Some years, it’s a struggle for voters to find 10 players deserving of making the All-Rookie Teams. Not this year. In fact, it was the opposite problem.
Three players were unanimously chosen to make First Team All-Rookie — Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg, as well as Kon Knueppel and VJ Edgecombe — in what was one of the deepest rookie classes in recent memory. Because of that, some quality players who played key minutes for playoff teams, didn’t even make the second team.
The All-Rookie Teams shook out like this.
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NBA All-Rookie Teams
First Team
Cooper Flagg (Dallas)
Kon Knueppel (Charlotte)
VJ Edgecombe (Philadephia)
Dylan Harper (San Antonio)
Cedric Coward (Memphis)
Second Team
Derik Queen (New Orleans)
Maxime Raynaud (Sacramento)
Jeremiah Fears (New Orleans)
Ace Bailey (Utah)
Collin Murray-Boyles (Toronto)
The biggest snub was Hornets’ center Ryan Kalkbrenner, but he finished 15 votes (and eight first-team votes) behind Murray-Boyles. Washington’s Tre Johnson and Boston‘s Hugo Gonzalez were the next two vote getters. This is a case where a lot of years any of them would made the second team, but this is a ridiculously deep class.
