There is a great chance that Milwaukee Bucks Giannis Antetokounmpo will be participating in the 2025 NBA All-Star Game this year. The format is going to be different compared to what it has been for the past several years.
“The All-Star format this year is going to be different. Rather than two teams, the NBA is dividing 24 All-Stars into three, and they, along with the winning team from the Rising Stars Challenge, will duke it out in a four-team tournament. We’re still more than a month away from the actual selection of 2024-25 All-Stars, but now that the Cup is in the rearview mirror, it’s time to start considering who’s going to be playing in San Francisco in February.
To that end, we’re going to pick All-Star teams for both conferences based on the two-month sample we currently have. The goal of this exercise will be to choose the 12 players who I expect to deserve selection when the real teams are chosen based on their performance so far. This means that I will not be beholden to anticipated voting results, but that injuries that will likely cost a player too many games will ultimately count.”
With the all-star tournament being different, it is going to be interesting to see what the teams are going to look like when they are drafted after all of the all-star nominees are selected from the Western Conference and the Eastern Conference. There will still be 12 all-star representatives from each conference.
CBS Sports Has Milwaukee Bucks Giannis Antetokounmpo As An Eastern Conference All-Star Starter This Season
If the all-star game was West vs East this season, it would have been another high-scoring affair with no defense being played. Sam Quinn of CBS Sports predicted his starting five for the Eastern Conference this year if it was the old format. To no surprise, one of his starters for the East is Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks.
The other four starters he has for the Eastern Conference are Jayson Tatum of the Boston Celtics, Donovan Mitchell of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks, and Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks. Quinn said about Antetokounmpo being one of the five starters:
“Antetokounmpo is the conference’s leading scorer, and is on track to shatter his own career-high in scoring and field goal percentage. Though his 3-point shot never quite came around, Antetokounmpo is having a monster mid-range season. Only DeMar DeRozan, Brandon Ingram and Devin Booker have taken more mid-range shots than he has this season, and the 46.3% of them he’s made puts him squarely in superstar territory. His defense isn’t quite what it used to be, but that level of scoring dominance coupled with his typical playmaking and rebounding makes him an obvious All-Star starter.”
Antetokounmpo this season is averaging 32.7 PPG, 11.6 RPG, and 6.0 APG. He is first in points per game in the NBA and he is sixth in the NBA in rebounds per game.
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Milwaukee is 15-12 this season and without Antetokounmpo, they would be one of the worst teams in the NBA. They were 2-8 to start the season and Giannis Antetokounmpo’s heroics are why they are out of the basement in the Eastern Conference. Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard led the Bucks to an NBA in-season Cup Title this season.
There is still more of the regular season to go, but it would be a shock if Antetokounmpo wasn’t one of the vote leaders in the Eastern Conference for the all-star game. He could be the lone player on the roster who makes the all-star game this season.
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