With LeBron James already the top scorer in history, the NBA disembarks this weekend in Salt Lake City (USA) for an edition of the All Star marked by the absence of injured figures such as Kevin Durant or Stephen Curry.
The All Star 2023 event will take place at the home of the Utah Jazz, whose main course will arrive on Sunday (early Monday morning in Spain) with the match between the teams led by LeBron himself (Los Angeles Lakers) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks).
Here we highlight some curious facts that will take place in the All Star 2023:
Western Conference players: LeBron (Los Angeles Lakers), Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets), Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors), Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks) and Zion Williamson (New Orleans Pelicans).
In terms of reserves, the West features Ja Morant (Memphis Grizzlies), Paul George (Los Angeles Clippers), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder), and Jaren Jackson Jr. (Oklahoma City Thunder). (Memphis Grizzlies), Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers), Lauri Markkanen (Utah Jazz) and Domantas Sabonis (Sacramento Kings).
Eastern Conference players: Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics), Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets, now at Phoenix Suns), Kyrie Irving (Brooklyn Nets, now at Dallas Mavericks) and Donovan Mitchell (Cleveland Cavaliers) along with Antetokounmpo for the starting five.
And in the East, the bench was formed by Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers), Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat), Jaylen Brown (Boston Celtics), DeMar DeRozan (Chicago Bulls), Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana Pacers), Jrue Holiday (Milwaukee Bucks ) and Julius Randle (New York Knicks).
However, Durant, Curry and Williamson will be out due to injury, so the NBA selected Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves), De'Aaron Fox (Sacramento Kings) and Pascal Siakam (Toronto Raptors) as substitutes.
These three players will be reserves so the three injured All-Star starters will go to Embiid, Markkanen and Morant.
Mike Malone (Denver Nuggets) will coach Team LeBron while Joe Mazzulla (Boston Celtics) will coach Team Antetokounmpo.
In the golden age of the outside shot in the NBA, the All Star 3-point contest will present a splendid list with many names in capital letters.
Thus, Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana Pacers), Tyler Herro (Miami Heat), Buddy Hield (Indiana Pacers), Kevin Huerter (Sacramento Kings), Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers), Lauri Markkanen (Utah Jazz), Anfernee Simons (Portland Trail Blazers) and Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics) will compete to see who is the successor to Latino Karl Anthony Towns (Minnesota Timberwolves), who won last year.
More doubts are raised by the dunk contest, in decline in recent years and with many voices in the NBA asking for changes.
Kenyon Martin Jr. (Houston Rockets), Mac McClung (Philadelphia 76ers), Trey Murphy III (New Orleans Pelicans) and Jericho Sims (New York Knicks) will face off to take the baton from the winner in 2022, Obi Toppin (New York Knicks).
Three key events host the All Star Naba 2023:
All the All Star 2023 matches can be seen in Spain on Movistar both on the Vamos channels (dialls 8 and 45) and on Movistar Deportes (channel 53).
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