The NBA has long moved towards position-less basketball. And it appears that the All-NBA teams could finally start following this trend. This was recently confirmed by the league commissioner Adam Silver.
The current voting process for All-NBA sees voters selecting two guards, two forwards, and one center for each team of the three teams. However, this process started showing some flaws lately, and they were on full display in 2021-22.
MVP finalists and The Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid missed on All-NBA First-Team this despite having more first-team votes and points than Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics), who ended up making the team. The reason why Embiid didn’t get in was that Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets already occupied his position as a center.
Speaking with the media ahead of the start of the NBA Finals on Thursday, Silver said that the All-NBA voting process could be tweaked to reflect the best 15 players in the league overall, regardless of the position.
“That is something we’re looking at,” said Silver. “It’s something that we will discuss with the players association because it has an impact on incentives and players contracts, and it has, you know, deep meaning for their legacy as well. So we will look at those things.”
