Canada's Zach Edey named to NBA All-Rookie 1st team, joining Grizzlies teammate

The Associated Press

· Posted: May 20, 2025 4:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Stephon Castle gets 1 much accolade from his rookie season: The San Antonio defender was the lone unanimous first-team enactment connected the All-Rookie team.

Castle, the league's rookie of the year, was the lone subordinate to get archetypal squad votes from each 100 members of the planetary sheet of sportswriters and broadcasters who formed ballots to determine astir of the NBA's yearly awards.

He was joined connected the archetypal squad by Atlanta's Zaccharie Risacher (who was 1 ballot distant from unanimous status), Memphis teammates Jaylen Wells and Zach Edey of Toronto, and Washington's Alex Sarr.

It's the archetypal clip a squad has had aggregate players named to the All-Rookie archetypal squad since the Grizzlies did it successful 2019-20 with Brandon Clarke and Ja Morant.

The second-team selections were Miami's Kel'el Ware, Chicago's Matas Buzelis, New Orleans' Yves Missi, Portland's Donovan Clingan and Washington's Bub Carrington.

Edey (73 first-team votes, 27 second-team votes) joined Castle and Risacher arsenic the lone players to look determination connected each 100 ballots. Wells was connected 99 ballots, Sarr was connected 96 and Ware was connected 94.

Utah's Isaiah Collier was 1 constituent shy of tying Carrington for the last spot connected the 2nd team.

Others receiving votes:

• Utah's Kyle Filipowski
• Detroit's Ron Holland II
• Los Angeles Lakers' Dalton Knecht
• Phoenix's Ryan Dunn
• Philadelphia's Jared McCain
• Golden State's Quinten Post
• Toronto's Jamal Shead
• Orlando's Tristan da Silva
• Minnesota's Rob Dillingham
• Philadelphia's Justin Edwards
• Washington's Kyshawn George
• Houston's Reed Sheppard