A blue-ribbon panel of 100 NBA journos voted for the 2024-2025 All-Rookie teams. Eight of the voters cast their lots with UVA Basketball alum Ryan Dunn.
Yes, I’m reaching here for a story.
But hey, Dunn got eight more votes than you or I did, so he has that going for him.
Dunn, a 6’8” forward, received one first-team vote and seven second-team votes, which placed him in fifth place in the others receiving votes category.
You could say this would qualify him as having been voted to the All-Rookie third team.
You shouldn’t, but you could.
Dunn put up modest numbers in his rookie season with the Phoenix Suns, who took Dunn in the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft, averaging 6.9 points and 3.6 rebounds in 19.1 minutes per game, shooting 43.0 percent from the field and 31.1 percent from three.
Dunn started 44 games for the Suns, who finished with a 36-46 record, missing the playoffs by three games.
His productivity came in spurts – he averaged 11.6 points and 5.7 rebounds per game over an 11-game stretch between Dec. 28 and Jan. 18, before being glued to the bench for the next two months, before getting back into the starting lineup on March 14 and starting the final 16 games of the season, in which he averaged 11.1 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.
Pretty consistent numbers there from our guy, when he got minutes.
Dunn also made a surprise appearance in the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 16, scoring eight points on 3-of-5 shooting in 10 minutes in his Rising Star Challenge team’s 42-35 loss to Shaq’s OGs in the inaugural four-man All-Star Game Tournament.
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