On Friday night, the NBA announced this year’s All-Defense team.
An annual exercise to reward the 10 best defenders in the league every year, the two All-Defense teams for this season are littered with recognizable names. Unanimous Defensive Player of the Year Victor Wembanyama, of course, earned a spot on the first team of this year’s All-Defense honors—the second of his young career after he became the first rookie in NBA history to take one of the five coveted first-team spots in 2023–24. The two runner-ups to the DPOY award, Ausar Thompson and Chet Holmgren, had tremendous seasons on that end of the ball in their own rights and were rewarded accordingly with first-team slots.
