After successful his third Most Useful Participant award in 4 years earlier this month, Denver Nuggets heart Nikola Jokic headlined this 12 months’s All-NBA groups by incomes his sixth choice in a row and fourth total on Wednesday.
Jokic, who was supplanted on the primary workforce final season by 2022-23 MVP Joel Embiid of Philadelphia, led the balloting, the primary 12 months of the award being positionless — partially due to the annual slugfest between the 2 for the one first-team All-NBA heart spot.
The irony is that Embiid is considered one of a number of gamers this season — together with Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell, New York Knicks ahead Julius Randle and Miami Warmth ahead Jimmy Butler — who made All-NBA final season however wasn’t eligible this 12 months as a result of newly created 65-game rule for high awards.
Regardless of the rule change, becoming a member of Jokic on the first-team are 4 gamers apart from Embiid who have been named first-team All-NBA final 12 months: Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Milwaukee Bucks ahead Giannis Antetokounmpo and Boston Celtics ahead Jayson Tatum.
It was the sixth straight first-team choice for Antetokounmpo; fifth consecutive choice for Doncic; the third straight for Tatum; and the second in a row for Gilgeous-Alexander. Jokic and Gilgeous-Alexander are the one unanimous first-team picks.
Doncic turns into the third participant with 5 first-team All-NBA choices earlier than turning 26, becoming a member of Tim Duncan and Kevin Durant.
For Doncic and Gilgeous-Alexander, the All-NBA nods imply they’re poised for supermax extensions that may be signed in 2025, each of which might set data.
Doncic can signal a five-year deal value about $346 million, beginning at almost $60 million in 2026-27 and ending at about $79 million in 2030-31. Gilgeous-Alexander will probably be eligible to signal a four-year extension value about $294 million. His would begin in 2027-28 at round $65 million — and the ultimate 12 months, 2030-31, would see him incomes simply over $81 million, or almost $1 million per recreation. It could be the primary time an NBA participant’s annual wage has topped $80 million.
Additionally seeing main monetary boosts from their choices are Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards (second workforce) and Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton (third workforce), each of whom agreed to extensions final summer time which can be value about $205 million however now will probably be valued at about $245 million over the subsequent 5 seasons.
Haliburton is the primary Pacers participant to make an All-NBA workforce since Victor Oladipo after the 2017-18 season.
Knicks guard Jalen Brunson, in the meantime, is one other first-time decide, making the second workforce after main New York into the second spherical of the playoffs. He’s the primary Knicks guard to earn an All-NBA choice since Walt “Clyde” Fraizer after the 1974-75 season.
Together with Brunson and Edwards on the second workforce are Phoenix’s Durant, who earned his eleventh choice, tying for the twelfth most in NBA historical past; LA Clippers ahead Kawhi Leonard, who was tabbed for the sixth time and first since 2021; and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis, who picked up his fifth choice and first since 2020.
Past Haliburton on the third workforce are Sacramento Kings heart Domantas Sabonis, who made his second straight third workforce; Suns guard Devin Booker, who made it for a second time after touchdown a first-team choice in 2022; and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, who earned a spot for the tenth time in his profession.
LeBron James, 39, was additionally chosen to the third workforce, making him the oldest participant to make an All-NBA workforce. He was already the youngest participant to make All-NBA when he was voted onto the workforce for the 2004-05 season.
James has been picked in 20 of his 21 seasons, probably the most all time; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant and Duncan are subsequent with 15 choices every.
James obtained one first-team vote, that means he has obtained one in 19 of his 21 seasons (exceptions have been 2019 and 2023).
ESPN Stats & Data and The Related Press contributed to this report.
