In what is considered to be one of the most exciting changes the NBA has made to their All-Star Games in decades, is for the top-voted All-Stars to pick their own teams from the lot, completely dismantling the traditional East Vs West contest.
It is more competitive, players are a lot more invested in the game and the fans get to see what two great players would look like as a team even if they belong to two different conferences.
For the 2020 edition of the All-Star game, Los Angeles Lakers Forward LeBron James and Milwaukee Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo were to pick their teams in a street-ball kind of way and It is clear that the reigning MVP still does not know how to get a good team despite being the captain for the second year in a row.
While James got the opportunity to pick first, being the top-voted All-Star, and he picked his teammate Anthony Davis and a lot of people presumed he would. But after that, nobody knew what was happening as Giannis kept ignoring the cream of the league and James kept picking them one after another.
Here is the order in which James and Giannis picked their teams:
Team LeBron: Anthony Davis
Team Giannis: Joel Embiid
Team LeBron: Kawhi Leonard
Team Giannis: Pascal Siakam
Team LeBron: Luka Doncic
Team Giannis: Kemba Walker
Team LeBron: James Harden
Team Giannis: Trae Young
Team Giannis: Khris Middleton
Team LeBron: Dame Lillard
Team Giannis: Bam Adebayo
Team LeBron: Ben Simmons
Team Giannis: Rudy Gobert
Team LeBron: Nikola Jokic
Team Giannis: Jimmy Butler
Team LeBron: Jayson Tatum
Team Giannis: Kyle Lowry
Team LeBron: Chris Paul
Team Giannis: Brandon Ingram
Team LeBron: Russell Westbrook
Team Giannis: Donovan Mitchell
Team LeBron: Domantas Sabonis
Here is what is crazy, according to the NBA’s MVP ladder, the top five players who are playing for the award are LeBron James, Giannis Antetounmpo, James Harden, Luka Doncic and Kawhi Leonard and James has everyone other than Giannis in his team!
A couple of days ago, Giannis put out a tweet talking about the fantastic performance by Shakira and Jennifer Lopez at Super Bowl Half TIme and how it almost got him into trouble:
Maybe Giannis was still thinking about it and this time, it did land him into a lot of trouble?
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