Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young has been selected to the NBA Cup All-Tournament Team after leading his team to the East Semifinals. Young averaged 24.2 points, 10.8 assists, 3.6 rebounds, and 1.0 steals in five games during the tournament.
After helping lead the Atlanta Hawks to the Emirates NBA Cup Semifinals, Trae Young has been named to the NBA Cup All-Tournament Team .Young, selected by a media panel, joins Giannis Antetokounmpo , Shai Gilgeous-Alexander , Damian Lillard and Alperen Sengun on this season’s All-Tournament Team .
Through 26 games played so far this season, Young has handed out an NBA-best 314 total assists, on pace to lead the league in total assists for the third time in his career. The 6-1 guard is averaging 12.1 assists per game, on pace to become the first player since John Stockton in 1994-95 to average at least 12.0 assists per contest.
• Young is on pace to lead the league in total assists for the third time in his career , and owns 314 total assists this season, 83 more than the next-closest player. • In an NBA Cup quarterfinal win over the New York Knicks on Dec. 11, Young recorded his 300th assist of the season. The seventh-year guard, who entered his 25th game of the season with 502 total points, became just the fourth player in NBA history to tally 500+ points and 300+ assists through his first 25 games of a season.
• The 6’9 forward is on pace to become the fifth-youngest player in NBA history to finish a season averaging at least 15.0 points, 10.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists, joining Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall-of-Famer Oscar Robertson , three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and three-time NBA All-Star Bam Adebayo.
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