The NBA introduced the reserves for the 2024-25 All-Star sport on Thursday night time, and San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is among the greatest names to earn a spot. The second-year standout might be attending his first All-Star Sport and is among the prime reserves after narrowly lacking out on a beginning spot within the Western Convention.
He’s averaging 24.4 factors and 10.8 rebounds per sport, whereas additionally main the league in blocks for the second 12 months in a row.
He is one of many greatest vibrant spots on a Spurs workforce that is in twelfth place within the Western Convention and making an attempt to maintain tempo within the race for a play-in spot.
Wembanyama was one of the anticipated and hyped draft prospects to enter the NBA since LeBron James, and he hasn’t dissatisfied. Not even two full seasons into his profession, he already seems to be like he has the prospect to be a franchise-altering participant and grow to be one of many faces of the league.
He must be a daily at this occasion.
This 12 months’s sport will happen Feb. 16 in San Francisco.
The opposite reserves for the Western Convention embrace Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves), Anthony Davis (Los Angeles Lakers), James Harden (Los Angeles Clippers), Jaren Jackson Jr. (Memphis Grizzlies), Alperen Sengun (Houston Rockets) and Jalen Williams (Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder).
Wembanyama, Sengun and Williams are all showing of their first sport.
Davis is chosen for the tenth time, whereas Harden goes to his eleventh sport.
Within the Japanese Convention, the reserves embrace Jaylen Brown (Boston Celtics), Pascal Siakam (Indiana Pacers), Darius Garland (Cleveland Cavaliers), Evan Mobley (Cleveland Cavaliers), Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons), Damian Lillard (Milwaukee Bucks) and Tyler Herro (Miami Warmth).
