With the Western Conference All-Star Starters Pool revealed, Ernie, Charles, Kenny & Shaq review the potential reserves.
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Who are your All-Star reserves from the Western Conference?
Editor’s Note: The All-Star reserves will officially be announced on Thursday night on TNT (6:30 p.m. ET)
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Steve Aschburner
- Kyrie Irving, Dallas Mavericks
- Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves
- Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs
- Anthony Davis, Los Angeles Lakers
- Domantas Sabonis, Sacramento Kings
- Jalen Williams, Oklahoma City Thunder
- Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies
Legitimate All-Star candidates out West are as abundant as playoff contenders. It’s nice to see Irving embedded as a player sans controversy or fussing. Edwards might be able to use the weekend to hit a reset button on a rocky first half. The West’s second frontcourt could destroy the East’s (and we don’t know who’ll even be on the same mini-squads together). Williams and Jackson are truly versatile picks befitting the “wild card” slots. The toughest omissions? Alperen Sengun, De’Aaron Fox, Devin Booker and Norman Powell.
Brian Martin
- Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves
- Kyrie Irving, Dallas Mavericks
- Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs
- Anthony Davis, Los Angeles Lakers
- Domantas Sabonis, Sacramento Kings
- Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies
- Alperen Sengun, Houston Rockets
Wembanyama and Davis were on my starters ballot, so they were easy choices here for the frontcourt. As for the backcourt, Irving essentially took my Luka Dončić spot and edged out Norman Powell, Devin Booker and De’Aaron Fox. Jalen Williams is the odd man out for me in the stacked Western Conference wild card race as I wanted to get at least one Rockets player and one Grizzlies player before having two from the Thunder.
Shaun Powell
- Norman Powell, LA Clippers
- Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves
- Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs
- Anthony Davis, Los Angeles Lakers
- Alperen Sengun, Houston Rockets
- Domantas Sabonis, Sacramento Kings
- Jalen Williams, Oklahoma City Thunder
Feeling bad about having no Grizzlies on this team, which means I won’t be invited back to Central BBQ in Memphis anytime soon. Jaren Jackson Jr. is deserving, but the competition on the frontcourt is fierce this year. Also, a salute to Powell (and not because we share the same last name) who is the rare veteran to improve somewhat drastically so late in his career. He gets the narrow vote over De’Aaron Fox in the backcourt.
John Schuhmann
- Anthony Davis, Los Angeles Lakers
- Anthony Edwards, Minnesota Timberwolves
- Kyrie Irving, Dallas Mavericks
- Jaren Jackson Jr., Memphis Grizzlies
- Domantas Sabonis, Sacramento Kings
- Alperen Sengun, Houston Rockets
- Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs
Edwards, Sabonis and Wembanyama were starters on my official ballot last week, and Jackson is another easy pick in the frontcourt. If this were a positionless exercise, the remaining three picks might also be bigs. But a second guard is needed and Irving gets the edge over De’Aaron Fox and James Harden, helping keep the Mavs above .500 (10-7) in games he’s played without Luka Dončić.
Davis is next for the huge numbers he’s been putting up, and the final spot came down to Sengun and Ivica Zubac. The latter has been anchoring the league’s second-ranked defense, but Sengun has been doing a little more (for a better team) when you take both ends of the floor into account.
