With the NBA’s 2024-25 awards season now complete, the league has released the individual voter ballots from its media panel.

Amen also becomes the fifth ever Houston Rocket to make the NBA All-Defensive First Team, joining the likes of Hakeem Olajuwon, Rodney McCray, Scottie Pippen and Patrick Beverly. All who played decorated respective NBA careers.

A whole generation of opponents are going to learn the same lessons about the Rockets' stand-out defensive guru that Steph Curry already did.

Amen Thompson took a major step forward in Year 2, and he's just one of the many talented players that make up the youth movement in H-Town.

However, the player who had the biggest jump especially in the last two seasons was Amen Thompson. The Houston Rockets drafted Thompson fourth overall in the 2023 draft, knowing he was one of ...