Boston Celtics

Celtic teammates defend Avery Bradley's defending

Published May. 21, 2015 2:43 p.m. ET

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When the All-Defense rosters came out this week, one potential name was missing from the team: Avery Bradley.

Bradley had a wonderful defensive season in Boston, as usual, but didn't find himself picking up any accolades. Now, his teammates are coming to his defense.

First, it was Isaiah Thomas:

Then, just two minutes later, Jared Sullinger sent out some Bradley defense into the Twitter abyss:

Bradley's defense hardly went unacknowledged. He received the fourth-most votes of anyone who didn't actually make one of the two All-Defense teams, behind LeBron James, Rudy Gobert and Russell Westbrook.

You can check out full All-Defense results here.

(H/t to Chris Forsberg of ESPN for the find.)