Victor Wembanyama and Chet Holmgren headline the NBA All-Rookie team

NEW YORK (AP) — San Antonio's Victor Wembanyama has been unanimously selected to the NBA's All-Rookie team this season, the league announced Monday.

That was no surprise considering Wembanyama was unanimously voted Rookie of the Year by the same group of 99 voters who cast their votes for the league's awards this season.

Wembanyama was joined on the first team by Oklahoma City's Chet Holmgren, Charlotte's Brandon Miller, Miami's Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Golden State's Brandin Podziemski.

Holmgren – Wembanyama's runner-up in the rookie of the year race – was also unanimously voted into the first team.

Miller, Jaquez and Podziemski placed third, fourth and fifth in the Rookie of the Year voting announced earlier this month. That was also the order in which they finished the All-Rookie Team voting, with Jaquez joining Wembanyama and Holmgren as the only players to appear on all 99 ballots.

Dereck Lively II of Dallas was a second-team All-Rookie selection along with Amen Thompson of Houston, Keyonte George of Utah, Cason Wallace of Oklahoma City and GG Jackson II of Memphis. Jackson finished in last place by one vote over Golden State's Trayce Jackson-Davis.

The All-Defensive team selections will be announced on Tuesday, and the All-NBA team will be announced on Wednesday. Wembanyama is likely a first-team All-Defense player — he was No. 2 in the Defensive Player of the Year race ahead of Minnesota's Rudy Gobert — and was certainly considered for All-NBA as well.

If Wembanyama makes the All-Defense or All-NBA team or both, he would be the first rookie to do so since two other San Antonio centers, like him, were No. 1 draft picks in total, including Tim Duncan in 1998 and David Robinson in 1990.

Only five rookies have made All-Defense: Duncan, Robinson, Washington's Manute Bol (1986), Houston's Hakeem Olajuwon (1985) and Milwaukee's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1970).

And if Wembanyama makes the All-NBA, he would be the 22nd rookie in NBA history to do so. Of those, only four have done it in the last 45 seasons: Duncan, Robinson, Chicago's Michael Jordan (1985) and Boston's Larry Bird (1980).

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