Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel Headline 2025-26 NBA All-Rookie Team, Full Voting Results

This season's NBA rookie class was loaded, and the top playmakers were honored Wednesday when the NBA announced its All-Rookie Teams for the 2025-26 campaign.

Unsurprisingly, Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg and runner-up Kon Knueppel headlined the teams, which were as follows:

All-Rookie First Team

• Cooper Flagg, Dallas Mavericks
• Kon Knueppel, Charlotte Hornets
• VJ Edgecombe, Philadelphia 76ers
• Dylan Harper, San Antonio Spurs
• Cedric Coward, Memphis Grizzlies

All-Rookie Second Team

• Ace Bailey, Utah Jazz
• Jeremiah Fears, New Orleans Pelicans
• Collin Murray-Boyles, Toronto Raptors
• Derik Queen, New Orleans Pelicans
• Maxime Raynaud, Sacramento Kings

Here's a look at the voting breakdown:

While Flagg ended up beating Knueppel in the race for the Rookie of the Year, the pair of former Duke Blue Devils teammates got to share this honor. That was fitting since the race for the coveted Rookie of the Year vote was so close.

Flagg ended up with 56 of the first-place votes to Knueppel's 44, underscoring just how talented they both were this season:

Ultimately, the history the Mavericks star made in his first season in the NBA won out. Flagg joined none other than Michael Jordan as the only rookies to lead their teams in points, rebounds, assists and steals for a single season since the 1973-74 campaign. 

That wasn't the only legend he was mentioned alongside as he surpassed LeBron James' single-game scoring record for an 18-year-old of 37 points when he poured in 42 points during a December game against the Utah Jazz.

As if that wasn't enough, Flagg became the youngest player in NBA history with a 50-point game when he scored 51 against the Orlando Magic in April. In all, he averaged 21.0 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game while shooting 46.8 percent from the field this season.

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Yet his Mavericks didn't enjoy nearly the amount of success as Knueppel's Charlotte Hornets.

The sharpshooter was a major part of Charlotte's second-half turnaround and helped lead it to a 44-38 record and spot in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament after it went 19-63 last season.

Nobody in the NBA made more three-pointers than Knueppel's 273, and he averaged 18.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 0.7 steals per game while shooting 42.5 percent from deep.

The play-in tournament appearance was impressive given Charlotte's struggles last season, but fellow All-Rookie selections VJ Edgecombe and Dylan Harper made far more noise in the postseason.

Edgecombe's Philadelphia 76ers reached the second round of the playoffs thanks to an impressive first-round win over the Boston Celtics, while Harper has been one of the most important players in the San Antonio Spurs' championship pursuit.

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Harper averaged 11.8 points, 3.9 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game while shooting 50.5 percent from the field during the regular season and has assumed even more responsibility in the playoffs while averaging 14.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.7 steals per game.

He notched a double-double of 24 points, 11 rebounds and six assists in a Game 1 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals and is seven wins away from adding a championship to a list of accomplishments that now includes an All-Rookie First-Team selection.