NEW YORK, April 29 – Memphis’ Pau Gasol and Shane Battier are joined by Golden State’s Jason Richardson, San Antonio’s Tony Parker and Utah’s Andrei Kirilenko on the 2001-02 got milk? NBA All-Rookie First Team.


Gasol and Battier teammed up to lead the Grizzlies and the got milk? All-Rookie First Team.
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Gasol, the got milk? NBA Rookie of the Year for the 2001-02 season, was the only unanimous selection -- receiving the maximum 56 points -- on the team that was announced today by the NBA. Battier, the sixth selection in last year’s NBA Draft, received 54 points, followed by Richardson with 53, Parker with 48 and Kirilenko with 45.

The voting panel consisted of the NBA’s 29 head coaches, who were asked to select five players for the first team and five players for the second team, regardless of position. Coaches were not permitted to vote for players from their own team. Two points were awarded for first team votes and one for second team votes.

The got milk? NBA All-Rookie Second Team consisted of Indiana’s Jamaal Tinsley (43 points), New Jersey’s Richard Jefferson (35 points), Houston’s Eddie Griffin (21 points), Detroit’s Zeljko Rebraca (15 points), Seattle’s Vladimir Radmanovic (11 points) and Phoenix’s Joe Johnson (11 points).

This year’s got milk? NBA All-Rookie team represents the largest contingent of international players (Gasol, Kirilenko, Parker, Radmanovic and Rebraca) in the team's history dating back to the 1962-63 season.

The got milk? Milk Mustache campaign is sponsoring the NBA Rookie platform to highlight the importance of milk’s bone-building calcium and eight other essential nutrients for active people, teen boys especially, who add about 15 percent of their height during these years. The platform includes the ‘got milk?’ Rookie Challenge, the ‘got milk?’ Rookie of the Month awards, the ‘got milk?’ Rookie of the Year award and the ‘got milk?’ All-Rookie Team.

Following are the results of the balloting for the 2001-02 got milk? NBA All-Rookie teams:

2001-02 got milk? NBA ALL-ROOKIE FIRST TEAM

PlayerTeamPoints1st Team Votes
Pau GasolMemphis5628
Shane BattierMemphis5426
Jason RichardsonGolden State5325
Tony ParkerSan Antonio4820
Andrei KirilenkoUtah4518

2001-02 got milk? NBA ALL-ROOKIE SECOND TEAM

PlayerTeamPoints1st Team Votes
Jamaal TinsleyIndiana4315
Richard JeffersonNew Jersey358
Eddie GriffinHouston212
Zeljko RebracaDetroit152
Vladimir RadmanovicSeattle111
Joe JohnsonPhoenix11-

Other players receiving votes, with point totals: Tyson Chandler, Chicago, 6; Trenton Hassell, Chicago, 6; Jarron Collins, Utah, 5; Gilbert Arenas, Golden State, 4; Speedy Claxton, Philadelphia, 4; Jason Collins, New Jersey, 4; Predrag Drobnjak, Seattle, 4; Brendan Haywood, Washington, 3; Kwame Brown, Washington, 2; Eddy Curry, Chicago, 2; Troy Murphy, Golden State, 1; Gerald Wallace, Sacramento, 1; Earl Watson, Seattle, 1.