He was a key cog in one of the league's best defenses all season long on the way to the Celtics winning 61 games in the regular season.

In the last 43 years, only five players have earned All-Defensive First Team honors within their first two NBA seasons. Amen Thompson is one of them.

While Cleveland Cavaliers big man Evan Mobley ended up winning the award for the league’s top defensive player, the competition for the NBA All-Defensive teams was just as interesting with so ...

For most of NBA history, the announcement of All-NBA teams was a relatively low-stakes event. They existed for bragging rights and posterity. They boosted Hall of Fame cases and gave fans a quick snapshot of who mattered in a given season.

Defensive Player of the Year Evan Mobley was a first-team lock, as was Draymond Green after an impressive year on that end of the court. There were not a lot of surprises as the NBA unveiled its All-Defensive Teams on Thursday.

Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert was named to the NBA's All-Defensive Second Team on Thursday, the eighth time he's earned All-Defensive honors in his career.

Nikola Jokic made his seventh consecutive All-NBA team after being named MVP runner-up to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander earlier this week.

For the first time this decade, Adebayo missed out on making either of the All-NBA Defensive teams. The star big man is one of the better defenders in the NBA, but this is a significant miss for him. For first time this decade, Bam Adebayo was bypassed for All NBA defensive honors.