Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving are not only Mavericks teammates, they’re also starting together for Team LeBron at the All-Star Game Sunday in Salt Lake City.
LeBron James selected his former Cleveland teammate Irving and Doncic, the league’s leading scorer, during the first captain’s draft conducted on the same night as the All-Star Game. Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid will start up front for Team LeBron. The reserves for LeBron’s team include Anthony Edwards, Jaylen Brown, Paul George, Tyrese Haliburton, Julius Randle, De’Aaron Fox and Jaren Jackson Jr.
Donovan Mitchell and one of the players he was traded for, Lauri Markkanen, will start for Team Giannis. Ja Morant and Jayson Tatum round out the starting lineup. Damian Lillard, Jrue Holiday, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, DeMar DeRozan, Pascal Siakam, Bam Adebayo and Domantas Sabonis will be the reserves for Team Giannis.
LeBron drafted a much better team. How did Jokic get drafted 5th? He should been one of the top 2 of the starters. Why is the Utah player in the starting 5?
Jokic is a stat sheet MVP – not a dominant scorer
He’s been top 20 in scoring and is one of the league’s most efficient scorers. He scores as much as prime Shaq and has a much better TS%. What is your criteria for “dominant scorer”?
Really? Shaq avgd 28ppg for 10 years. Joker is at 23.5 for 5 yrs. Joker is more efficient overall (PER) mainly bc of the assists. But he isn’t a dominant scorer, but its skewed bc he dishes the ball so much. Could he lead the league in PPG and you put him in that dominant/elite scoring class sure, but well never see that bc he isn’t going to change his game now, why would he.
if he was more than a stat sheet darling he would be able to impose his will on opponents and get that team into the 2nd rd of the playoffs. imo MVP should go to most dominant player in the game – the player other teams fear, not the guy who can stuff and fluff box score categories.
I mean you’re allowed your opinion.. but this is a pretty terrible take and you’re going to be roasted for it
Zion was voted as starter but he was out due to injury. Markkanen deservedly was an All-Star and since they needed a frontcourt starter replacement, they made the hometown team’s All Star the starter. Nothing wrong with that.
Reserve yes but not a starter just because its in the home city.
NBA All-Star game is a joke. What’s the sense in watching if no one plays defense. it’d be like MLB all star came where none of the infielders fielded ground balls. No wonder no one wants to watch the crap.
No defense and certain players getting shut out while others get 20 shots. What a terrible game
Make it like a best-of-seven series. Each game to 24. You can at lest draw effort out that way
Why do that? Just do 4 quarters. Expand the roster size. Each team has 20 players and the 5v5 is determined by vote. 1st 5 on each side are rising stars. Next 15 are voted. 4th Q are the highest voted in, just go every other based on votes. So top 35 players when you do alternates and 10 rising star players.
How tf would that draw out effort?
The NBA all star show is all about the bright lights and celebrities…
Nothing interesting happens…
There used to be some bright moments when Saturday night was just a bunch of players going through the motions… There was a time when that really mattered… Now to spice it up a G-Leaguer had to be entered in the dunk contest… Because the NBA needed someone to care about the event…
The game itself has moments when rivalries are involved… Which the draft was supposedly meant to spice up by creating rivalries… But instead there’s no east vs west and it’s just a glorified shootaround now…
The NBA all star show is all about the bright lights and celebrities…
Nothing interesting happens…
There used to be some bright moments when Saturday night was just a bunch of players going through the motions… There was a time when that really mattered… Now to spice it up a G-Leaguer had to be entered in the dunk contest… Because the NBA needed someone to care about the event…
The game itself has moments when rivalries are involved… Which the draft was supposedly meant to spice up by creating rivalries… But instead there’s no east vs west and it’s just a glorified shootaround now…
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