NBA All-Star starter snubs: Victor Wembanyama, Anthony Edwards deserved spots, but old star power won out

2024-25 The American Professional League The beginners of all the stars were announced on Thursday, and they were predictable choices with Stephen Careyfor Liberon James and Kevin Durant The oldest old guard- all of them get a gesture at the Western Conference.

The East was an easier call, unlike Polo Paul dilemma. The general voting gathering was obtained correctly through the reward Gallin Bronson and Donovan Mitchell With the start of the rear spots while leaving Ball, who got the largest number of fans ’voices between the Eastern Guard, to fight for a backup place. Below is the full start assortment, as determined by 50 % of fans ’voices and 25 % for the current media and players:

Before we go further, let’s remember that the “beginning” labels have no practical purpose in view of the change in the All-Star format this year, which will retal To be the fourth team) for a championship or a kind.

This looks like a stupid idea, but the American Professional League is desperate to raise any kind of competitive juice between players to make the game (games) at least all stars. We’ll see if it works. But this is another story. What we are talking about is to name these beginners as a issue of identifying the ten players-with warning from two guards/three of the Hadi, of course-who have the best seasons.

Through this lens, voters were absent from high signs Anthony Edwards and Victor and YumanamaBoth deserve the discrimination of beginners. As noted, two guards must be named at each conference, making the first one of these discussions easy:

Edwards should be more than curry

Yes, I understand that the game is present in San Francisco, so we get the concept, and to a certain degree, the validity of the lifelong achievement. Not like Carrie does not have a good season either. he. Its average of 22 points per game in the shooting by 40 % of 3 points without another legitimate threat to occupy the attention of the defense.

He is qualified as a border criminal that Warriors They tend to Carrie greatly at this stage of his career, all to be a team at best, instead of pulling the trigger to trade for help that is still able to use well.

However, Edwards has a better season. For beginners, Edwards records much more (26.2 PPG to 22.6). Second, Edwards leads the league with 184, as three rumors entered the game on Thursday, with Carrie more than 30 in 151; It is almost identical on the basis of each game, and Edwards makes it actually in a much higher section (42.5 % to 40.7 %).

This does not mean anything about the defensive gap between Carrie and Edwards, which clearly carries two -way. All advanced scales prefer Carrie, who, again, has another wonderful season even if the statistics of the counting count do not jump. But Edwards is hampered by many of the same restrictions that the curry faces with warriors, who already have better spacing than wolves. Edwards was forced to bomb 3 to the appropriate bad aspect Julius RandelThose who do not respect the defenses behind the bow.

However, he spends them – again – at a rate higher From the curry. Wolves enjoy a better record than The Warriors, and Edwards has not missed a single game yet, as it fits nine times more than Curry until Thursday. All this adds to Edwards.

It was a difficult climb for Edwards, who was fifth in the fans ’vote, overcoming Carrie, who finished second in Gilgus Alexander among the Western Guard in fans vote, which represents 50 % of the beginners equation. However, the media and players Carrie voted over Edwards as well, and they were mistaken.

Edwards ranked third in both, so they did not miss the sign a lot. But they missed them though. Fans should really blame here, as they made the gap that Edwards needs to a very large cleansing, but it is worth voting on the player and the media as a sign at least to the fact that he has a better season than Carrie.

Wimbi was also overcome

Nicolas Jokic was a lock of one of the three front site in the west, which left four viable candidates in the last two holes: Liberon, Anthony DavisDorty and Wembanyama. As observed, Liberation and Durant were the chosen. Both have very good seasons, but not as good like Webanyama, which he has Tottenham 12 wins before last year-the second best in the league leap from one year to another behind Detroit.

Liberation, 40, was only one of the two players at least 23 points, nine decisive passes and seven counterators in the game on Thursday, with the other as a Jokik, so let’s not go abroad to reduce it worthy of it.

The same applies to Durant, which is an average of 27 points, six rebound balls and four decisive passes on the elite efficiency. But the slight offensive edge Durant, or lebron for this issue, sticks to Webanyama is not enough to cover the huge defensive edge in Webanyama.

On the right track to become the tenth player in the date that prevents four shots for each game, and only five at a time when it reached at least 20 points and 10 counterat marked.

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It should also be noted that Wembanyama played more games than Durant (which is from 35 to 33 relatively small, but still) and puts similar numbers on about three minutes per night. Every 36 minutes, Webanyama scores almost identical points and helps Durant while clearing it away in a rebound, as it scores and retracts a clip larger than Liberon.

So who should take it? I would like to say Durant, only because Phoenix was the most frustrated team among the three participants and because James started the beginning of all stars in a row; There is no need to go to break this series when he still plays on this high level. Also, Liberation fans voted before Durant, so Wimbi had a better shot to overcome Durant.

As for those who blame wemby’s snub, it was first and foremost the fans, who voted Leberon II and Durant III. This put Wimabania behind the eight ball, and the players concluded his fate by voting Liberation and Durant in the second place, which made Wimbi fourth. The second WEMBANYAMA media voted, which was the right invitation, but not enough to achieve the right result.