The NBA G League announced today that Mamadi Diakite was named First Team All-NBA G League, NBA G League All-Defensive Team and NBA G League All-Rookie Team and Tahjere McCall was named to the NBA G League All-Defensive Team. Diakite and McCall were selected by NBA G League head coaches and general managers whose teams participated in single-site play at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Diakite, a flex-assignment player from the Milwaukee Bucks, averaged 18.5 points, 10.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 2.1 blocks and 0.6 steals in 27.7 minutes per game. He also shot 58% from the field, 50% from three and 75% from the free-throw line and had nine double-doubles. Diakite finished third in voting for NBA G League Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McCall averaged 11.9 points, 7.4 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.5 blocks in 27.5 minutes per game. He finished second in voting for NBA G League Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ABOUT THE LAKELAND MAGIC<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lakeland Magic, based in Lakeland, FL, are the NBA G League affiliate of the Orlando Magic. One of 28 teams in the NBA G League, the Magic\u00a0recently won the\u00a02020-21 NBA G League Finals to finish as league champions. Since their inaugural season in Lakeland, the Magic have won more regular-season games than any other team in the NBA G League.\u00a0Season and group tickets for the 2021-22 season are available by calling 863-825-3263 or visiting LakelandMagic.com.\u00a0Stay up to date on all things Lakeland Magic by following @LakelandMagic on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NBA G League announced today that Mamadi Diakite was named First Team All-NBA G League, NBA G League All-Defensive Team and NBA G League All-Rookie Team and Tahjere McCall… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakeland-magic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}