Stephon Castle’s 2025-26 stats: Fans shocked after Spurs guard gets All-NBA votes originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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The All-NBA teams for the 2025-26 season were revealed Sunday night, and many typically look for voting disparities among players who made each team when the results come out.
What people might not look at is which players received votes who weren’t named to one of the three All-NBA teams. Those who didn’t look at this missed out on seeing some questionable players who received All-NBA votes.
Stephon Castle’s 2025-26 stats: Fans shocked after Spurs guard gets All-NBA votes
Spurs‘ Stephon Castle was among players who didn’t make an All-NBA team, but still were on the ballot of at least one voter.
Don’t get me wrong, Castle had a great season, and is on a team making a deep playoff run at the moment, but when you look at the results, something looks off.
Not only did Castle receive two votes for the All-NBA third team, but he also received one for the All-NBA second team.
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This basically means he was viewed as a top-10 player in the NBA this season by one voter and a top-15 player by two additional voters.
I’m not sure even the biggest fans of Castle’s could make the argument that he had a good enough season to be awarded a spot on an All-NBA team, which, in the case of the second team, would mean he played at the level of players like Jaylen Brown, Kawhi Leonard and Donovan Mitchell.
In the 2025-26 NBA season, Castle averaged 16.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 7.4 assists.
Castle was not named an All-Star this season and had just the 17th-best voting score among players in the West.
One could make the argument that Castle has had an exceptional playoff run, and they’d be right, but that shouldn’t have any impact on the voting for a regular-season award.
At the end of the day, it didn’t make too much of a difference, but it’s interesting to see that a voter believed he deserved a spot on the second team, which would have put him next to some elite company.
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