Harrison Barnes Named to 2012-13 NBA All-Rookie First Team

Seventh Overall Pick in 2012 NBA Draft Averaged 9.2 Points, 4.1 Rebounds And 1.2 Assists In 81 Games This Season

Golden State Warriors forward Harrison Barnes has been named to the 2012-13 NBA All-Rookie First Team, the NBA announced today.

Barnes, 20, averaged 9.2 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 25.8 minutes over 81 games during his rookie NBA season in 2012-13. Among rookie leaders, he ranked fifth in scoring, 10th in rebounding, 10th in field goal percentage (.439) and seventh in three-point percentage (.359). The 6'8" forward started all 81 games in which he appeared, trailing only NBA Rookie of the Year Damian Lillard (82) in number of games started by a rookie this season.

In the 2013 NBA Playoffs, Barnes is currently averaging 15.9 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists in 39.1 minutes in 10 games. Over the first four games of the team's current Conference Semifinals series against San Antonio, the Ames, IA, native is averaging 17.5 points, 8.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 44.5 minutes per contest, including a career-high (playoff or regular season) 26 points and 10 rebounds in the Warriors 97-87 overtime victory over the Spurs in Game 4 on Sunday, May 12. The seventh overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, Barnes is just the second player in the last nine seasons to earn First Team All-Rookie honors and advance to the Conference Semifinals in the same season, joining San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard, who did so in 2011-12.

This marks the third time in the last four seasons that the Warriors have had a First Team All-Rookie selection, as Barnes follows in the footsteps of Stephen Curry (2009-10) and Klay Thompson (2011-12). Including starting center Andrew Bogut (2005-06), four of Golden State's current starting five were named First Team All-Rookie.

Joining Barnes on the NBA All-Rookie First Team are Portland's Lillard, Washington's Bradley Beal, New Orleans' Anthony Davis and Cleveland's Dion Waiters.

Warriors rookies Festus Ezeli and Draymond Green both received one Second Team vote each.

The voting panel consisted of the NBA's 30 head coaches, who were asked to select five players for the first team and five players for the second team, regardless of position. Coaches were not permitted to vote for players on their own team. Two points were awarded for first team votes and one for second team votes.

Below are the results of the balloting for the 2012-13 NBA All-Rookie teams. The balloting was tabulated by the independent accounting firm of Ernst & Young LLP.

2012-13 NBA All-Rookie First Team Player Team First (2 pt) Second (1 pt) Total Damian Lillard Portland 29 - 58 Bradley Beal Washington 28 1 57 Anthony Davis New Orleans 28 1 57 Dion Waiters Cleveland 21 8 50 Harrison Barnes Golden State 18 11 47

2012-13

NBA All-Rookie Second Team Player Team First

(2 pt) Second

(1 pt) Total Andre Drummond Detroit 10 15 35 Jonas Valanciunas Toronto 6 19 31 Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Charlotte 3 23 29 Kyle Singler Detroit 1 15 17 Tyler Zeller Cleveland 3 9 15

Other players receiving votes, with point totals (first place votes

in parentheses): Maurice Harkless, Orlando, 14 (1); Alexey Shved,

Minnesota, 14 (1); Chris Copeland, New York, 9 (1); Brian Roberts, New Orleans,

5; Andrew Nicholson, Orlando, 4; Jae Crowder, Dallas, 1; Festus Ezeli, Golden

State, 1; Draymond Green, Golden State, 1; John Jenkins, Atlanta, 1; Terrence

Jones, Houston, 1; Pablo Prigioni, New York, 1; Terrence Ross, Toronto, 1;

Jeff Taylor, Charlotte, 1.