The NBA announced the All-NBA teams for the 2023-24 season today and Domantas Sabonis was named to the All-NBA Third Team for the second consecutive season. Sabonis received one 1st place vote, 16 2nd place votes and 51 3rd place votes to make the team. De’Aaron Fox was the only other Sacramento King to receive votes (one 2nd place vote and six 3rd place votes). Full voting and the rest of the teams can be found here.
A year after the Kings won many accolades, this is the first and only season reward for the Kings this year but it could not have gone to a more deserving player. Sabonis averaged 19.4 points, 13.7 rebounds (best in the league) and 8.2 assists per game (6th in the league). He finished as the league leader in both triple-doubles (26) and double-doubles (77) and set the post-merger NBA record for consecutive double-doubles at 61. He also played each and every game of the season and Play-In Tournament, a rare feat these days.
After not being voted an All-Star and Malik Monk not winning 6th man of the Year, I was fully prepared to see Domantas Sabonis snubbed from the All-NBA team as well, so I’m glad to see the voters at least got this right. Sabonis put up a historic season and it deserves to be recognized. With this selection, Sabonis joins Chris Webber (5), Mitch Richmond (5) and DeMarcus Cousins (2) as the only Kings players in the Sacramento-era to be named to multiple All-NBA teams. Given that this was just Domas’ second full year with the team, the best is hopefully yet to come.
Congratulations Domas!
