All NBA Teams 2009 Announced
After having so many awards and accomplishments this year, Lebron James deservingly gets another award or should I say another sweep. This time he has been voted by all the 122 sportswriters and broadcasters around the league to be in the first team All NBA.
It’s just fitting as he is the NBA’s best player right now, he is the MVP. He led the Cleveland Cavaliers to the best record in the NBA and has been sweeping teams left and right. He also was second in the league in scoring with 28.4 while also ranking top 10 in both assists and steals.
He is joined by Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant who finished second in voting and got 119 votes for the first team. Rounding out the first team are Miami Heat’s Dwayne Wade, Orlando Magic’s Dwight Howard and the Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowtizki.
I have to agree with all the pick here and they are all deserving. A borderline pick maybe Nowitzki, who led his team to the second round after beating the San Antonio Spurs in the first. I think what pushed him to the first team All-NBA was the fact that he helped the Dallas Mavericks make the playoff and make their record good enough to be sixth. And he doesn’t have that much competition in his position for the award. Overall, I love the selection of this team.
The second team is composed of New Orleans Hornets’ Chris Paul, Brandon Roy of the Trailblazers, the Spurs’ Tim Duncan, Celtics’ Paul Pierce and Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets.
I also like the picks here and they are all deserving. I also like the fact that Roy is there and he is being recognized as a top player in this league. He led the Trailblazers to the playoff and he has been a back to back All Star in a very competitive Western conference. That says a lot about Roy who I think should be a first team All NBA two to three years from now.
As for the third team All NBA, Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups represent the Denver Nuggets, Spurs’ Tony Parker, the Suns’ Shaquille O’neal and the Lakers’ Pau Gasol.
This looks like O’neal’s last All-NBA team unless he still has the legs and energy to beat rising star Al Jefferson (as long as the T’Wolves improve), Amare Stoudemire, Chris Bosh and even Andrea Bargnani. But it’s nice to see Shaq playing like an All Star and an All NBA player this year even at his age of 37 (36 during most of the season) and he really deserves to be included here.
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