When the NBA Finals tip off Thursday night, each team will have one member of the All-NBA Teams announced Wednesday.
The Miami Heat will have forward LeBron James, who was joined on the All-NBA First Team by forward Kevin Durant of Oklahoma City, center Joakim Noah and guards James Harden of Houston and Chris Paul of the LA Clippers. Durant, the NBA MVP, was the lone unanimous choice with 125 votes. James came up one vote shy.
The San Antonio Spurs will have guard Tony Parker, who was joined on the All-NBA second Team by guard Stephen Curry of Golden State, center Dwight Howard of Houston and forwards Kevin Love of Minnesota and Blake Griffin of the LA Clippers.
What about Miami’s Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh, you say? Wade, who missed 28 games, was a distant 29th overall with just six points. Bosh was 37th among 40 players receiving votes with one point.
Other Spurs receiving votes were Tim Duncan, who was 18th overall with one First Team vote and 63 points, and Kawhi Leonard, who also had one point.
The All-NBA Third Team was forwards LaMarcus Aldridge of Portland and Paul George of Indiana, center Al Jefferson of Charlotte and guards Goran Dragic of Phoenix and Damian Lillard of Portland. George made a nice chunk of extra change for his selection.
In our season-ending awards column, we offered our choices for each of the three All-NBA Teams and would like to point out that we went a mere 15-of-15 on player selections and got the First Team entirely correct.
We had George ahead of Love on the Second Team, based each of their team’s respective finishes in the standings; Jefferson ahead of Howard on the Second Team, based on better offensive numbers with less help; and Lillard over Parker on the Second Team, based on carrying a heavier load throughout the season.
The Rockets, Clippers and Blazers were the only teams with two players among the top 15.
Six teams had no players receiving a single vote, and every one of them is in the top half of the draft lottery – Boston, the LA Lakers, Milwaukee, Orlando, Philadelphia and Utah.
I would have said Sheridan was more sloshed than Bernie Kosar when he left James off the first-team, but then I realized he just wavers between trolling and kissing ass. The 2014 All-NBA Team being evidence of the former, the final David Stern press conference being evidence of the latter.
So you predict 15 of 15 correctly, all the while voting against your own predictions.
This seems to be entirely an attention grab Mr Sheridan. And attention is the one thing I can stop giving you as of now.
even lebron haters have to be incredibly stubborn to not admit he’s the best player in the game right now. but an experienced sportswriter? seems like mr. sheridan is using his voting privilege to create some buzz for himself with a little controversy.
Not voting for LeBron for MVP can be understandable, but leaving him off a first team All-NBA ballot Just makes him lose credibility.
So you could not admit it was your boss Sheridan who dissed Lebron?