Amen was selected as the best defensive team to set a record! The youngest team in history + fifth player, Rockets official sends congratulatory message

On May 23, the NBA playoffs continued. The NBA official announced the season's best defensive team earlier today. With his outstanding performance this season, Rockets star Amen Thompson was successfully selected for the first team of the best defensive team and set a series of records.

The specific personnel and votes of the first team of the best defensive team this season are as follows:

Mobley won 99 first votes, 1 second vote, with a total score of 199 points;

Dyson Daniels won 91 first votes, 9 second votes, with a total score of 191 points;

Dotter won 81 first votes, 18 second votes, with a total score of 180 points;

Zhu Meng won 81 first votes, 17 second votes, with a total score of 179 points;

Amen Thompson won 74 first votes, 23 second votes, with a total score of 171 points.

There is no doubt that compared with DPOY Mobley, the league's veteran defensive star Zhu Meng and others this season, Amen Thompson's selection is even more exciting. Not only is he the youngest player in the league's best defensive team this season, he has also become the youngest player in the Rockets' history to be selected as the first defense! He is also the first Rockets player to be selected for the All-Defensive Team since Beverly (first defense) in 2016-17, and the fifth player to be selected for the All-Defensive Team in the Rockets history. The previous four were: Olajuwon, Rodney McCree, Pippen and Beverly.

In the 2024-25 regular season, Amen Thompson averaged 14.1 points, 8.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.4 steals, 1.3 blocks and 2.4 fouls, with a shooting percentage of 55.7%, a three-point shooting percentage of 27.5%, and a free throw shooting percentage of 68.4%. His offensive efficiency is 114.2%, his defensive efficiency is 107.9%, his frontcourt rebounding rate is 7.8%, and his defensive rebounding rate is 15.9%.

Rockets officially posted a photo of Amen Thompson to congratulate him and wrote: "Amen Thompson was selected as the first team of the best defensive team this season. He won this honor in the second season of his career. Congratulations!"

Rockets coach Uduka praised Amen Thompson in an interview like this: "Amen Thompson is very hardworking. If not the best, he is also one of the best players. He has no upper limit. His versatility makes him the ending Swiss Army Knife type player. For him, the sky is the limit!"

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