The 2024-25 NBA All-Star starters will be announced Thursday night, and for my money, there are four locks to earn one of the 10 spots: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic, the league's two leading MVP candidates,

Through that lens, the voters missed on a couple high-profile marks by naming Curry, James and Durant as starters over Anthony Edwards and Victor Wembanyama, both of whom deserved the starter distinction. As noted, two guards have to be named in each conference, so that makes the first one of these debates sort of easy:

LeBron James and Stephen Curry will once again be starters in the 2025 NBA All-Star Game, continuing a two-decade streak.

The New York Knicks are currently sitting near the top of the East with a 26-15 record and possession of the conference's No. 3 seed. Unfortunately, the team has begun to slip after an impressive stretch of games from their two superstar options Karl-Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson.

This will be LeBron's 21st season as an All-Star Game starter. LaMelo Ball and Victor Wembanyama did not make the starters cut.

You know how it goes. Every year fans vote on who they think the starters in the All-Star game should be. That fan vote accounts for 50 percent of the tally. Another 25 percent goes to the players and the final 25 percent goes to media. The NBA adds all that together and brings you the All-Star game starting rosters.

The Eastern Conference starters will be Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks, Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks, Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics and Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks.

Pack your bags. It’s time to head out West. The New York Knicks will have not one, but two players named to the starting lineup for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game in San Francisco, Calif., on Feb 16. Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns were both named Eastern Conference starters,

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