Did Avery Bradley get robbed of All-Defensive team? A load of NBA players think Boston Celtics guard deserved honor

It seems to be pretty widespread across the league; players don't understand how Bradley was left off.  Lots of laughs about IT getting an all-defensive vote, including from IT, who then turned it around and expressed his shock that Bradley was dissed.  Something wrong with the way this year's teams got put together if Bradley is shut out.

I do not think that Bradley was left out as he didn't appear to me to play quite as good defense as he did in the previous season. That could have been due to injury as he did miss over 20 games this past season.

I am sure AB will have plenty of motivation for next season.

dboss

The games missed by Joel Embiid didn't push him off the All-Rookie first team. He ended up with the 3rd highest vote tally. If he had finished out the year, he surely would have had top marks.

I don't think the games missed and subsequent path back to 100% should have counted against Avery Bradley so much either. Perhaps it would have pushed him off the first team, but he still should have made the second team. The only player that perhaps was over-rated at his position is Chris Paul.

I guess the difference between All-Rookie teams and All-Defense teams is the size of the pool of players competing for the award. Avery was competing against the entire league, where Joel was competing against only the rookies.

gyso