA Defensive Player of the Year Awards, has been selected into the All-Defensive first and second team three times each.
Tim Duncan is the only person with thirteen selections, and was selected successively since his rookie year.
Kobe Bryant is the only person to have made the six most recent All-Defensive first team.
Ben Wallace, who has won four NBA Defensive Player of the Year Awards in five years, has been selected into the All-Defensive first team five times in six selections.^ Denotes players who are still active in the NBA * Denotes players inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been selected Player
(in bold text)Indicates the player who won the Defensive Player of the Year award in the same year[a] Most selections
The following table only lists players with at least four First Team selections.
* Denotes players inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ^ Denotes players who are still active # Player First Team Second Team Total Defensive Player of the Year 1 Kevin Garnett^ 9 2 11 1 2 Kobe Bryant^ 9 2 11 0 3 Michael Jordan* 9 0 9 1 4 Gary Payton 9 0 9 1 5 Tim Duncan^ 8 5 13 0 6 Scottie Pippen* 8 2 10 0 7 Bobby Jones 8 1 9 0 8 Dennis Rodman* 7 1 8 2 9 Walt Frazier* 7 0 7 0 10 Dennis Johnson* 6 3 9 0 11 Dave DeBusschere* 6 0 6 0 12 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 5 6 11 0 13 Hakeem Olajuwon* 5 4 9 2 14 Michael Cooper 5 3 8 1 15 Bruce Bowen 5 3 8 0 15 John Havlicek* 5 3 8 0 17 Ben Wallace^ 5 1 6 4 18 Jason Kidd^ 4 5 9 0 19 David Robinson* 4 4 8 1 20 Jerry Sloan* 4 2 6 0 21 Sidney Moncrief 4 1 5 2 22 Maurice Cheeks 4 1 5 0 22 Joe Dumars* 4 1 5 0 22 Jerry West* 4 1 5 0 25 Don Buse 4 0 4 0 Notes
- a The Defensive Player of the Year award was first established in 1983.
- b Before the 1971–72 season, Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.[5]
- c When Olajuwon arrived in the United States, the University of Houston incorrectly spelled his first name "Akeem". He used that spelling until March 9, 1991, when he announced that he would add an H.[6][7][8]
- d Ron Artest changed his name into Metta World Peace on September 16, 2011.[9]
References
- General
- "All-Defensive Teams". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/awards_defensiveteams.html. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
- "All-Defensive Teams". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/all_defense.html. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
- Specific
- ^ a b "Ben Wallace Tops 2005-06 NBA All-Defensive Team Selections". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. May 11, 2006. http://www.nba.com/news/alldefensive_060511.html. Retrieved January 17, 2007.
- ^ "Camby, Bryant, Bell round out All-Defensive team". ESPN.com. April 30, 2007. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2854317. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
- ^ a b "All-Defensive Selections by Player". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. http://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/all_defense_by_player.html. Retrieved July 18, 2008.
- ^ "Bargnani becomes first European top NBA draft pick". People's Daily Online. June 29, 2006. http://english.people.com.cn/200606/29/eng20060629_278441.html. Retrieved June 16, 2008.
- ^ "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Bio". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/history/players/abduljabbar_bio.html. Retrieved August 4, 2008.
- ^ "Hakeem Olajuwon Bio: 1992-93". NBA.com. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. http://www.nba.com/playerfile/hakeem_olajuwon/bio.html. Retrieved June 15, 2008.
- ^ Dufresne, Chris (March 11, 1991). "Hakeem Still Can Be Called 'the Dream'". Los Angeles Times: p. 2.
- ^ Olajuwon and Knobler. pg. 207
- ^ "Artest's Name Change to Metta World Peace Approved". The New York Times. September 16, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/09/16/sports/basketball/AP-BKN-Artest-Name-Change.html. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
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