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Posted: **Wed May 11, 2011 8:48 pm**

Unanimous pick Griffin leads T-Mobile All-Rookie team roster

T-Mobile NBA Rookie of the Year Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Washington Wizards' John Wall, the overall No. 1 selection in the 2010 NBA Draft, headline the 2010-11 T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie First Team, the NBA announced today. Griffin was the lone unanimous selection.

Joining Griffin (58 points) and Wall (57 points) on the T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie First Team are New York's Landry Fields (56 points), Sacramento's DeMarcus Cousins (54 points), and San Antonio's Gary Neal (44).

Griffin, who was selected first overall in the 2009 NBA Draft but missed the entire 2009-10 season due to injury (stress fracture, left knee), recorded a rookie-and team-leading 22.5 ppg (12th overall), 12.1 rpg (fourth overall) and 63 double-doubles (third overall). Griffin became the first rookie to average at least 20 points and 10 rebounds since Elton Brand (20.1 ppg, 10.0 rpg) in 1999-2000. A six-time T-Mobile Western Conference Rookie of the Month selection, Griffin became the first rookie to appear in an NBA All-Star Game since Yao Ming in 2003.

The T-Mobile NBA All-Rookie Second Team consists of Detroit's Greg Monroe (42 points), Minnesota's Wesley Johnson (26 points), the Clippers' Eric Bledsoe (19 points), Utah's Derrick Favors (18 points), and Indiana's Paul George (14 points).

The voting panel consisted of the NBA's 30 head coaches, who were asked to select five players for the first team and five players for the second team, regardless of position. Coaches were not permitted to vote for players on their own team. Two points were awarded for first team votes and one for second team votes.

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Blake received 29 first place votes for a total of 59 points.
Bledsoe received 19 second place votes for a total of 19 points.
Aminu received 3 second place votes for a total of 3 points.

Posted: **Thu May 12, 2011 9:07 pm**

I figured that Bledsoe would make the 2nd team. I really hope that he is able to improve for next season. Towards the all star break I was hoping that Aminu could make a rookie team, but as we all know he started to struggle. And it's a no brainer that Blake made the 1st team.

Posted: **Fri May 13, 2011 10:12 am**

nice for EBled. proud for him.

Posted: **Fri May 13, 2011 11:15 pm**

thanumba2clippersfan wrote:I figured that Bledsoe would make the 2nd team. I really hope that he is able to improve for next season. Towards the all star break I was hoping that Aminu could make a rookie team, but as we all know he started to struggle. And it's a no brainer that Blake made the 1st team.

Both will need to put in a lot of work over the summer. Bledsoe looked great in the last game and showed that he could really help us in the future if is able to contribute that way. I don't know if he's our future at pg, but even if he's not, he can still be a nice change of pace guard off the bench.

Aminu got less opportunities down the stretch, but I think that he really needs to figure out how he can help this team. What we want at SF and what he has been are 2 different things. I think he tried to be something that he's not (yet) and ended up lacking confidence. He needs to play to his strengths. He's shown flashes of brilliance, and can totally be an asset to this team if he can consistently utilize his strengths. Hopefully, his perimeter game will develop over time. Until then, he needs to attack and slash.

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