HOME > Basketball

The 1st team history + the 5th team history! Congratulations to Amen, successfully joining the first defense lineup! The Rockets first player in the past 8 years

2:46am, 24 May 2025【Basketball】

22-year-old Rockets star Amen Thompson finally got his wish and was selected for the All-Defensive Team of the season. He was selected with the Warriors' Dream Chasing Green, Thunder's Doult, Cavaliers' Evan Mobley and Eats' Dyson Daniels. Amen Thompson is the youngest and most talented player among them.

And he was selected for the Best Defensive Team this time and set a number of Rockets records. We can see from the figure. According to statistics, after Amen was selected for the Best Defensive Team, he also became the first player to the Houston Rockets to be selected for the Best Defensive Team since the Rockets' main defender Patrick Beverly was selected for the First Defensive Team in the 2016-2017 season.

So, although the Rockets have a good record in the past 10 years, they have not many players on the defensive end that they can be favored by the league. Even though the Rockets were evenly matched with the Warriors, even if the Rockets had top defensive players like Ariza, PJ Tucker, and Bamott back then, they were not selected into the best defensive team in the end. The last time was 8 years ago, the Rockets were selected for the Best Defensive Team, and Harden's best partner Beverly at the time.

No Rockets player has been shortlisted for the best defensive team since then. And now Amen Thompson has risen rapidly and has become the only Rockets player in the defensive franchise.

Look at the second record. After Amen was shortlisted for a defensive team, he became the fifth player in the history of the Rockets to be selected for a defensive team. The top four are super center Olajuwon, Rodney McCree, Pippen and Beverly, with Amen being the fifth player. And he is also the youngest player in the history of the Rockets to be selected for the best defensive team. Amen Thompson is only 22 years and 113 days. And this is also Amen Thompson's second NBA season. He is only 22 years old. In other words, as long as Amen Thompson can develop normally and perform his own form normally in the future, he will definitely break the records in various Rockets' history.

Now that the Rockets have seen Amen Thompson's super brave performance, they should really think carefully about who the Rockets' core team building will be in the future? Is it Alperen Shinkyung, who is not too high in the inside and is not efficient, Jaylen Green, who plays invisible when the playoffs, or veteran Van Van Vreet, or Amen Thompson who is fast on the way?

In fact, Amen Thompson is already the only non-sale product among the Rockets in the eyes of many experts and media. Now that he has successfully entered the defensive team, Amen Thompson's net worth has doubled. He is still worthy of congratulations to become the first person in the Rockets to be the first team in the best defensive team in eight years.

Although the Rockets have many soldiers and many generals, they have 7 outstanding young players. Now, it is obvious that among these players, the one with the highest ceiling is neither Jaylen Green, nor Alperen Shinkin, known as Jokic Jr., but the young Amen Thompson. As long as Amen Thompson uses his mid-range shots and three-point shots to perfection in the offseason, he will have no shortcomings next season. As some celebrities say, once Amen Thompson practices three points, he will officially become the superstar in the league.