{"id":238589,"date":"2026-04-15T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/the-5-nba-first-team-all-defense-quiz\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:00:32","slug":"the-5-nba-first-team-all-defense-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/the-5-nba-first-team-all-defense-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;5+ NBA First-Team All-Defense&#8217; quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Happy 70th birthday to eight-time All-NBA selection, 1986-87 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, five-time NBA champion and Class of 2024 Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Cooper!<\/p>\n<p><span> Cooper was a third-round pick (60th-overall) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/los_angeles_lakers\/89\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> in 1978 after playing his college basketball at New Mexico. After playing in just three games as a rookie, he appeared in all 82 games for the first of six times in his career in 1979-80. In 1980-81, he was named to his first All-Defense team by making Second Team before making his debut on the First Team the following season.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite being recognized as one of the best defenders in the league in eight-straight seasons, he didn\u2019t win his first Defensive Player of the Year award until 1986-87 en route to his fourth title with Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Which brings us to today\u2019s quiz. Cooper made First-Team All-Defense in five NBA seasons. How many of the 21 players share that distinction can you name in five minutes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><span><em>Did you like this quiz? Are there any quizzes you\u2019d like to see us make in the future? Let us know your thoughts at quizzes@yardbarker.com, and make sure to subscribe to our Quiz of the Day Newsletter for daily quizzes sent right to your email!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/the_5_nba_first_team_all_defense_quiz\/s1__43728725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 70th birthday to eight-time All-NBA selection, 1986-87 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, five-time NBA champion and Class of 2024 Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Cooper! Cooper was a third-round pick (60th-overall) of the Los Angeles Lakers in 1978 after playing his college basketball at New Mexico. After playing in just three games as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}