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Jerry Zgoda missed the entire Kevin Garnett era, but he's back covering the Timberwolves after working the beat for their first four seasons two decades ago. In between, he covered a bit of everything: Gopher men's and women's basketball and NCAA athletics, golf, outdoor recreation, sports media and a little Vikings and Twins.
Rubio named to NBA all-rookie first team
Posted by: Kent Youngblood under Rookies, Wolves news Updated: May 22, 2012 - 2:32 PM
Greetings.
It comes as no surprise but Wolves guard Ricky Rubio, who finished second to Kyrie Irving for rookie of the year, was named to the NBA's all-rookie first team today. He joins Irving (Cleveland), Kenneth Faried (Denver), Klay Thompson (Golden State), Iman Shumpert (New York), Kawhi Leonard (San Antonio) and Brandon Knight (Detroit) on the first team. Yes, that is seven players. But Shumpert, Leonard and Knight tied in the voting totals.
Wolves forward Derrick Williams joined Chandler Parsons (Houston), Isaiah Thomas (Sacramento), MarShon Brooks (New Jersey) and Tristan Thompson (Cleveland) on the second team.
The league's 30 head coaches were asked to select five players for the first team and five for the second team, regardless of position. Coaches were not allowed to vote for players on their own team. Two points went to first-team votes, one point for second-team votes.
Rubio got 21 first-team votes, second only to Irving's 29, and seven second-team votes. Williams got two first-place votes and 12 second-team votes.
Rubio joins Pooh Richardson, Christian Laettner, Isaiah Rider, Stephon Marbury, Wally Szczerbiak and Randy Foye as Wolves rookies to earn first-team all-rookie honors. Williams joins Felton Spencer, Kevin Garnett, Craig Smith, Kevin Love, Jonny Flynn and Wes Johnson as Wolves all-rookie second teamers.
Below are the 2011-12 NBA All-Rookie First and Second Teams:
2011-12 NBA ALL-ROOKIE FIRST TEAM
Player Team First (2 pt) Second (1 Pt) Total
Kyrie Irving Cleveland 29 - 58
Ricky Rubio Minnesota 21 7 49
Kenneth Faried Denver 19 8 46
Klay Thompson Golden State 16 11 43
Iman Shumpert New York 15 10 40
Kawhi Leonard San Antonio 14 12 40
Brandon Knight Detroit 13 14 40
2011-12 NBA ALL-ROOKIE SECOND TEAM
Player Team First (2 pt) Second (1 Pt) Total
Chandler Parsons Houston 10 13 33
Isaiah Thomas Sacramento 5 17 27
MarShon Brooks New Jersey 3 12 18
Derrick Williams Minnesota 2 12 16
Tristan Thompson Cleveland 2 12 16
Kahn finishes 10th in NBA Executive of the Year voting
Posted by: Kent Youngblood under Wolves news Updated: May 16, 2012 - 1:21 PMGreetings.
Youngblood here, with Jerry on vacation.
The NBA just released the voting for the NBA's Executive of the Year, and David Kahn, the Wolves' president of basketball operations, finished tenth. He got one second-place vote and one third-place vote.
The award went to Larry Bird, the Indiana Pacers president of basketball operations. Bird ran a Pacers team that went 42-24 and earned the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference. Among the moves Bird made? He hired Frank Vogel as permanent head coach, signed David West in December and traded for Lou Amundson and Leandro Barbosa. In thee Pacers' rotation are players like Paul George, Tyler Hansbrough and Roy Hibbert, all Bird draft picks.
Bird won three MVP awards as a player and was voted coach of the year for the 1997-98 season. He is the first in league history to win all three awards.
The voting is among the league's team executives. First-place votes were worth five points, second-place three points and third place one point.
Here is the voting:
2011-12 NBA EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR VOTING RESULTS
Rookie, Team 1st 2nd 3rd Total
Larry Bird, Indiana 12 8 4 88
R.C. Buford, San Antonio 8 4 4 56
Neil Olshey, L.A. Clippers 6 7 4 55
Gar Forman, Chicago 2 2 - 16
Kevin O’Connor, Utah - 2 4 10
Glen Grunwald, New York - 2 2 8
Pat Riley, Miami 1 - 2 7
Sam Presti, Oklahoma City 1 - - 5
Chris Wallace, Memphis - 1 2 5
David Kahn, Minnesota - 1 1 4
Rod Thorn, Philadelphia - 1 - 3
Dell Demps, New Orleans - 1 - 3
Rick Sund, Atlanta - 1 - 3
Danny Ainge, Boston - - 1 1
John Hammond, Milwaukee - - 1 1
Lon Babby, Phoenix - - 1 1
Mitch Kupchak, L.A. Lakers - - 1 1
Otis Smith, Orlando - - 1 1
Masai Ujiri, Denver - - 1 1
ALL-TIME NBA EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS
1972-73 Joe Axelson, K.C./Omaha
1973-74 Eddie Donovan, Buffalo
1974-75 Dick Vertlieb, Golden State
1975-76 Jerry Colangelo, Phoenix
1976-77 Ray Patterson, Houston
1977-78 Angelo Drossos, San Antonio
1978-79 Bob Ferry, Washington
1979-80 Red Auerbach, Boston
1980-81 Jerry Colangelo, Phoenix
1981-82 Bob Ferry, Washington
1982-83 Zollie Volchok, Seattle
1983-84 Frank Layden, Utah
1984-85 Vince Boryla, Denver
1985-86 Stan Kasten, Atlanta
1986-87 Stan Kasten, Atlanta
1987-88 Jerry Krause, Chicago
1988-89 Jerry Colangelo, Phoenix
1989-90 Bob Bass, San Antonio
1990-91 Bucky Buckwalter, Portland
1991-92 Wayne Embry, Cleveland
1992-93 Jerry Colangelo, Phoenix
1993-94 Bob Whitsitt, Seattle
1994-95 Jerry West, Los Angeles Lakers
1995-96 Jerry Krause, Chicago
1996-97 Bob Bass, Charlotte
1997-98 Wayne Embry, Cleveland
1998-99 Geoff Petrie, Sacramento
1999-00 John Gabriel, Orlando
2000-01 Geoff Petrie, Sacramento
2001-02 Rod Thorn, New Jersey
2002-03 Joe Dumars, Detroit
2003-04 Jerry West, Memphis
2004-05 Bryan Colangelo, Phoenix
2005-06 Elgin Baylor, Los Angeles Clippers
2006-07 Bryan Colangelo, Toronto
2007-08 Danny Ainge, Boston
2008-09 Mark Warkentien, Denver
2009-10 John Hammond, Milwaukee
2010-11 Gar Forman, Chicago
Pat Riley, Miami
2011-12 Larry Bird, Indiana
Pekovic has ankle surgery
Posted by: Chris Miller under Wolves injury report Updated: May 15, 2012 - 10:47 AMWolves center Nikola Pekovic had surgery today to remove bone spurs from his right ankle. The team said the surgery was successful.
The operation was performed by Dr. Martin O'Malley at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
Pekovic missed eight games last season because of ankle issues. He averaged career highs in points (13.9) and rebounds (7.4) and was second in the NBA with a .564 field goal percentage.
Pekovic was third in the league's Most Improved Player voting.
Rubio finishes second to Cleveland's Kyrie Irving in Rookie Of the Year balloting
Posted by: Jerry Zgoda under Wolves players, Rookies, Wolves news Updated: May 15, 2012 - 11:40 AMTimberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio finished a distant second to Cleveland's Kyrie Irving in the NBA's Rookie of the Year balloting, announced by the league today.
Irving received 117 of 120 total first-place votes for a season when he ranked first among rookies in scoring (18.5 ppg), field-goal percentage (.469), free-throw percentage (.872) and second in assists (5.4 to Rubio's 8.7) and three-point percentage (.399).
Rubio received 49 second-place and 23 third-place votes and finished with 170 points, far behind Irving's 592, despite not playing the season's final six weeks because of those torn knee ligaments.
Denver's Kenneth Faried finished third, San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard was fourth and New York's Iman Shumpert was fifth.
Faried, Leonard and Shumpert each received one of the other three first-place votes that Irving didn't get.
Sacramento's Isaiah Thomas, the last player taken in last summer's draft, finished seventh when you could have made a case that he was the second best rookie all season behind Irving.
Irving is the Cavaliers' first winner since some guy named LeBron won the award in 2004.
Today was the last of the league's major individual award winners announced in a season when James again won MVP, San Antonio's Gregg Popovich was named Coach of the Year, Oklahoma City's James Harden was Sixth Man, Orlando's Ryan Anderson was Most Improved and New York's Tyson Chandler was named Defensive Player of the Year.
Irving, the No. 1 pick in last summer's draft, gets the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy is named in honor of Eddie Gottlieb, one of the NBA’s founders who coached the Philadelphia Warriors to the NBA championship in 1946-47.
Catching up with Ricky
Posted by: Kent Youngblood under Wolves players Updated: May 14, 2012 - 3:09 PMGreetings.
If you're not following @RickyRubio9 on Twitter, you might have missed his tweet from this afternoon, in which he posts a link to some recent video shorts of him, in a chair, making some incredible shots:
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