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Giannis perfect on All-NBA first team vote

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Giannis Antetokounmpo was the only player to receive all 100 possible NBA first-team votes.
Camera IconGiannis Antetokounmpo was the only player to receive all 100 possible NBA first-team votes. Credit: AP

Giannis Antetokounmpo, fellow two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic, Luka Doncic, Devin Booker and Jayson Tatum have been voted first-team All-NBA, the first time in 67 years all five players were age 27 or younger.

The Milwaukee Bucks' Antetokounmpo was the only player to receive all 100 possible first-team votes on Tuesday and finished with 500 points in his fourth consecutive first-team selection. The Denver Nuggets' Jokic and Dallas Mavericks' Doncic each received 88 first-team votes and 476 points.

Doncic joined Tim Duncan, Kevin Durant and Max Zaslofsky as the only players to make the first team three or more times before turning 24, while the Phoenix Suns' Booker (460 points) and Boston Celtics' Tatum (390) both were first-time selections to the first team.

Tatum is the first Celtics player to make All-NBA first team since Kevin Garnett in 2007-08 and the youngest Celtics player to make All-NBA first team since Larry Bird in 1979-80.

"100% deserved and more. Congrats fam! Proud of u all year! Let's keep it rollin!," Boston teammate Marcus Smart tweeted.

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The Philadelphia 76ers' Joel Embiid, the NBA's leading scorer and runner-up to Jokic for MVP, led the second team. He was joined by Ja Morant, winner of the Most Improved Player award, Durant, Stephen Curry and DeMar DeRozan.

The third team was Karl-Anthony Towns, LeBron James -- who earned his record-extending 18th All-NBA selection -- Chris Paul, Trae Young and Pascal Siakam.

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