NBA All-Defensive Teams 2019-20 Announced

The NBA has made an official announcement of the All-Defensive 2019-20 season. With 195 total points, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Defensive Player of the Year got the highest votes. For the Milwaukee Bucks, this was the All-NBA First Team’s second consecutive appearance. Antetokounmpo got listed on 98 of 100 ballots from all the writers & broadcasters in the voting panel. While Giannis Antetokounmp is the star performer for the first team — Anthony Davis finished second. For Rudy Gobert, it is the fourth in a row All-Defensive First Team nod. Whereas for Marcus Smart, it is the second season to have been selected to the First Team.

The NBA All-Defensive Teams 2019-20.

The NBA has announced its All-Defensive selections 2019-20 season. From all the ten players who are going to be commemorated with honor — eight are still in Orlando, playoffs. Two of these ten players have already been eliminated in the first round itself.

Here is the list of players who have earned the spot:

First-Team:

Marcus Smart (Boston Celtics)

Rudy Gobert (Utah Jazz)

Anthony Davis (Los Angeles Lakers)

Ben Simmons (Philadelphia 76ers)

Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks)

Second-Team:

Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat)

Eric Bledsoe (Milwaukee Bucks)

Patrick Beverley (Los Angeles Clippers)

Brook Lopez (Milwaukee Bucks)

Kawhi Leonard (Los Angeles Clippers)

The Defensive Player of the Year: Antetokounmpo leads

The Defensive Player of the Year is Antetokounmpo. It would be the third All-Defense selection for the champion and the second time as a member of the first team. It is expected that he is going to be the fifth player to win the Defensive Player of the Year & MVP all in the same season after — Kevin Garnett, Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon & David Robinson. The runner-up Defensive Player of the Year, Davis — makes it for the fourth time.

In the NBA All-Defensive Teams 2019-20, the only first-time selection is Simmons. Others, including Gobert who is a two-time Defensive Player of the year & Smart, was chosen in the last season.

Kawhi Leonard is the two times Defensive Player of the Year winner. For Leonard, it is the sixth All-Defense selection that is the most in the group of all those who have been chosen this season. Those six selections have been split with three in one, group & three in the other. In the second team, Kawhi has joined Patrick Beverley, his Clippers teammate. Brook Lopez is going to be a first-time pick whereas, for Eric Bledsoe, it will be a second selection with the first being the last season.

About NBA All-Defensive Team 2019-20

The NBA All-Defensive Team honor began in 1968–69 NBA season. It is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) where the best defensive players of the season are honored. There are two all five-man lineups including — first and a second-team — which makes for a total of ten players. There is a special panel consisting of 123 broadcasters & writers who make the selection for the All-Defensive Team.

The writers & broadcasters were made to vote in the 2013–14 NBA season — before which it was the NBA head coaches who used to vote (they were restricted from voting to their teams). In the selection process, the first five players with the highest votes used to get into the first team & the next five in the second team. In case there was a tie at the fifth spot, the roaster got expanded. In any season a tie has occurred and the 2013 season is the most recent of all those seasons when the votes received by Joakim Noah & Tyson Chandler went into a tie. The record of 15 which is number selections to the All-Defensive Team is held by Tim Duncan.