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NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Philadelphia's Ben Simmons and Utah's Donovan Mitchell are unanimous selections to the NBA's All-Rookie team.
The two guards received all 100 first-place votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters. Both players helped their teams reach the second round of the playoffs.
Boston's Jayson Tatum also was selected Tuesday to the first team, falling one vote short of unanimous. Simmons, Mitchell and Tatum are the three finalists for the NBA's Rookie of the Year award.
Tatum, 20, averaged 13.9 points (47.5% FG, 43.4% 3-PT, 82.6% FT), 5.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 1.04 steals and 30.5 minutes in 80 games (all starts) this season. His scoring average was the highest by a Celtics rookie since Paul Pierce (16.5 ppg) in 1998-99.
Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma (93 first-team votes) and Chicago's Lauri Markkanen (76) rounded out the first team.
The second team was guards Dennis Smith Jr. of Dallas and Lonzo Ball of the Lakers, Atlanta forward John Collins, Sacramento guard Bogdan Bogdanovic and Phoenix forward Josh Jackson.
Associated Press
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