It's one thing to fill out an NBA awards ballot, real or imagined. It's another thing entirely to predict how all the media folks tabbed to do so actually completed theirs.
This season was a particularly tricky one for nailing down the league's All-NBA teams.
If Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul are all locks at guard, who among them gets bumped to the second team? And who nabs the other three backcourt spots? Klay Thompson, Kyle Lowry and James Harden are among those who deserve consideration, but not all the worthy applicants can cram onto a single ballot.
The same goes at forward, where LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and Draymond Green can't all be first-teamers.
Good luck sorting out center, too. None of the main candidates grades out as a bona fide first-teamer, but who among them doesn't get a spot at all?
To better predict who will wind up where when the league announces the three All-NBA teams, we surveyed a swath of ballots submitted to the Association that have since been posted to various outlets online. The trends we found helped us objectively put together our selections.
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