NBA All-Star Weekend 2019: All-Star Squads, Team World vs Team USA Squads
The NBA All-Star weekend is one of the most popular and glorious events of the NBA, where the best of the best players compete against each other. This year's NBA all-star draft was televised for the first time in the history of the sport.
LeBron James (West Captain) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (East Captain) chose their teams according to the best interest to win the game. In this article, we will be briefly talking about the NBA All-Star teams and the Team USA & Team World.
This year's all-star teams look quite impressive as usual but there were arguably some snubs in the NBA all-star selection, notably, Derrick Rose's exclusion from the match was quite surprising.
Luka Doncic and Rudy Gobert are two other players who could have been selected for the reserves, but this is the world's best basketball players we are talking about, and unfortunately, everyone can't become all-stars.
Let's have a look at the Team USA and Team World for the Rising Stars game.
Team USA
Jarrett Allen
Marvin Bagley III
Lonzo Ball (injured)
John Collins
De'Aaron Fox
Jaren Jackson Jr.
Kevin Knox
Kyle Kuzma
Donovan Mitchell
Jayson Tatum
Trae Young
Team World
OG Anunoby
Deandre Ayton
Bogdan Bogdanovic
Luka Doncic
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Rodions Kurucs
Lauri Markkanen
Josh Okogie
Cedi Osman
Ben Simmons
Hopefully, we will get an exciting fixture among these guns at the all-star weekend. It will see a number of second-year stars such as Ben Simmons, Donovon Mitchell and Jayson Tatum and a few rookies, most notably, Luka Doncic, DeAndre Ayton and Trae Young who will look to leave their impact on the game.
Now, let's have a look at the main focus of NBA All-Star Weekend i.e. the roster of the Team LeBron and Team Giannis.
Team LeBron
Starters: LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, James Harden
Reserves: Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, Damian Lillard, Ben Simmons, LaMarcus Aldridge, Karl-Anthony Towns, Bradley Beal, Dwyane Wade.
Team Giannis
Starters: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry, Joel Embiid, Paul George, Kemba Walker
Reserves: Khris Middleton, Nikola Jokic, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, D’Angelo Russell, Nikola Vucevic, Kyle Lowry, Dirk Nowitzki.
The above-mentioned teams are the final teams for the upcoming NBA All-star weekend and we are hoping for a thrilling match between the two sides. This year's All-Star game had an exception i.e. inclusion of Dwayne Wade and Dirk Nowitzki as a tribute to their contributions for the league.