Jamal Murray earns best honor of his NBA career, Nikola Jokic scores another award

For the second time in Denver Nuggets history two teammates are being honored with All-NBA Teams in the same season, as Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray were named to the elite grouping on Sunday by the league.

Jokic made his eighth-straight All-NBA team, the sixth time he’s been selected to the first team. Jokic and David Thompson (in 1977 and 1978) are the lone Nuggets to ever be selected to All-NBA First Team.

Murray was named to the All-NBA Third Team. It’s the second time in his career he’s earned a postseason award, joining his All-Rookie Second Team nod from 2016-17. It puts a cherry on top of his All-Star year, which featured the best regular season performance of his career.

For Murray, the honor is the culmination of a years-long pursuit. After being named an All-Star for the first time in February, the Canadian guard made no secret of what was next on his list.

“I want to be All-NBA. I feel like that’s a bigger award,” Murray said following his All-Star nod. “I just have to stay hungry.”

He kept eating. Murray put together the best season of his decade in the league, averaging a career-best 25.4 points, career-high 7.1 assists and 4.4 rebounds while shooting a career-best 43.5% from beyond the arc across 75 games. His 57.3% effective field goal percentage and 21.8 PER both set new career highs as well, and he comfortably cleared the 65-game minimum required for All-NBA eligibility under the league’s collective bargaining agreement.

That CBA change, which went into effect in 2024, also made All-NBA selections position-less — a significant factor for a guard in a league loaded with elite backcourt talent. Rather than competing against a small handful of guard slots, Murray was judged among the 15 best players in the league, full stop.

After his season-high 53-point eruption in March, one of several signature performances that had his head coach campaigning on his behalf down the stretch.

“Another special night for Jamal,” Nuggets coach David Adelman said after that game. “He’s had so many of these. I really hope All-NBA is something that is obvious and not an argument.”

The first-year Nuggets coach echoed that sentiment again in April: “I really hope All-NBA is something that is obvious and not an argument.”

As for Jokic, his run has been remarkable. The Serbian superstar finished as the MVP runner-up after another otherworldly campaign in which he led the league in both rebounding and assists, averaging 27.7 points, 12.9 rebounds and 10.7 assists per game while shooting 56.9% from the field and a career-best 38.0% from three across 65 games.

The spotlight on Sunday, like most things with this duo, is shared. The two-man game that delivered the Nuggets their first championship in 2023 now has a new joint accolade — and Murray, at long last, has the honor he had been chasing.

The legendary duo joins Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups, who both were selected to the All-NBA Second Team in 2008-09.

A global media panel of 100 voters selected the 2025-26 Kia All-NBA Team.

The complete voting results ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/7NbX05bwr2

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) May 24, 2026

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