Tyrese Maxey named to All-NBA Third Team, led the entire league in minutes

Tyrese Maxey was named to the All-NBA Third Team for the 2025-26 season. First in the league in minutes per game at 38.0. Fifth in scoring at 28.3 points per game. Career highs in assists, rebounds, and steals.

A 54-point game against the Bucks in November. Five games with 40 or more points. Only scored under 20 in seven of his 70 regular season appearances. The last Sixer to make an All-NBA team was Embiid on the First Team during his MVP season in 2022-23.

Tyrese Maxey All NBA Third Team

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Tyrese Maxey is 25 years old and just put together the best season of his career while carrying one of the thinnest rosters in the NBA on his back for 38 minutes a night. He played through a pinky injury in the playoffs.

He averaged 23.7 points, 5.9 assists, and 4.0 rebounds in the postseason. He closed out Game 7 against the Celtics with two driving layups on fumes after playing 45 minutes. He was the only Sixer who showed up with consistent urgency and effort every single night regardless of who was healthy, who was injured, or how badly the bench was failing around him.

Third Team is great. Maxey deserved higher.

Tyrese Maxey probably should have been Second Team

Tyrese Maxey got 36 Second Team votes and 60 Third Team votes from the 100-person media panel. Jalen Brunson made the Second Team. Brunson averaged 26.3 points per game on a Knicks team with significantly more depth and a supporting cast that actually showed up in the playoffs. Maxey averaged 28.3 on a team where he was playing 38 minutes a night because there was nobody behind him to share the workload.

I’m not going to argue Tyrese Maxey over every Second Team selection because Durant and Leonard had strong seasons. But the gap between Maxey and Brunson is smaller than the voting suggests and the workload Maxey carried on a roster this thin should have been weighted more heavily.

The man led the league in minutes played. He wasn’t logging those minutes because Nurse wanted to run him into the ground. He was logging them because the roster was so devoid of depth that sitting him for even a few minutes cratered the offense.

The Maxey-Edgecombe Future Is the Only Hope

The Sixers are searching for a new president of basketball operations. The roster needs a complete overhaul around the edges. Embiid’s health is a permanent question mark. George is in his mid-30s on a massive contract. The organization is in flux at every level from ownership to the front office to the coaching staff.

The one thing that’s certain is Tyrese Maxey. He’s locked in long-term. He’s entering his prime. He just made All-NBA. He has a backcourt partner in Edgecombe who was a Rookie of the Year finalist and played fearlessly in the biggest moments of the postseason. Those two together are the foundation that everything else gets built around.

If the next front office builds properly around Maxey and Edgecombe, the Sixers can be legitimate contenders for the next decade. If they waste Maxey’s prime the way they’ve wasted Embiid’s, this franchise is going to have a lot more to answer for than a second-round playoff exit.

Tyrese Maxey made All-NBA Third Team. He deserved better from the voters. He definitely deserved better from the organization. Give this man a roster that matches his talent and stop asking him to play 38 minutes a night because there’s nobody else.

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