After being named the G League’s Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year on Monday, Delaware Blue Coats forward Paul Reed – who is on a two-way contract with the Sixers – headlines the All-NBA G League First Team, as the league announced Tuesday in a press release.
Reed is joined on the All-NBAGL First Team by MVP runner-up Kevin Porter Jr. of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, as well as Oklahoma City Blue big man Moses Brown, Lakeland Magic forward Mamadi Diakite and Westchester Knicks guard Jared Harper. All of those players are currently on either standard NBA contracts or two-way deals.
That’s a common theme for this year’s All-NBAGL Teams. The majority of the 15 players named to the three squads are either currently under contract with NBA teams or have past NBA experience.
The complete list of the 2020-21 All-NBA G League teams, along with the All-Rookie and All-Defensive squads, is below. Players currently on NBA contracts are noted with an asterisk (*), while those on two-way contracts are noted with a caret (^).
All-NBAGL First Team:
- Paul Reed (Delaware Blue Coats) ^
- Kevin Porter Jr. (Rio Grande Valley Vipers) *
- Moses Brown (Oklahoma City Blue) ^
- Mamadi Diakite (Lakeland Magic) ^
- Jared Harper (Westchester Knicks) ^
All-NBAGL Second Team:
- Oshae Brissett (Fort Wayne Mad Ants)
- Henry Ellenson (Raptors 905)
- Malachi Flynn (Raptors 905) *
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Alize Johnson (Raptors 905) *
- Note: Johnson is currently on a 10-day contract.
- Brodric Thomas (Canton Charge) ^
All-NBAGL Third Team:
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Tyler Cook (Iowa Wolves) *
- Note: Cook is currently on a 10-day contract.
- Tre Jones (Austin Spurs) *
- Jordan Poole (Santa Cruz Warriors) *
- Robert Woodard II (Austin Spurs) *
- Jarrod Uthoff (Erie BayHawks)
NBAGL All-Rookie Team:
- Paul Reed (Delaware Blue Coats) ^
- Mamadi Diakite (Lakeland Magic) ^
- Malachi Flynn (Raptors 905) *
- Brodric Thomas (Canton Charge) ^
- KJ Martin (Rio Grande Valley Vipers) *
NBAGL All-Defensive Team:
- Paul Reed (Delaware Blue Coats) ^
- Moses Brown (Oklahoma City Blue) ^
- Mamadi Diakite (Lakeland Magic) ^
- Tahjere McCall (Lakeland Magic)
- Gary Payton II (Raptors 905)
Of the 18 players who earned a spot on one of the G League’s All-NBAGL, All-Rookie or All-Defensive teams this year, only four – Brissett, Uthoff, McCall and Payton – haven’t been on some form of standard, two-way or 10-day NBA contract since the ’20-21 season began. All four of them have previous NBA experience.
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