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Millsap second team all-rookie

Published: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 12:17 a.m. MDT
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NEW YORK — Portland guard Brandon Roy, the NBA Rookie of the Year, was a unanimous choice Tuesday for the league's all-rookie team. Utah's Paul Millsap was named to the second team.

Roy led the first team with 58 points, followed by Toronto's Andrea Bargnani (57), Minnesota's Randy Foye (48), Memphis' Rudy Gay (39) and Toronto's Jorge Garbajosa (37) and Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge (37) in voting by the league's head coaches.

Joining Millsap on the second team was Charlotte's Adam Morrison, Chicago's Tyrus Thomas and Minnesota's Craig Smith. Boston's Rajon Rondo, Charlotte's Walter Hermann and New Jersey's Marcus Williams were tied for the final spot on the squad.

Roy led all rookies with averages of 16.8 points, 4.0 assists and 35.4 minutes in 57 games. He scored at least 20 points 16 times, despite a heel problem that caused him to miss 20 games early in the season.

Millsap played in all 82 of the Jazz's regular season games and averaged 6.8 points, 5.2 rebounds in 18 minutes per game. he became the seventh rookie in Jazz history to appear in all 82 games. His 183 offensive rebounds rank second in the Jazz rookie record books, while his field goal percentage of .525 (209-398) is the third highest ever by a Jazz rookie.

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Bargnani, the first pick in the 2006 draft, was third among rookies with 11.6 points a game. Foye averaged 10.1 points and 2.7 rebounds in 82 games with the Timberwolves, while Garbajosa finished fifth among rookies in rebounding. Aldridge led all rookies in blocks (1.16 a game), had six double-doubles and was fourth in rebounding.

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