Monday brings with it two crucial second round Game 4s—with games between Miami and Chicago as well as Oklahoma City and Memphis—and the NBA announcing the All-Defensive Team.
The NBA All-Defensive First Team has six players instead of the customary 5 due to a tie amongst voting NBA head coaches between Joakim Noah and Tyson Chandler, both of whom tallied 24 total points.
The results have cause a lot of questions to surface regarding the voting process.
One of the most apparent questions being asked involves Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol, who joined teammates Tony Allen and Mike Conley among the league’s top defenders. The question, however, is how is it possible that the 2013 Defensive Player of the Year not only found himself on the Second Team, but that he only garnered 12 points from First and Second Team votes.
Also controversial is the thought that Gasol, who received 12 points from five first-place votes and two second-place votes, managed to make the Second Team over Milwaukee Bucks center Larry Sanders, who garnered 16 total points.
Sanders would have finished ahead of Gasol, but he was listed out of position. Voters had to choose him as a power forward.
Here is a sampling of some of the media response to the voting: