Sun's Jonquel Jones Only Unanimous Selection for 2021 All-WNBA First Team

The WNBA announced Friday that Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones was unanimously selected for the 2021 All-WNBA First Team.

Jones, who won the league's 2021 Most Valuable Player Award, was the only player placed on the first-team ballot by all 49 members of the voting panel.

Here's the full first team:

• G: Skylar Diggins-Smith (Phoenix Mercury)
• G: Jewell Loyd (Seattle Storm)
• F: Jonquel Jones (Sun)
• F: Breanna Stewart (Storm)
• C: Brittney Griner (Mercury)

And here's the All-WNBA Second Team:

• G: Arike Ogunbowale (Dallas Wings)
• G: Courtney Vandersloot (Chicago Sky)
• F: A'ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces)
• F: Tina Charles (Washington Mystics)
• C: Sylvia Fowles (Minnesota Lynx)

Jones, who opted out of the 2020 season because of the "unknown aspects" of COVID-19 at the time, returned to produce the best campaign of her five-year career.

The 27-year-old Bahamas native averaged 19.4 points, 11.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.3 blocks across 27 regular-season appearances. She shot 51.5 percent from the field and 80.2 percent from the free-throw line.

She also led the Sun to the best record in the WNBA at 26-6, including a terrific 15-1 mark at home, but Connecticut was eliminated by the Sky in the playoff semifinals.

In September, Jones told Alexa Philippou of the Hartford Courant she attributed her success to a refreshed mindset about basketball and life:

"At the end of the day, this is just a game. And while it makes me very proud to go out there and play my best and win for this organization, there's so many other things that people are going through that when you really think about this, it's just like, go out there and have fun. That's all you should be worried about."

Three members of the All-WNBA teams are playing in the 2021 Finals as Diggins-Smith and Griner lead the Mercury against Vandersloot and the Sky.

Vandersloot dished out 11 assists as Chicago won Sunday's Game 1, but Griner and Diggins-Smith combined for 42 points in Wednesday's Game 2 as Phoenix won in overtime to level the series.

Game 3 is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET Friday at Wintrust Arena in Chicago and will air on ESPN2.