KD was out for 20+ games, so that's a bit inflated. Points are also inflated when basically all you shoot is 3's. He's not doing very well in the playoffs so far being the 3rd option.
Matthew Espinosa Not inflated at all. Klay took the same amount of shots as last season. he shot over 51% in 2 pointers. he attempts and makes more 2's than 3's. he's a 3 point specialist, yes. but his stats not inflated at all. especially because he doesn't get to the free throw line. He's actually one of the pure scorers
How are points inflated when all you do is shoot 3's lmao.... it's a 3 because it's harder to make. Plus shooting threes isn't even all he does anyway.
Led the league in assists, 55 wins, avg 29,8,11, first player ever to have 2000 pts and 2000 pts assisted on, and he's a contender to win the NBA MVP award. But your telling me he shouldn't be on the first team? This is so disrespectful. THIS IS BLASPHEMOUS!!!
thebeast12333 wtf how is he overrated? Without him the rockets wouldn't even be in the playoffs. The guy LED THE LEAGUE IN ASSISTS! If your basing this off his game 6 performance than your just stupid.
Not just game 6. He was awful in most games and done next to nothing against OKC. He is a free throw merchant and when he isn't getting the bs calls to send him to the line he struggles. He isn't up there with the true elite players who actually make a difference and are offensively skilled. Not sure how people still don't see this and think Harden is some sort of top player. Not to mention he's a turnover machine but of course you conveniently don't bring that up. People like you are the problem so caught up in looking at the box score and reading out stats without having much basketball knowledge.
Junior Prieto His game relies on getting fouled. Take his flops away and that cuts his average points to 19. Most of his teammates are small, three-point snipers. That's why he gets so many rebounds and assists. That's the same reason why other teams that play the three-point line so heavily are known for scoring a ton off of assists. (Cavs, Warriors) It's not hard to rack up assists when the person you pass the ball too has a 50% chance of making it. At the end of the day, James Harden is a glorified six man. He completely collapses under pressure and is a defensive liability. If teams play him like the Spurs did next season, I wouldn't be surprised if he's averaging 20, 5, 5. I also wouldn't be surprised if the league changes some rules because of him. At this point his flopping is ridiculous, and everyone is beginning to see it.
Durant is absolutely one of the top 3 players in the world, but guess which two are considered better than him? The two guys that made it to the 1st team: Kawhi Leonard and LeBron James. As long as those two are still in the game, all other Forwards are really just competing for 2nd team.
laserhawk221 no leonard and lebron being better players and having better season is why kd isn't on it just like last year and the year before and last couple seasons
Bernard Brunu That is such a garbage stat if you ACTUALLY look into it instead of just repeating shit youve heard. Nearly all the games that they won that he missed were against some of the worst teams in the league. He carries the 2nd best team in the League in the regular season while Kevin Durant gets to take it easy with 3 other All Stars. Kawhi Leonard is his teams best offensive AND defensive player, and he missed far less games. Whatever success KD has over the next few years of his career wont mean SHIT since he had to run away to golden state to win.
We're talking this year as in 2017, not 2015, not 2016, this year!! and you can't tell me Durant had a better season than James Harden who kept dropping back to back 40+ points triple doubles like it was nobody's business
Ice King A GM would pick DD's production this year over Klay's this year majority of the time. Demar was the best player on a 50+ win team that was missing it's second best guy for a long stretch and had to adjust to some mid season trades. DD is definitely deserving this year
BGS are you sure find the stats bro. Lol you don't think your performance changes when going from the 2 best player to the 3rd and a argument can be made draymond is better not saying that's true
BGS take Kevin love for example the Minnesota Kevin love and the cav k love don't even play like the same person he was way better and dominant lessen his role and is he even a top 5 pf? Debatable.
curry on a team with 3 other stars and has the luxury of having klay green and others playing defense to make up for his trash defense sorry but dont come here talking about curry is first team.
Kevin Durant not better than Kawhi this Season The real snub is DeAndre over KAT and Isaiah Thomas no defense all scoring BuMaSs should be 3rd team and John Wall should be 2nd
Golden Screen Warriors this season but he is a better player and technically 25 on 52% fg with better assist and better rebounding is actually better than kawhi
treyvone scott I know but Kawhi vastly improved his scoring, great defense, 26 points on 49%, and had his team 6 less wins than Golden State with KD being out 20 games
You know what I hate? Ppl say that winning should be part of voting and I agree... But then they say take off DeRozan and put in Thompson???? Davis's team had less wins, Giannis's teams had less, Gobert had the same, DeAndre Jordan had the same, Butler had less, and John Wall had less. And then they go on with their Paul George over DeRozan while his team had less wins, then they say Chris Paul who missed 20 games. And they totally forget DeRozan led the Raptors to what was, a 14-7 record without his last year all NBA pg Lowry! People don't like DeRozan for some reason... He is clearly underrated
Max Demar Derozan is the best shooting guard in the the league and had a really good season. it was better that CP3's. I won't lie but CP3 is a good player though. Derozan just had a better season
Haha defrozen most overrated sorry ass sg.Hes a choke artest. Jimmy butler, klay thompson, bradley beal, are all better sg. If we add all gaurds hes not even top 10.
I agree. Chris Paul is definitely the better player and 100x more valuable but he got injured and missed like 20games. I still think he shouldve been there ahead of Derozan (CP3 is better offensively and defensively) but I wouldn't call it that much of a snub.
Klay shouldn't make the all NBA ahead of Butler and the fact that Stephen A said that simply disappoints me. If Klay played for the Bulls I doubt they'd even win 30games in the east. KD didn't make the All NBA first team because HE PLAYED 62GAMES OUT OF 81GAMES and had 2070minutes. Anthony Davis had 2708 minutes so basically he played 33% more basketball than KD did also KD isn't a center. Kawhi lead his team to 61wins with no other superstar/all star. KD had 3 and got just 67wins. He is also an MVP candidate and played 400+ more minutes than KD.
In what way? Butler is a better scorer, passer, defender, rebounder, etc. Klay is a better 3pt scorer but still isn't as efficient as Butler at scoring so it wouldn't really matter.
+Emmanuel Segun Smith is an idiot for saying that Butler shouldnt be on the NBA All Teams. Butler carried his Bulls to playoffs while if Klay was it that positom the bulls wouldnt do anything Butler is the overall better player than Klay sure Klay can shoot but what else.....
+lemon House Bruh are you being serious? Klay can't dribble first of all. 2. Butler is a better passer. 3. Butler is a better rebounder BY FAR. 4. Butler is a better defender. 5. Butler is a better scorer(Klay is VERY slightly more efficiently while taking open shots on GSW and also not scoring as much as Butler). The only thing Klay does better than Butler is shoot 3pters and that's not even an exaggeration.
Emmanuel O fuck NO, this ain't a hair style competition. Kevin Durant should be first team, green and Curry definitely second team, Klay Thompson 3rd team, for sure.
+Angee blackee Kawhi and LeBron are far better overall and better complete players, and they are both far more valuable to their team. Warriors would still be winning without KD.
Matthew Espinosa kawhi is not better than KD. Tell me how many good seasons did he have? KD been better than him every season. Even this season KD is still better the only thing kawhi is better at KD is defense but KD is also good defender.
Kevin durant is just as complete as kawhi. KD is the best scorer in the league and a pretty good defender himself. He is the second best player on the planet behind lebron. Durant shouldnt be first team this year only cuz he missed 1/4 of the season.
1st team 1. Lebron 2. Kawhi 3. Westbrook 4. KD 5. Steph 2nd team 1. Anthony Davis 2. James harden 3. Demarcus Cousin 4. Damian Lillard 5. Draymond Green 3rd team 1. Karl Anthony towns 2. Isaiah Thomas 3. Paul George 4. Kyrie Irving 5. John wall
Stephen A is stupid for saying Klay should make it over Butler. Butler is the heart and soul of the Bulls and had an extremely impressive statistical season. Plus the Warriors already had a player on each All-NBA team. How are you gonna say the guy with the 3rd most win shares in the NBA this year doesn't make a single All-NBA team? This is the exact reason why Deandre Jordan consistently make All-NBA teams. These are two guys who impact winning, not putting up empty stats like DeMarcus Cousins.
Bro you can't have FOUR Warriors on the All NBA Teams. I'm cool with the Warriors having 4 All Stars, but Klay Thompson is not a Top 15 NBA player this year. Also it was a complete joke that Westbrook and LeBron got one 2nd team vote and Kawhi got one 3rd team vote
Harden being the only unanimous selection makes me real happy for him, because if you remember last season he was left off completely and a year later he had the best year of his NBA career and made First Team All-NBA with 500 total votes and 100 First Team votes. It's always nice to see somebody's hard work pay off, even if Harden's season didn't have a happy ending.
No way. Kawhi has proven himself to be the second best player in the NBA this season. Durant still the best scorer and definitely top 5, but Leonard is better because what he is able to do on both ends, not just one
I'm not on that Durant defense hype train. The guy is 7ft tall he is going to get blocks. Can he stay in front of elite SF's? No. Kawhi and LeBron have proven that
Why are you acting like defense is suddenly 10x more valuable than offense lol. Durant is better than Kawhi at literally everything offensively. Kawhi is better than him defensively but again, Durant is not bad defensively himself. Is he spectacular? No but how many things is Kawhi better at than Durant? One. Defense. How many things is Durant better at than Kawhi? LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
The biggest snub on the list is not having Curry on the 1st team but to take it even further is how in the hell not one Warrior is on the 1st team sickening
Rey TheKing....I'll rather put the water boy off of each team on the (all NBA team) I can count on them to be there not these lazy lack of defense playing fucks!
CANCERPLAYS like I said you don't watch him play the only threes he takes are when he has to like when the clock is about to run out. I'll give you the fact that Jimmy Butler is a better Defender but DeMar DeRozan is just so offensively gifted
Westbrook (Only because he averaged a triple double) Kawhi (#1 Defender in the world and no stars around him) LeBron Durant Draymond (A. Davis needs to prove himself in playoffs and Draymond is #2 defender) Steph (Only because KD arrived and doesn't mind allowing Durant to have some shine) Harden George Giannis Anthony Davis Isaiah (Only for his breakout year, defense offsets his offense) John Wall Klay Karl-Anthony Towns (Slept on, 25 ppg 12.3 rbs 26 PER) Cousins (27 ppg, 11 rbs, 25.84 PER)
Gordon Hayward got absolutely robbed tbh. And did SAS really say Klay should have been in? Lmao he literally just confirmed he has no idea wtf he's talking about. Klay isn't even in this conversation.
derozan helps his team, chris Paul hurts his team. Derozan is crucial to the raptors' success, Klay has been invisible in these playoffs and the Warriors are doing great. Derozan is staying
Emmanuel Segun he hurts his team, dribbling 20 seconds off the shot clock, finally giving to blake or reddick to take a tough shot. he's easily the most overrated pg since Gilbert Arenas
Call someone dumb then make an absolutely retarded statement lmao. John Wall is without a doubt the best 2 way PG. Chris Paul is out of his prime and overrated. Not even coke could make a GM take CP3 over Derozan
Jacob Mani are you fucking kidding me?!? Chris Paul is one of the best players in adavanced metrics and top 5 in RPM stats. DeRozan is horrible in terms of advanced stats. He can't shoot the 3 and is an atrocious defender. Fucking moron. Chris Paul is literally the reason the Clippers had such a good season.
Karl Anthony Towns averaging 25points 12rebounds and 3 assists yet doesn't make the 3rd team??? Don't pull the defense card on me because Thomas's defense is non-existent. Don't pull the not a winner card on me either cause Anthony Davis is a first team player without even making the playoffs 😠😠😠
Klay Thompson is an overrated defender and inconsistent Just look at how he's doing in the playoffs right now...only 2 games over 20 points in the playoffs a PER of 7.6
Exactly. Butler was the only serious threat on his team and is by far better defensively than Klay. I get Kevin Durant, but who is he going in over? Kawhi? Kawhi is by far the better defender, and is also great on offense.
supremo shaider harden dont choke. he was amazing in game 6, amazingly bad 😂😂😂 bad enough to be the 2nd worst performace by a superstar next to lebron 😂
Harden has choked every single playoff series including on OKC(he actually cost them the series)...KD has beaten the spurs a few times in the playoffs....
can someone tell me what max is smoking this guy said cp3 is better than derozen when cp3 wasn't even in the asg and derozen was 5th in the NBA in scoring.
THIS IS THE 2ND YR IN A ROW THAT KD WAS SNUBBED ON ALL NBA FIRST TEAM THANK TO THAT MUTE DOWN IN SAN ANTONIO 2015-2016: kd averaged 28,8, and 5 on 50%,38%,90% shooting Kawhi averaged 21,6, and 2 😂😂😂 on 50,44,87 ▪️im not even gonna mention how kd exposed kawhi and the spurs in the west semis last yr 2016-2017 ( while sharing the ball with 3 other all NBA caliber players) Kd averaged 25, 8 and 4 on 53,37,87 Kawhi ( as the lone star and primary option on offense ) averaged 25,6 and 3 on 48,38,88 So tell kawhi-tards what does kawhi do better than kd besides being a slightly better defender?
KD is definitely a better 3pt shooter than Kawhi is. However KD gets his 25 because he plays with the best shooting backcourt in the game. He can't be triple teamed even though his talent demands it and the floor is as stretched as it can be. If you honestly believe that KD gets his 25 in the same effort and manner Kawhi gets his, then you are out of your mind. You think Kawhi wouldn't produce the same or better numbers if he can't be doubled or tripled every time he goes down the lane? You think Kawhi wouldn't get as many assists if he was passing to lights out shooters around him? You see how many times Kawhi drives and kicks the ball out only for Danny Green or Tony Parker to miss an open shot?
Ok what year was that exactly? And what do you even mean less stars? That makes no sense. How can he have less star teammates on his team than Kawhi when Kawhi is the only star in his team. Not to mention that's not even true because he's always had Westbrook.
Momen Khan ok but what about the years before like stephan a said. the 73 win and the year before that team. it was klay and steph carrying that team. dumb ass
1st Team James Harden Russell Westbrook LeBron James Kawhi Leonard Anthony Davis 2nd Team Stephen Curry Isaiah Thomas Giannis Antetokounpo Karl Anthony-Towns John Wall 3rd Team DeMar DeRozan Damian Lillard DeMarcus Cousins Hassan Whiteside Paul George 4th Team Honorable Mentions Kevin Durant Jimmy Butler Draymond Green Gordon Hayward Kyrie Irving
Snubs: Dame, CP, Hayward, Klay Undeserving: Draymond, Jimmy Butler No mans Land (meaning I wouldn't be upset if they made it or didn't): Derozan, Greek Freak, Kyrie, Kemba, K Love, McCollum, Gobert, DJ, Boogie Comment if I missed some players
Demar was the only one that stepped up for the Raptors and showed that he wanted to win in the playoffs and his dominating performance last year in the playoffs is why the Raps made it to the ECF and took the cave to six games. Do you know how many times he was doubled and tripled teams, and even when he passed the ball to the open man, the mother fuckers couldn't even bank one in. He had to do a lot of carrying for this team. Need I remind you all of how many times lowry was out for the season and still Demar broke franchise records and helped carry his team. His defence has improved a bit over the regular season thanks to the addition of PJ who helped improve his defensive skills. Even if he had a bad game, he bounced back big time. Had 8 its in one game, came back to have 32 pts and didn't't score under 20 again vs Milwaukee and had a big game to close out the series. 5 pts, came back to break his career high in playoff scoring and had a big game to try to keep the playoff hopes alive. He is only going to get better and I think he should win most improved player because of seeing how his stats had a major increase over his career. If the team sets the right pieces around Demar, a bright future is heading down Toronto's path.
Stephen A Smith doesn't understand that it's not about team success. It's an individual award. That's why Klay Thompson isn't on there. It's fair to me.
James Harden averaged 29 ppg 7.5 ast 7 reb last year and was snubbed from the all NBA teams. This year he was 29 ppg 11 ast 8 reb and yall still think he shouldn't be on the list? Foh
People are complaining that the entire Golden State Warriors team isn't on the All-NBA team. There are better SG's in the league, and Klay wasn't one of them.
Davis averaged 28/12 on over 50% from the field, and playing high level defense and Stephen A thinks that KD should have been first team over him? Smokin' something
Stephen A Smith's face when Max was speaking, lol.
there's something wrong with Max, I'm not a Harden fan but even I know easily Harden is 1st team all NBA
Max is rerarded for saying Harden isnt 1st team
boogie is by far the biggest snub
Luka Calov I think KAT should be at least 2nd team
Westbrook G.O.A.T not sure bruh
Kat aint that good
I think whiteside and jokic are better
"kat aint that"
dude shut the fuck up and never watch basketball again.
Luka Calov harden is one of the most inconsistent stars in the league tho
xxRoyalll he clearly is dumbass maybe watch some games instead of yt highlights
KD missed like 20 games thats why he didn't make first team
Rushking20 #terribletowels or maybe because Kawhi is the more complete player....
Lebron miss 8 games with no injury, whats your point?
ROLANDA B how kwahi a more a complete player he don't rebound better or assist better he just a better defender
mikediao15 Missing eight games isn't the same as missing 1\4 of the season
mikediao15 8 isn't 20+ nigga
Klay is the 3rd option on his team and still averages 22.3 ppg very impressive.
KD was out for 20+ games, so that's a bit inflated. Points are also inflated when basically all you shoot is 3's. He's not doing very well in the playoffs so far being the 3rd option.
Matthew Espinosa Not inflated at all. Klay took the same amount of shots as last season. he shot over 51% in 2 pointers. he attempts and makes more 2's than 3's. he's a 3 point specialist, yes. but his stats not inflated at all. especially because he doesn't get to the free throw line. He's actually one of the pure scorers
poopdude444 he's actually 4th.
Cameron Hall he's 3rd and takes the same amount of shots as last year
How are points inflated when all you do is shoot 3's lmao.... it's a 3 because it's harder to make. Plus shooting threes isn't even all he does anyway.
Led the league in assists, 55 wins, avg 29,8,11, first player ever to have 2000 pts and 2000 pts assisted on, and he's a contender to win the NBA MVP award. But your telling me he shouldn't be on the first team? This is so disrespectful. THIS IS BLASPHEMOUS!!!
Harden is so overrated it's not even funny any more. Max is absolutely right. KD> Harden all day every day.
thebeast12333 wtf how is he overrated? Without him the rockets wouldn't even be in the playoffs. The guy LED THE LEAGUE IN ASSISTS! If your basing this off his game 6 performance than your just stupid.
Not just game 6. He was awful in most games and done next to nothing against OKC. He is a free throw merchant and when he isn't getting the bs calls to send him to the line he struggles. He isn't up there with the true elite players who actually make a difference and are offensively skilled. Not sure how people still don't see this and think Harden is some sort of top player. Not to mention he's a turnover machine but of course you conveniently don't bring that up. People like you are the problem so caught up in looking at the box score and reading out stats without having much basketball knowledge.
Junior Prieto His game relies on getting fouled. Take his flops away and that cuts his average points to 19. Most of his teammates are small, three-point snipers. That's why he gets so many rebounds and assists. That's the same reason why other teams that play the three-point line so heavily are known for scoring a ton off of assists. (Cavs, Warriors) It's not hard to rack up assists when the person you pass the ball too has a 50% chance of making it.
At the end of the day, James Harden is a glorified six man. He completely collapses under pressure and is a defensive liability. If teams play him like the Spurs did next season, I wouldn't be surprised if he's averaging 20, 5, 5. I also wouldn't be surprised if the league changes some rules because of him. At this point his flopping is ridiculous, and everyone is beginning to see it.
he done next to nothing against OKC? 33PPG, 7assists, 6.4rebounds on 59.7% True shooting %
Max has an obsession with disrespecting harden
Durant is absolutely one of the top 3 players in the world, but guess which two are considered better than him? The two guys that made it to the 1st team: Kawhi Leonard and LeBron James. As long as those two are still in the game, all other Forwards are really just competing for 2nd team.
Victor Sullivan but Thats only one season though. What year has kawhi been better? Look at their stats and come back to me.
So next year according to Stephen A.
First Team:
Golden State + best center
Are you kiddin' me?!?
Simone Brunini SAS on the pipe
lol how did u get that from SAS saying Klay should have made the thirds team??
2:45 when Max says he'd take DeRozan off the list, the look on Stephen A's face is priceless lmao
Zaza is why kd isnt first team
word (from a gsw fan)
laserhawk221 no leonard and lebron being better players and having better season is why kd isn't on it just like last year and the year before and last couple seasons
how did leonard have a better season? Less blocks, less rebounds, same points with much less shots, better field goal percentage
evolution71 The spurs went 8-1 without leonard and they won most of those games with just role players. The system is the main reason for the success.
Bernard Brunu That is such a garbage stat if you ACTUALLY look into it instead of just repeating shit youve heard. Nearly all the games that they won that he missed were against some of the worst teams in the league. He carries the 2nd best team in the League in the regular season while Kevin Durant gets to take it easy with 3 other All Stars. Kawhi Leonard is his teams best offensive AND defensive player, and he missed far less games. Whatever success KD has over the next few years of his career wont mean SHIT since he had to run away to golden state to win.
We're talking this year as in 2017, not 2015, not 2016, this year!! and you can't tell me Durant had a better season than James Harden who kept dropping back to back 40+ points triple doubles like it was nobody's business
How Demarcus cousins didn't make it
They don't put true C in there anymore, which is ridiculous. That means Cousins, Jordan, Gobert, and KAT will never get in.
Wtf are you talking about? Gobert had a lot of 1st team votes, last year it was jordan, 2 years ago it was gasol
Gabriel Carrasco lol what? Gobert and Jordan are both in.
Gabriel Carrasco you obviously didn't watch the video or check out the lists before your comment 😂😂😂😂
😂😂lmao Gabriel
There's hella guards on both conferences, so Klay wasn't gonna make it on the roster.
If KD didn't get hurt he would've been 1st team
Mike B then who you put on 2nd team Kawhi or lebron ?
Not under the current rules he wouldn't. LeBron and Kawhi would have still been ahead of him regardless.
JBIRD35 kawhi
KD deserved to be on the 2nd team. He's not carrying a team like Lebron and Kawhi.
Relax And Work you wrong. lebron has kyrie,kevin love, tristan, jr, shumpert like what's wrong with you . cavs are a superteam too
No ones gonna say Damian Lillard ? It's a crime how underrated this man is
DeRozan deserved to be there. Stop it Max
why? Not impressive defense, 1v1 guy who shoots jumper. Klay thompson is a way better shooter and way better defender
So Gms would pick Derozan over Klay?
Ben Hanssen do you understand how hard it is to score 27 when taking less than 2 threes a game......
@IAWSOM yeah 27 a game and if does not get his shot does not impact the game
Ice King A GM would pick DD's production this year over Klay's this year majority of the time. Demar was the best player on a 50+ win team that was missing it's second best guy for a long stretch and had to adjust to some mid season trades. DD is definitely deserving this year
3:50 is why I love First Take
Klay had that one good game other than that Kd took klays shine and some of his points
Emmanuel O how? klay shoots just as much as last year.
BGS are you sure find the stats bro. Lol you don't think your performance changes when going from the 2 best player to the 3rd and a argument can be made draymond is better not saying that's true
BGS take Kevin love for example the Minnesota Kevin love and the cav k love don't even play like the same person he was way better and dominant lessen his role and is he even a top 5 pf? Debatable.
BGS Yeah he shoots just as much and he's missing even more.
Your fucking stupid
They got the First Team right.
Nope, Steph Curry should be first team..He went into Houston and OKC and schooled Harden and Westbrook
impassable curry didn't have statistical outbursts like harden and westbrook
You can't be serious
Eddie Edge facts
curry on a team with 3 other stars and has the luxury of having klay green and others playing defense to make up for his trash defense sorry but dont come here talking about curry is first team.
Kevin Durant not better than Kawhi this Season
The real snub is DeAndre over KAT and Isaiah Thomas no defense all scoring BuMaSs should be 3rd team and John Wall should be 2nd
Golden Screen Warriors this season but he is a better player and technically 25 on 52% fg with better assist and better rebounding is actually better than kawhi
Golden Screen Warriors wall shouldn't be on the list
Golden Screen Warriors john wall shouldn't be on the list
treyvone scott I know but Kawhi vastly improved his scoring, great defense, 26 points on 49%, and had his team 6 less wins than Golden State with KD being out 20 games
Golden Screen Warriors I think wall is borderline 3rd team
stephen smith on that iconic *sigh* 3:54
What is Max smoking??!?!
First team
-Westbrook
-Harden
-Kawhi
-LeBron
-Durant
Second team
-Curry
-Wall
-Paul
-Davis
-Towns
Third team
-Thomas
-Butler
-George
-Thompson
-Gobert
You know what I hate? Ppl say that winning should be part of voting and I agree... But then they say take off DeRozan and put in Thompson???? Davis's team had less wins, Giannis's teams had less, Gobert had the same, DeAndre Jordan had the same, Butler had less, and John Wall had less. And then they go on with their Paul George over DeRozan while his team had less wins, then they say Chris Paul who missed 20 games. And they totally forget DeRozan led the Raptors to what was, a 14-7 record without his last year all NBA pg Lowry! People don't like DeRozan for some reason... He is clearly underrated
"Max I lost you"
"Do you hear me now?"
😂😂
First team:
-westbrook
-harden
-lebron
-kawhi
-durant
that i can agree with.
Durant played 2070minutes though... AD played 2700+ minutes
curry in place of harden.
Since the NBA is all about small ball nowadays, sure, that's a good list
center durant? lmaoooo
Should have been like this:
First-Team
G-Westbrook
G-Harden
F-James
F-Leonard
F-David
Second-Team
G-Curry
G-Wall
F-Durant
F-Butler
C-Cousins
Third-Team
G-Thomas
G-DeRozan
F-Hayward
F-George
C-Towns
Max Demar Derozan is the best shooting guard in the the league and had a really good season. it was better that CP3's. I won't lie but CP3 is a good player though. Derozan just had a better season
Haha defrozen most overrated sorry ass sg.Hes a choke artest. Jimmy butler, klay thompson, bradley beal, are all better sg. If we add all gaurds hes not even top 10.
I agree. Chris Paul is definitely the better player and 100x more valuable but he got injured and missed like 20games. I still think he shouldve been there ahead of Derozan (CP3 is better offensively and defensively) but I wouldn't call it that much of a snub.
DeRozan is not the best SG in the league. What is wrong with you
Dd Avwenagha exactly he had a historic raptors season he should be on there over CP3
ifingerfatkids He is someone that no one talks about, "overrated"?
First : curry harden lbj kawhi davis
Second : westbrook kyrie kd pg cousins
Third : wall thompson hayward draymond kat
Klay shouldn't make the all NBA ahead of Butler and the fact that Stephen A said that simply disappoints me. If Klay played for the Bulls I doubt they'd even win 30games in the east.
KD didn't make the All NBA first team because HE PLAYED 62GAMES OUT OF 81GAMES and had 2070minutes.
Anthony Davis had 2708 minutes so basically he played 33% more basketball than KD did also KD isn't a center.
Kawhi lead his team to 61wins with no other superstar/all star. KD had 3 and got just 67wins. He is also an MVP candidate and played 400+ more minutes than KD.
actually klay would be a way better for for the bulls
In what way? Butler is a better scorer, passer, defender, rebounder, etc. Klay is a better 3pt scorer but still isn't as efficient as Butler at scoring so it wouldn't really matter.
+Emmanuel Segun Smith is an idiot for saying that Butler shouldnt be on the NBA All Teams. Butler carried his Bulls to playoffs while if Klay was it that positom the bulls wouldnt do anything Butler is the overall better player than Klay sure Klay can shoot but what else.....
Emmanuel Segun klay better at everything over bulter besides drawing contacts
+lemon House Bruh are you being serious? Klay can't dribble first of all. 2. Butler is a better passer. 3. Butler is a better rebounder BY FAR. 4. Butler is a better defender. 5. Butler is a better scorer(Klay is VERY slightly more efficiently while taking open shots on GSW and also not scoring as much as Butler).
The only thing Klay does better than Butler is shoot 3pters and that's not even an exaggeration.
Both Demarcus Cousins and KAT deserved all-NBA honors more than DJ and Gobert
Gordon Hayward was more deserving than klay
he is a forward not a guard
Ujjal Ray Did you not watch the damn video it was about how positions shouldn't matter.
shouldn't matter according to these 2? But in actual fact they do matter when voting. I think it would be nonsensical to have no positions
Emmanuel O fuck NO, this ain't a hair style competition. Kevin Durant should be first team, green and Curry definitely second team, Klay Thompson 3rd team, for sure.
Chris King ha you're stupid
3:56 and so on , I lost it 😂😂 Stephen a funny as hell 😂😂
Kevin Durant is clearly behind Kawhi and Lebron at this point so why would he receive a 1st team selection over either of them ?
John Berry how is he behind?
Angee blackee Kawhi and Lebron are more complete players
+Angee blackee Kawhi and LeBron are far better overall and better complete players, and they are both far more valuable to their team. Warriors would still be winning without KD.
Matthew Espinosa kawhi is not better than KD. Tell me how many good seasons did he have? KD been better than him every season. Even this season KD is still better the only thing kawhi is better at KD is defense but KD is also good defender.
Kevin durant is just as complete as kawhi. KD is the best scorer in the league and a pretty good defender himself. He is the second best player on the planet behind lebron. Durant shouldnt be first team this year only cuz he missed 1/4 of the season.
1st team
1. Lebron
2. Kawhi
3. Westbrook
4. KD
5. Steph
2nd team
1. Anthony Davis
2. James harden
3. Demarcus Cousin
4. Damian Lillard
5. Draymond Green
3rd team
1. Karl Anthony towns
2. Isaiah Thomas
3. Paul George
4. Kyrie Irving
5. John wall
Max is blasphemous to take harden off the first team
Emmanuel O Harden is not the best Guard in the NBA...
but he is the best SHOOTING GUARD in the Nba
Two words: Game six...
pauliusc0429 tru but one game shouldn't define what he did all season he was ballin
pauliusc0429 All nba teams is based on the regular season buddy
Lol Harden must've done something to Max. That is ridiculous to leave him off the team hahahahaha.
Stephen A is stupid for saying Klay should make it over Butler. Butler is the heart and soul of the Bulls and had an extremely impressive statistical season. Plus the Warriors already had a player on each All-NBA team. How are you gonna say the guy with the 3rd most win shares in the NBA this year doesn't make a single All-NBA team? This is the exact reason why Deandre Jordan consistently make All-NBA teams. These are two guys who impact winning, not putting up empty stats like DeMarcus Cousins.
Talha K klay thompson is better
Max almost made my head explode when he said James Harden shouldn't be on the 1st team
Bro you can't have FOUR Warriors on the All NBA Teams. I'm cool with the Warriors having 4 All Stars, but Klay Thompson is not a Top 15 NBA player this year. Also it was a complete joke that Westbrook and LeBron got one 2nd team vote and Kawhi got one 3rd team vote
KingGolDragon 1 game doesn't make u a top 15 player, u can't just use that 1 game to justify that belief
bumdog I have Klay 4th at his position
one of the best defending guards, team USA puts him on the best guard. Best player to be on an all star team since he is catch and shoot.
Silky Johnson I would have knocked of Draymond for Klay
And Devin Booker should be on the all star team because he scored 70 points in one game.
1st team: Westbrook, Harden, Leonard, James, Durant
2nd team: Curry, Wall, PG, IT, Davis
3rd team: Klay, Hayward, KAT, Draymond, Derozan
Anthony davis is not a top 5 imo...He is fucking good but without regular playoff run you cant be the 2nd best player
franky jr 7
Harden being the only unanimous selection makes me real happy for him, because if you remember last season he was left off completely and a year later he had the best year of his NBA career and made First Team All-NBA with 500 total votes and 100 First Team votes. It's always nice to see somebody's hard work pay off, even if Harden's season didn't have a happy ending.
Max Kellerman dumb saying Harden shouldn't be on first team. He had a phenomenal season. Davis is the only player you can put KD over
Curry and Durant Choke Brothers over Kawhi if he wasn't injured
No way. Kawhi has proven himself to be the second best player in the NBA this season. Durant still the best scorer and definitely top 5, but Leonard is better because what he is able to do on both ends, not just one
You realize Durant is a pretty good defender as well right? And he's better than Kawhi at everything else lmao
I'm not on that Durant defense hype train. The guy is 7ft tall he is going to get blocks. Can he stay in front of elite SF's? No. Kawhi and LeBron have proven that
Why are you acting like defense is suddenly 10x more valuable than offense lol. Durant is better than Kawhi at literally everything offensively. Kawhi is better than him defensively but again, Durant is not bad defensively himself. Is he spectacular? No but how many things is Kawhi better at than Durant? One. Defense. How many things is Durant better at than Kawhi? LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
The biggest snub on the list is not having Curry on the 1st team but to take it even further is how in the hell not one Warrior is on the 1st team sickening
HARDEN....DOE'S NOT PLAY DEFENSE. PUT HIM ON THE 4TH SQUAD
dabby dabby he's improved on defense stop it
dabby dabby curry,IT,Westbrook all don't play defense foh
Rey TheKing....I'll rather put the water boy off of each team on the (all NBA team) I can count on them to be there not these lazy lack of defense playing fucks!
dabby dabby He did play defense.
Deon Nelson... when was this?
You know damn well this will fuel those players who didn't get picked
put some respect on DeMar's name
KG Shooter no one understands that he's averaging 27 and pretty much takes no threes
IAWSOM thanks for understanding
KG Shooter demar is ass
CANCERPLAYS you don't watch him play if you say that
CANCERPLAYS like I said you don't watch him play the only threes he takes are when he has to like when the clock is about to run out. I'll give you the fact that Jimmy Butler is a better Defender but DeMar DeRozan is just so offensively gifted
Westbrook (Only because he averaged a triple double)
Kawhi (#1 Defender in the world and no stars around him)
LeBron
Durant
Draymond (A. Davis needs to prove himself in playoffs and Draymond is #2 defender)
Steph (Only because KD arrived and doesn't mind allowing Durant to have some shine)
Harden
George
Giannis
Anthony Davis
Isaiah (Only for his breakout year, defense offsets his offense)
John Wall
Klay
Karl-Anthony Towns (Slept on, 25 ppg 12.3 rbs 26 PER)
Cousins (27 ppg, 11 rbs, 25.84 PER)
Gordon Hayward got absolutely robbed tbh. And did SAS really say Klay should have been in? Lmao he literally just confirmed he has no idea wtf he's talking about. Klay isn't even in this conversation.
"Take Harden off the first team", yet he's the only unanimous first team player lmao.
derozan helps his team, chris Paul hurts his team. Derozan is crucial to the raptors' success, Klay has been invisible in these playoffs and the Warriors are doing great. Derozan is staying
Emmanuel Segun he hurts his team, dribbling 20 seconds off the shot clock, finally giving to blake or reddick to take a tough shot. he's easily the most overrated pg since Gilbert Arenas
he's dumb... The clippers are chris paul lol he's the best 2 way PG in the league
Call someone dumb then make an absolutely retarded statement lmao. John Wall is without a doubt the best 2 way PG. Chris Paul is out of his prime and overrated. Not even coke could make a GM take CP3 over Derozan
Jacob Mani are you fucking kidding me?!? Chris Paul is one of the best players in adavanced metrics and top 5 in RPM stats. DeRozan is horrible in terms of advanced stats. He can't shoot the 3 and is an atrocious defender. Fucking moron. Chris Paul is literally the reason the Clippers had such a good season.
I'm glad they have 2 centers show the Bigman some Love. Gobert has Clearly been number 1 in defensive ratings this year
Harden off the first team Max??? 😂😂😂😂 i love these kind of reactions from Stephen a 😂😂
butler better then klay
Fixes: Remove: Draymond Green, Deandre Jordan, Jimmy Butler
Fixes: Add Karl-Anthony Towns, Demarcus Cousins, Gordon Hayward
Gordon Hayward is the biggest snub on there.
Who's he making it over?
soz hes not better than butler
Gabriel Carrasco Green.
Gabriel Carrasco But really Paul George should have that spot.
Damian lillard
"They won 73 last year"...The award is for this year not last year or the year before
Karl Anthony Towns averaging 25points 12rebounds and 3 assists yet doesn't make the 3rd team??? Don't pull the defense card on me because Thomas's defense is non-existent. Don't pull the not a winner card on me either cause Anthony Davis is a first team player without even making the playoffs 😠😠😠
54% shooting. 37% 3pt shooting. And 83% FT. For a CENTER. yeah, he got snubbed.
Noe Glover KAT is a very poor defender. I think Gasol deserved the third team.
Its funny how in the all stars theres no center positions but in all nba team it does
Klay Thompson is an overrated defender and inconsistent
Just look at how he's doing in the playoffs right now...only 2 games over 20 points in the playoffs a PER of 7.6
Exactly. Butler was the only serious threat on his team and is by far better defensively than Klay. I get Kevin Durant, but who is he going in over? Kawhi? Kawhi is by far the better defender, and is also great on offense.
Gabriel Carrasco wtf are you smoking? Kawhi is definitely not better than Kevin Durant. The ONLY reason Kawhi is over is because Kevin was injured
Gabriel Carrasco Kawhi is only better on defense. And he's basically only a perimeter defender. Kevin is more of a shot disrupter
Golden Screen Warriors overrated defender? Lol you lost me there...stick to hockey kido
Golden Screen Warriors Klay Thompson constantly is getting torched by other players kyrie,harden,Westbrook etc.
I think Max sometimes says what he says just to piss Stephen A. Smith off for a bit and make it a show lol 😂
KD is a proven choker.
put klay on the bulls.
donkey green shouldn't be on the list
look at these gsw bandwagon fans. lol
supremo shaider harden dont choke. he was amazing in game 6, amazingly bad 😂😂😂 bad enough to be the 2nd worst performace by a superstar next to lebron 😂
Harden has choked every single playoff series including on OKC(he actually cost them the series)...KD has beaten the spurs a few times in the playoffs....
Dray is the most valuable Warrior
supremo shaider menn shut yo bitch ass up..
Whiteside's Stats: 17 pts, 14.1 rebounds, 2.1 blocks, 0.7 steals, 0.7 assists
DeAndre Jordan's Stats: 12.7 pts, 13.8 rebounds, 1.7 blocks, 0.6 steals, 1.2 assists
WTF
can someone tell me what max is smoking this guy said cp3 is better than derozen when cp3 wasn't even in the asg and derozen was 5th in the NBA in scoring.
Because defense actually matters in the NBA. I'm sick of people overrating 'pure scorers' who play no defense whatsoever, can't pass at all....
Philip Philips derozan averaged 4 assists per game, and hes not even a point guard
You guys acting like Kyle Lowry doesn't exist...
Philip Philips Harden and Steph can't play defense either, what makes derozen so different?
Scoring isn't everything, especially when it's not very efficient.
Stephen A. look at 3:58 into the video I almost died..........lollllllll
THIS IS THE 2ND YR IN A ROW THAT KD WAS SNUBBED ON ALL NBA FIRST TEAM THANK TO THAT MUTE DOWN IN SAN ANTONIO
2015-2016: kd averaged 28,8, and 5 on 50%,38%,90% shooting
Kawhi averaged 21,6, and 2 😂😂😂 on 50,44,87
▪️im not even gonna mention how kd exposed kawhi and the spurs in the west semis last yr
2016-2017 ( while sharing the ball with 3 other all NBA caliber players)
Kd averaged 25, 8 and 4 on 53,37,87
Kawhi ( as the lone star and primary option on offense ) averaged 25,6 and 3 on 48,38,88
So tell kawhi-tards what does kawhi do better than kd besides being a slightly better defender?
KD is definitely a better 3pt shooter than Kawhi is. However KD gets his 25 because he plays with the best shooting backcourt in the game. He can't be triple teamed even though his talent demands it and the floor is as stretched as it can be. If you honestly believe that KD gets his 25 in the same effort and manner Kawhi gets his, then you are out of your mind. You think Kawhi wouldn't produce the same or better numbers if he can't be doubled or tripled every time he goes down the lane? You think Kawhi wouldn't get as many assists if he was passing to lights out shooters around him? You see how many times Kawhi drives and kicks the ball out only for Danny Green or Tony Parker to miss an open shot?
exactly. I respect Kawhi but KD got snubbed last year in the NBA first team, which, he solidified in the West Semis.
+G N you do realize that KD averaged more with less stars on the team right? what are you smoking?
Ok what year was that exactly? And what do you even mean less stars? That makes no sense. How can he have less star teammates on his team than Kawhi when Kawhi is the only star in his team. Not to mention that's not even true because he's always had Westbrook.
how many championships does kd have?
3:55 "THAT'S BLASPHEMOUS"
hayward, dame, butler, george, mccollum all deserve it over klay
klay just got carried all year long
Momen Khan boy...klay would never get carried.
Momen Khan ok but what about the years before like stephan a said. the 73 win and the year before that team. it was klay and steph carrying that team. dumb ass
Stephen A thinking about quitting 😂
Klay Thompson is a overrated bum
Davis in the first team 😂😂 that's hilarious.
Stephen A Smith is a fool.
1st Team
James Harden
Russell Westbrook
LeBron James
Kawhi Leonard
Anthony Davis
2nd Team
Stephen Curry
Isaiah Thomas
Giannis Antetokounpo
Karl Anthony-Towns
John Wall
3rd Team
DeMar DeRozan
Damian Lillard
DeMarcus Cousins
Hassan Whiteside
Paul George
4th Team Honorable Mentions
Kevin Durant
Jimmy Butler
Draymond Green
Gordon Hayward
Kyrie Irving
cousins, kat, and hayward got snubbed....should replace deandre,draymond,gobert imo
My All-NBA Teams:
1st:
Westbrook
Harden
Leonard
Durant
James
2nd:
Thomas
Curry
Derozan
Antetokounmpo
Davis
3rd:
Wall
Thompson
Butler
George
Gobert
I think that's that extra motivation that the warriors needed lol
I love this channel 👌🏾😜
Stephen a's reaction 😂💀😂💀
it's a tough list to make , no matter how you slice it up you're always leaving off someone great off the list.
Snubs: Dame, CP, Hayward, Klay
Undeserving: Draymond, Jimmy Butler
No mans Land (meaning I wouldn't be upset if they made it or didn't): Derozan, Greek Freak, Kyrie, Kemba, K Love, McCollum, Gobert, DJ, Boogie
Comment if I missed some players
Stephen A's reaction LOL
DeRozan should definitely be in there max chatting some breeze in this
where is kyrie? wtf
Demar was the only one that stepped up for the Raptors and showed that he wanted to win in the playoffs and his dominating performance last year in the playoffs is why the Raps made it to the ECF and took the cave to six games. Do you know how many times he was doubled and tripled teams, and even when he passed the ball to the open man, the mother fuckers couldn't even bank one in. He had to do a lot of carrying for this team. Need I remind you all of how many times lowry was out for the season and still Demar broke franchise records and helped carry his team. His defence has improved a bit over the regular season thanks to the addition of PJ who helped improve his defensive skills. Even if he had a bad game, he bounced back big time. Had 8 its in one game, came back to have 32 pts and didn't't score under 20 again vs Milwaukee and had a big game to close out the series. 5 pts, came back to break his career high in playoff scoring and had a big game to try to keep the playoff hopes alive. He is only going to get better and I think he should win most improved player because of seeing how his stats had a major increase over his career. If the team sets the right pieces around Demar, a bright future is heading down Toronto's path.
Stephen A Smith doesn't understand that it's not about team success. It's an individual award. That's why Klay Thompson isn't on there. It's fair to me.
D.Jordan Lmaooo!!!!! James Harden needs ro stay on that list man
This nigga Stephen a James garden reaction is priceless
James Harden averaged 29 ppg 7.5 ast 7 reb last year and was snubbed from the all NBA teams. This year he was 29 ppg 11 ast 8 reb and yall still think he shouldn't be on the list? Foh
Max is channeling his inner Skip
Max is tripping. How do you leave harden off the first team?? And then he said Davis is the 2nd best player in the league. Pure comedy 😂😂😂
Well said Max!!!
Winning matters as a qualification
One of the few times i agree with Max. Positions in bball don't matter as much as they used to.
That first team makes perfect sense... not a fan of any of those players but it makes 100% sense
I believe Derozan had a way better season than Chris Paul
Harden not listed in 2015-16 season was the biggest snubbed...
People are complaining that the entire Golden State Warriors team isn't on the All-NBA team. There are better SG's in the league, and Klay wasn't one of them.
Davis averaged 28/12 on over 50% from the field, and playing high level defense and Stephen A thinks that KD should have been first team over him? Smokin' something