{"id":741018,"date":"2026-05-22T11:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/741018\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:51:16","slug":"cooepr-flagg-joins-nba-all-rookie-1st-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/741018\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooepr Flagg joins NBA All-Rookie 1st team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Dallas&#8217; Cooper Flagg, Charlotte&#8217;s Kon Knueppel and Philadelphia&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe were unanimous first-team selections for the NBA&#8217;s All-Rookie team, which was unveiled Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Also making first-team All-Rookie: San Antonio&#8217;s Dylan Harper and Memphis&#8217; Cedric Coward. Harper also appeared on all 100 ballots, with 93 first-team nods and seven second-team votes.<\/p>\n<p>Those five players were also the only ones to get votes in the Rookie of the Year balloting, where Flagg edged Knueppel for top honors.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Rookie second team included New Orleans&#8217; Jeremiah Fears and Derik Queen, Utah&#8217;s Ace Bailey, Sacramento&#8217;s Maxime Reynaud and Toronto&#8217;s Collin Murray-Boyles.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA will announce the All-Defensive team on Friday and the All-NBA team on Sunday, with Coach of the Year set to be announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Dallas&#8217; Cooper Flagg, Charlotte&#8217;s Kon Knueppel and Philadelphia&#8217;s VJ Edgecombe were unanimous first-team selections&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[4592,4594,4591,2097,7,292,194,4066,4593,6,211,66],"class_list":["post-741018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-rockets","tag-app-around-maine","tag-app-in-the-community","tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","tag-associated-press","tag-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houstonrockets","tag-maine","tag-nba","tag-rockets","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116618086867410931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}