Mavs minority owner Mark Cuban gives brutally honest take on Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving's All-Star snubs
Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving's NBA All-Star 2025 snubs prompted Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban to offer an honest assessment. He took to X (formerly Twitter) to call out the league and take a potshot at the TV ratings for the upcoming ASG event in San Francisco.
Cuban shared a picture of both Luka Doncic and Irving celebrating one of the games and captioned it:
"Those tv ratings for All Star are gonna be crazy... Lol
NBA gonna NBA
JUST INSANE Luka and Kai aren't going"
While Cuban's disappointment met with a fair bit of sympathy from fans, the ultimate say hinges on coaches from their respective conferences. Numbers-wise, Kyrie Irving averages 24.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.9 assists, and 1.2 steals per contest while shooting 48.2% from the field and 41.9% from the three-point range in 38 games.
Luka Doncic is propping 28.1 points, 8.3 rebounds, 7.8 assists, and 2.0 steals per contest while shooting 46.4% from the field and 35.4% from the three-point range in 22 games. At the time of writing, Dallas is eighth seed with a 26-22 record in 48 games. He made the cut for five straight seasons.
The West All-Star reserves include James Harden (LA Clippers), Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs), Anthony Davis (LA Lakers), Jaren Jackson Jr. (Memphis Grizzlies), Jalen Williams (OKC Thunder), Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves), and Alperen Sengun (Houston Rockets).
Luka Doncic off to a slow start this season before finding his groove
Luka Doncic was off to a slow start this season but later bounced back to average solid numbers before going down with a gruesome injury on Christmas Day. While the numbers are still worthy of being considered for All-Star selection.
The starters weighted from 50% from the fans, 25% of player votes, and 25% of the vote from the medial and All-Star reserves are selected entirely by the NBA coaches, the guard's injury absence may have played a key factor in his snub. Only time will tell if the mercurial duo can make the non-selection count with another playoff run.