NEW YORK, April 29 – Memphis’ Pau Gasol and Shane Battier are joined by Golden State’s Jason Richardson, San Antonio’s Tony Parker and Utah’s Andrei Kirilenko on the 2001-02 got milk? NBA All-Rookie First Team. Gasol and Battier teammed up to lead the Grizzlies and the got milk? All-Rookie First Team. Fernando Medina/NBAE/Getty Images Gasol, the got milk? NBA Rookie of the Year for the 2001-02 season, was the only unanimous selection -- receiving the maximum 56 points -- on the team that was announced today by the NBA. Battier, the sixth selection in last year’s NBA Draft, received 54 points, followed by Richardson with 53, Parker with 48 and Kirilenko with 45. The voting panel consisted of the NBA’s 29 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 from their own team. Two points were awarded for first team votes and one for second team votes. The got milk? NBA All-Rookie Second Team consisted of Indiana’s Jamaal Tinsley (43 points), New Jersey’s Richard Jefferson (35 points), Houston’s Eddie Griffin (21 points), Detroit’s Zeljko Rebraca (15 points), Seattle’s Vladimir Radmanovic (11 points) and Phoenix’s Joe Johnson (11 points). This year’s got milk? NBA All-Rookie team represents the largest contingent of international players (Gasol, Kirilenko, Parker, Radmanovic and Rebraca) in the team's history dating back to the 1962-63 season. The got milk? Milk Mustache campaign is sponsoring the NBA Rookie platform to highlight the importance of milk’s bone-building calcium and eight other essential nutrients for active people, teen boys especially, who add about 15 percent of their height during these years. The platform includes the ‘got milk?’ Rookie Challenge, the ‘got milk?’ Rookie of the Month awards, the ‘got milk?’ Rookie of the Year award and the ‘got milk?’ All-Rookie Team. Following are the results of the balloting for the 2001-02 got milk? NBA All-Rookie teams: 2001-02 got milk? NBA ALL-ROOKIE FIRST TEAM Player Team Points 1st Team Votes Pau Gasol Memphis 56 28 Shane Battier Memphis 54 26 Jason Richardson Golden State 53 25 Tony Parker San Antonio 48 20 Andrei Kirilenko Utah 45 18 2001-02 got milk? NBA ALL-ROOKIE SECOND TEAM Player Team Points 1st Team Votes Jamaal Tinsley Indiana 43 15 Richard Jefferson New Jersey 35 8 Eddie Griffin Houston 21 2 Zeljko Rebraca Detroit 15 2 Vladimir Radmanovic Seattle 11 1 Joe Johnson Phoenix 11 - Other players receiving votes, with point totals: Tyson Chandler, Chicago, 6; Trenton Hassell, Chicago, 6; Jarron Collins, Utah, 5; Gilbert Arenas, Golden State, 4; Speedy Claxton, Philadelphia, 4; Jason Collins, New Jersey, 4; Predrag Drobnjak, Seattle, 4; Brendan Haywood, Washington, 3; Kwame Brown, Washington, 2; Eddy Curry, Chicago, 2; Troy Murphy, Golden State, 1; Gerald Wallace, Sacramento, 1; Earl Watson, Seattle, 1.
Jamal Tinsley is a big baby... did you see him crying when he sprained his knee? not a bad talent but Parkers ceiling is higher
MAybe so but they are point guards and Tinsley averaged twice as many assists...not to mention he had one or 2 HUGE triple doubles and i beliebe he had 1 or 2 20 assist games...Tony Parker isn;t in the same class as Tinsley...at least not based on this past year
I don't think Its a disapointment at all. Griffin certainly wasn't better than Kirilenko, Gasol, or Battier. I am glad he got a little recognition. He deserved something for his play. Give him another season, He will be better than 8-9 of those rookies on that list if not all of them. That being said - Tinsley should have made it over Parker.
He's right about where he should be, given the performance he put in. I'm a little disappointed that he let Richard Jefferson get ahead of him. But, he has years to exact revenge.
Griffin had one stellar month... and the rest of the year was uneventful. I'm surprised he even made second team, given the lack of media/hype for the Rockets as they tanked.
Yeah, Griffin didn't play well for the most part. At the end of the year, he got his minutes, but continuously had poor shooting games. I do think, though, that next year he will be 2nd best on the whole list at least.
did any of you watch that show 'rookies'? it was about this years rookies and griffin wasnt even mentioned at all. im pretty happy he got to second team.
I take it that you don't watch the Spurs much... Their offense revolves around dumping the ball into Duncan, which means Parker will not get many assists off of that. It's the same reason why the Rockets during the Olajuwon era, never really had a PG who racked up a lot of dishes.
It won't matter what Richard Jefferson does in his career cause I'm confident Eddie will be 5X better. C'mon, Eddie!
As a rookie, one should not do better simply because one starts. If that's the case, I'd question the work ethic. Any time is precious if you want to show what you can do. Work your way into the lineup. I guess Eddie will do that, but for a guy who is hyped by many as a superstar-in-the-making, I would think your internal drive to succeed is important, whether you're a starter or not.
Rocket104-Not necessarily. Griffin has always been the star of his team. He's never been the "energizer" type. His game simply suits the starting lineup better-he's in the game as it begins to flow, rather than jumping in in the middle. ---- Look at those votes this way-Griff. was picked 7th overall, and ranked 8th in the voting. Considering he had just one year of college, and was mainly a "potential" pick, I think he may be a little ahead of where he should be.
Not necessarily, yes. But on this team, I would think it's definitely the case. Especially with Rudy T as the coach. I don't think Eddie will simply be anointed into the starting lineup with him running the team and having the players he does (Rice, Taylor, etc.). I'm not saying he has to be an energizer, but if you're out on the floor and show you're clearly at a higher level than everyone else (granted, you're right about him being a 'potential' pick so he needs time), then you will definitely get your chance. I think (?) we all knew that this is a pick that will pan out over a few years and not return immediate results on what was supposed to be a fringe playoff team.
Watch in time Ed Griffin is going to be a dominant player. I just hope that the Rockets do every thing to get woods. Can you imagine Fracis, Cat, Woods, Griff and Cato in one line up. The only thing that I fear is that Cat and Cato will be right about 30 in two years.
For the sake of this franchise he better be. I just wish some of these so called power forwards would look at mailman earlier in his career how he constantly attacked the basket instead of settling for these long jumpers. I really hope he stops being versitile and just becomes a dominant player at a couple of aspect of the game. I think thats mostly Garnetts problem is that he lacks strength and can't take contact and finish plays in the fourth. Eddie with his frame needs to be around 245-250 of functional strength, not flab. Rasheed, has the same problem holding his spots in the fourth qt and tend to float and shoot jumpers. I just hope Eddie becomes more of a bull than a butterfly
