SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green’s Hall of Fame legacy as one of the NBA’s all-time great stoppers was further solidified on Thursday morning.

The 35-year-old frontcourt standout was named to the league’s first-team all-defensive squad for the fifth time in his career. Green has also been named to the NBA’s all-defense second team four times.

Green was an overwhelming choice for the first team, receiving 81 first-place votes and 17 second-place votes from the 100 voters. No other Warrior received even a single second-place vote. Green joined Cleveland’s Evan Mobley, Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels, Oklahoma City’s Lu Dort and San Leandro native Amen Thompson of Houston on the all-defense team.

Green previously came in third in Defensive Player of the Year voting in April behind Mobley, the winner, and Daniels.

Green anchored what was the NBA’s top defense in the second half of the season, a run of form that coincided with the team’s 23-8 record after trading for Jimmy Butler.

Green put up 1.5 steals and 1.0 blocks per game during the regular season, but his impact went beyond the numbers.

“Statistics don’t always tell the story,” Green said during the regular season. “Some guys get the stats and get picked on. Some guys get the stats and can be a liability to their defense, they take too many chances and their defense breaks down. We don’t do that.”

He had a defining moment in the first round of the playoffs when he made a stop on Alperen Sengun in the final seconds of Game 4 against Houston.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr repeatedly called Green “the best defender in the league” and compared him to Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman after a late-season game against Milwaukee.

“You can see the parallels, the length, the physicality, and ultimately it’s up here, it’s the brain, and Dennis and Scottie were the two smartest defenders I’ve ever been around, and Draymond is amazing in that regard,” Kerr said.

The Warriors reached the second round of the playoffs before an injury to superstar Steph Curry sent them to a five-game loss to the Timberwolves in the West semifinals.

Moody undergoes surgery

The Warriors announced that Moses Moody, 22, underwent surgery on a torn ligament in his right thumb.

Moody, who averaged a career-high 9.8 points and shot 37% from 3-point distance, is expected to be ready for the start of training camp.

Moody also averaged career highs in minutes played (22.3) and steals per game (0.8) as one of the team’s top defensive players.

An ailing right thumb could explain his shooting woes during the postseason, when the fourth-year guard suffered through a horrendous 0-of-15 shooting slump and shot just 4-of-23 over his last six playoff games.

Moody had been a starter in the second half of the season, but was replaced by Buddy Hield in the starting lineup in Game 3 of the Houston series, and saw his minutes slashed to under 20 a game by the time Game 7 rolled around.

After going through his 0 of 15 skid, the Arkansas product finally made a shot in Game 4, and then ended his season with a 3-of-6, 12-point outing in Game 5 against Minnesota.

Moody was not the only Warrior to deal with an injured right thumb this season. Curry also played through a thumb injury that he suffered in January. Pictures of his swollen thumb went viral on social media during the playoffs.

Curry’s injured thumb was famously the target of borderline dirty swipes by the Rockets.