Josh Giddey has laughed off his newest snubbing after the Australian teenager was relegated to the NBA All-Rookie second team regardless of a historic debut season for Oklahoma Metropolis.
The guard received 4 Western Convention rookie of the month awards however was pipped to the primary team spot by Houston’s Jalen Inexperienced, whose solely month-to-month award got here when Giddey was injured.
The choice, tweeted by The Athletic’s high-profile basketball journalist Shams Charania, drew a pair of crying-laughing emoji faces from Giddey himself in a cheeky response.
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It comes after Giddey admitted he was upset to be ignored for one in every of three nominations for the Rookie of the 12 months award final month.
“I missed a lot of games, which I understand, it is what it is. But I don’t want to dig too much into it,” Giddey mentioned then.
“Looking back in five or 10 years, it’s not going to bother me, so it sucks, it is disappointing, but we move on.”
In January the 19-year-old Giddey turned the youngest participant to register an NBA triple-double, a hip harm ending his season prematurely with a stat line of 12.5 factors, 7.8 rebounds, and seven.6 assists per sport.
Alongside Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Giddey gave the Thunder a lot to stay up for throughout a 24-58 season.
Inexperienced (17.3 factors, 3.4 rebounds, 2.6 assists) in the meantime was a part of the one team to complete beneath them within the West, the Rockets slumping to a 20-62 marketing campaign.
However Inexperienced’s efforts had been nonetheless sufficient to win over the voting media and broadcasters, who had been requested to pick out their five-man rookie first and second groups.
Gamers obtained two factors for every first team vote and one for every second team vote, Giddey accumulating 24 first-team votes and 74 second team votes for a mixed whole of 122 votes.
Inexperienced (58 first-team votes and 42 second-team votes) received 158 votes, whereas Japanese Convention trio Scottie Barnes, Cade Cunningham and Evan Mobley (200 votes) had been all unanimously awarded 100 first-team votes.
Orlando’s Franz Wagner was the opposite first-team choice, whereas Herbert Jones, Bones Hyland, Ayo Dosunmu and Chris Duarte joined Giddey within the reserves.
