Camby, Bowen Headline NBA's All-Defensive Team
NBA Names First, Second All-Defensive Teams
POSTED: 3:43 pm EDT April 30, 2007
UPDATED: 4:05 pm EDT April 30, 2007
NEW YORK -- Denver's Marcus Camby, the reigning Defensive Player of the Year, and San Antonio's Bruce Bowen highlight the 2006-07 NBA All-Defensive teams.Camby is making his third appearance on the All-Defensive first team, while Bowen, the leading vote getter, was named to the All-Defensive squad for the seventh-straight season. Spurs' forward Tim Duncan, making his 10th appearance, joins Camby and Bowen on the first team, along with Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix's Raja Bell. Bowen received 42 points out of a possible 60, while Duncan finished six behind Bowen with 36 points. Camby picked up 34 points while Bryant had 32 and Bell finished with 25 points. The NBA All-Defensive second team consists of a pair of Chicago Bulls -- Ben Wallace and Kirk Hinrich -- New Jersey's Jason Kidd, Detroit's Tayshaun Prince and Minnesota's Kevin Garnett. The voting panel consisted of the league's 30 head coaches, who were asked to pick NBA All-Defensive first and second teams by position. The coaches were not permitted to vote for players from their own club.
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