KIA NBA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR ANDREW WIGGINS
HEADLINES 2014-15 NBA ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
NEW YORK, May 18, 2015 – The Minnesota
Timberwolves’ Andrew
Wiggins, the 2014-15 Kia NBA Rookie
of the Year, headlines the 2014-15 NBA
All-Rookie First Team, the NBA announced today. Wiggins was the lone unanimous
choice, receiving 130 First Team votes from a panel of sportswriters and
broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada.
Wiggins
is joined on the First Team by the Chicago Bulls’ Nikola Mirotic (128 First
Team votes, 258 points), the Philadelphia 76ers’ Nerlens Noel (125 First Team votes,
252 points), the Orlando Magic’s Elfrid Payton (121 First Team votes, 250
points) and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson (74 First Team votes, 200
points).
The NBA
All-Rookie Second Team consists of the Boston Celtics’ Marcus Smart (142
points, 28 First Team votes), the Timberwolves’ Zach LaVine (135 points, 22
First Team votes), the Brooklyn Nets’ Bojan Bogdanovic (107 points, seven First
Team votes), the Denver Nuggets’ Jusuf Nurkic (97 points, three First Team
votes) and the New York Knicks’ Langston Galloway (72 points, seven First Team
votes).
The
panel was asked to select five players for the First Team and five players for
the Second Team, regardless of position. Two points were awarded for First Team
votes and one for Second Team votes.
Wiggins averaged a
rookie-high 16.9 points, the second-best mark by a first-year player in
Minnesota history, behind Christian Laettner’s 18.2 points in 1992-93. He
appeared in all 82 games and ranked fourth in the NBA with a rookie-leading
36.2 minutes, the highest average ever by a Timberwolves rookie. Wiggins, the
first Canadian-born winner of the Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Award, won Kia NBA
Western Conference Rookie of the Month honors four times.
Mirotic also appeared in all
82 games, averaging 10.2 points in 20.2 minutes. He was the Kia NBA Eastern Conference
Rookie of the Month in December and March. Mirotic paced all rookies and the
Bulls in scoring (20.8 ppg) in March, when he also led the NBA in total
fourth-quarter points (136) and fourth-quarter scoring average (9.1).
Noel led all rookies in
rebounding (8.1 rpg), steals (1.77 spg, 10th in the NBA) and blocks
(1.89 bpg, seventh in the league). He was the only player in the league to rank
in the top 10 in both steals and blocks. Noel became the second rookie in NBA
history to average at least 1.50 steals and 1.50 blocks; David Robinson
accomplished the feat in 1989-90.
The NBA
All-Rookie First Team is rounded out by Payton, the rookie leader in assists
(6.5 apg), and Clarkson, who averaged 16.7 points in 28 games after the
All-Star break and was named the Kia NBA Western Conference Rookie of the Month
for March.
For the second year in a row,
complete media voting results for each NBA annual award will be posted on NBA.com/official
after the announcement of each winner. Click here
for those results.
Attached are the balloting results for the 2014-15 NBA
All-Rookie teams. The balloting was
tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP.
2014-15 NBA
ALL-ROOKIE FIRST TEAM
Player Team First (2 pt) Second (1 Pt) Total
Andrew Wiggins Minnesota 130 - 260
Nikola Mirotic Chicago 128 2 258
Nerlens Noel Philadelphia
125 2 252
Elfrid Payton Orlando 121 8 250
Jordan Clarkson L.A. Lakers 74 52 200
2014-15 NBA
ALL-ROOKIE SECOND TEAM
Player Team First (2 pt) Second (1 Pt) Total
Marcus Smart Boston 28 86 142
Zach LaVine Minnesota 22 91 135
Bojan Bogdanovic Brooklyn 7 93 107
Jusuf Nurkic Denver
3 91 97
Langston Galloway New York 7 58 72
Other players receiving votes,
with point totals (first-place votes in parentheses):
Rodney
Hood, Utah, 54 (1); Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers, 28; K.J. McDaniels, Houston, 20;
Dante Exum, Utah, 17 (3); Jabari Parker, Milwaukee, 13; Mitch McGary, Oklahoma
City, 9; Aaron Gordon, Orlando, 5 (1); Spencer Dinwiddie, Detroit, 4; Jerami
Grant, Philadelphia, 4; Kostas Papanikolaou, Houston, 4; T.J. Warren, Phoenix,
4; Damjan Rudez, Indiana, 3; Tyler Ennis, Milwaukee, 2; Joe Ingles, Utah, 2;
JaKarr Sampson, Philadelphia, 2; James Ennis, Miami, 1; Cory Jefferson,
Brooklyn, 1; Tyler Johnson, Miami, 1; Shabazz Napier, Miami, 1; Nik Stauskas,
Sacramento, 1; James Young, Boston, 1.
