Draymond Green earns NBA All-Defensive 1st Team honors
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With over 5,000 players in NBA history, at least one player was born on every day of the calendar year – including three leap day ballers. Our day-by-day breakdown of the players born on each day of the year continues. Below are the most notable NBA players born on May 19.
"That's the dynamic I saw with (Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan) when I played for four seasons with the Spurs. It was very similar. It was collaborative, it was authentic, genuine love and friendship. A lot of humor, a lot of joy," Steve shared.
Former Memphis Grizzlies guard Gilbert Arenas makes brutally honest statement before Minnesota Timberwolves-Oklahoma City Thunder Game 2
A three-time All-Star, Beal signed a massive five-year, $251 million contract with the Wizards in 2022. The shooting guard will make $53.7 million next season. Beal turns 32 in June. He has career averages of 21.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 801 games with the Wizards and Suns.
Shooting guard Jaden Ivey, who missed the second half of the season and the entirety playoffs with a fractured fibula in his left, should return healthy at some point early in the year. Cunningham, Duren and rookie Ron Holland should all continue to develop.
Sure, the Mavericks hold the draft’s top pick. But, like ex-NBA guard Lou Williams argued, after trading all-world Luka Doncic to the Lakers for Anthony Davis in February, the choice might not be Harrison‘s to make. “You’re in Texas,” blurted co-panelist Chandler Parsons. “You already got rid of one great white hope, you can’t get rid of the next.”
San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle, the 2024-25 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year, has been unanimously selected to the 2024-25 Kia NBA All-Rookie First Team. He received First Team votes on all 100 ballots from a global media panel.
For the first time this decade, Adebayo missed out on making either of the All-NBA Defensive teams. The star big man is one of the better defenders in the NBA, but this is a significant miss for him. For first time this decade, Bam Adebayo was bypassed for All NBA defensive honors.