The Spurs held their opponents to a league-best 92.9 points a game over the 2015-16 season.
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San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard was the lone unanimous selection to the NBA’s All-Defensive First Team, the league announced on Wednesday via official release.
He received all 130 First Team votes from a panel of sportswriters across North America.
The rest of the First Team was rounded out by center DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers, his teammate Chris Paul, and shooting guard Avery Bradley of the Boston Celtics. Elite per-minute defenders according to Real Plus-Minus, like Andrew Bogut, Tim Duncan, or Cole Aldrich, were given less votes than the larger minutes load handled by the players who were voted on to the teams.
It’s the eighth time Paul has earned All-Defensive honors and his fifth straight year on the First Team.
Leonard, the back-to-back NBA Defensive Player of the Year, averaged almost two steals and one block per game this season.
Green joined former center Nate Thurmond as the only Warriors players to be named to the all-defensive first unit on multiple occasions, and became the first Golden State player to do so in back-to-back years.
This season Butler had 5.6 rebounds a contest while also coming up with 1.9 steals per game-a career high.
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Named to the second team were Atlanta Hawks forward Paul Millsap, Indiana Pacers forward Paul George, Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside, Memphis Grizzlies guard Tony Allen and Chicago Bulls guard Jimmy Butler.
