NBA All-Stars have been released for 2019. We got the starters last week, and now the reserves have come in.
The teams will be selected by captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo on Feb. 7 on a live broadcast on TNT. Meanwhile, fans are ecstatic about the players from their favorite teams that made the All-Star game, while at the same time are angry about potential snubs.
As it happens every year — largely because of the continued requirement of a certain number of players from each conference — there appear to be several significant All-Star “snubs” and this season is no different.
The biggest is probably Rudy Gobert, who has been the defensive anchor or a Utah Jazz team that has turned their season around and is currently seventh in the West. Gobert could have easily replaced LaMarcus Aldridge or perhaps Klay Thompson, who is having a down year (at least for his standards) in Golden State.
A quick list of potential 2019 NBA All-Star snubs yields a considerable pool of considerables, including but not limited to:
- Rudy Gobert
- DeMar DeRozan
- D’Angelo Russell
- Jimmy Butler
- CJ McCollum
- Donovan Mitchell
- Jusuf Nurkic
- Luka Doncic
- Jayson Tatum
- Andre Drummond
- Al Horford
- Zach LaVine
- Eric Bledsoe
- Jaylen Brown
- Spencer Dinwiddie
- Steven Adams
- Tobias Harris
- Mike Conley
Who do you think should have made the All-Star Game out of this list? And if you are going to supplant one of the guys that did make it, who would they replace?
The NBA has more good players than they can fit on to two All-Star teams, and that will probably always be the case. That gives fans and players something to consider, and acts as fuel for the fire for the rest of the season.
