Most years not getting All-Star votes from other players

The NBA All-Star course of is a recognition contest, and that doesn’t simply imply recognition with followers however with fellow gamers, too. That’s as a result of since 2016-17, the NBA has lively gamers and media be a part of followers within the voting course of for All-Star starters, with gamers’ votes counting for 25 p.c of the general whole.

Naturally, some gamers began treating the method as a joke, voting for his or her teammates or associates to be All-Stars, deserving of the distinction or not. Simply this yr, the likes of Jordan Walsh, Christian Wooden and Yuki Kawamura acquired an All-Star vote from a fellow participant. Wooden hasn’t even performed in a recreation but this season.

That obtained us questioning about which gamers in NBA historical past have performed probably the most seasons with out incomes a single All-Star vote from a fellow participant. And one of many two gamers who holds the file for that shocked us.

Austin Rivers performed seven seasons within the NBA as soon as fellow gamers began becoming a member of within the All-Star voting course of. And in that point, he by no means obtained a single All-Star vote from one other participant, a file he holds with Landry Shamet.

That’s regardless of Rivers’ two greatest campaigns within the NBA – 2016-17 and 2017-18 – coming proper when gamers began becoming a member of within the All-Star vote. ’18 was the perfect season of Rivers’ profession, with the gifted 2-guard averaging 15.1 factors and 4.0 assists on 37.8 p.c capturing from three that yr.

So this was a little bit of a head-scratcher for us. Was Rivers actually that unpopular amongst his friends that not a single one determined to throw him an All-Star vote, whilst a joke? As you’re about to seek out out under, he’s one of many two greatest gamers on this checklist (and the one participant who might need been higher on this checklist, Brandon Knight, was already slowed down by accidents in ’17 when gamers grew to become a part of the All-Star voting course of).

And Rivers was an enormous identify, popping out of highschool as an elite, well-known prospect, and heading to Duke to play for the legendary Mike Krzyzewski earlier than attending to the NBA as a lottery choose. He’s additionally the son of long-time NBA participant and head coach Doc Rivers.

However possibly it was that nepotistic side of Rivers’ journey that made him unpopular together with his friends. Or maybe it was his playstyle, as Rivers grew to become a defensive pest (praise) within the NBA, one who would discuss a good quantity of trash.

Or possibly it was just by likelihood that one other participant by no means thought to throw Rivers as an All-Star vote.

Regardless of the purpose was, under, you may try the total rating of the NBA gamers with probably the most seasons performed to by no means get an All-Star vote from one other NBA participant.