NBA All-Defensive Teams 2015-16: Voting Breakdown, Comments, Reaction

As the playoffs generate all the headlines, the NBA briefly shifted its focus off the court to announce the All-Defensive teams, with San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard being the only unanimous choice.

Sports Illustrated's NBA Twitter account provided a breakdown of the voting:

The 2015-16 first-team defense is nearly identical to last year's group. The one change is Boston Celtics guard Avery Bradley in for the Memphis Grizzlies' Tony Allen.

Advanced metrics show some disparity in where players ended up placing on the two teams. The Miami Heat's Hassan Whiteside led the NBA with a 94.5 defensive rating, and the Atlanta Hawks' Paul Millsap led the league with six defensive win shares, per Basketball-Reference.com.

Whiteside and Millsap wound up being named to the second team, though Whiteside was nearly neck-and-neck with Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan in first-place votes and total voting.

Not surprisingly, Leonard and the Golden State Warriors' Draymond Green were the top two vote-getters. They have finished first and second in Defensive Player of the Year voting in each of the last two years, with Leonard coming out on top both times.

ESPN's Tom Haberstroh used some metrics from Synergy Sports Tech to show how dominant Leonard and Green were on defense in 2015-16:

Green (26) and Leonard (24) are young and talented enough to be first-team mainstays for years to come.