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New 12 months’s Decision: Market Jalen Johnson’s All-Star push
If this feels too early to speak about All-Star, I’d agree… besides the voting polls are open! We’re on the level within the season the place persons are beginning to critically contemplate All-Star candidacies, however not shut sufficient that there are greater than a handful of surefire circumstances.
One participant making an attempt to make his first look is Atlanta’s breakout fourth-year ahead Jalen Johnson. Johnson is averaging 20 factors, 10 rebounds, and 5 and a half assists whereas additionally racking up greater than a steal and a block per sport — monster numbers matched by exactly zero other players in the league. Not Wembanyama, not Davis, not Tatum, not Giannis.
Trae Younger, main the league in assists, appears like a comparatively certain factor to make the All-Star sport. Nonetheless, Johnson is a fringe case, and that’s the place Atlanta’s advertising workforce must earn their wage. Can we get Johnson bobbleheads despatched to media members? How about, like, a hawk feather quill pen with a Johnson inkwell?
Because of this I’m not incomes any of Atlanta’s advertising funds, however I’m certain they’ll develop one thing higher. Make a push, Hawks!
