After the big tension accompanying the NBA Trade Deadline, the atmosphere was a little more relaxed after midnight, when LeBron James and Kevin Durant went into GM mode to select their All-Stars for the next All-Star game in Cleveland. A look back at the numbers of Team LeBron and Team KD, and especially at the end of the already legendary Draft.
Like last year, LeBron James and Kevin Durant were named captains for the next All-Star Game and who says captains says coaches, even if KD will not participate in the party on February 20 because of injury. Having finished first in the vote, the King had the opportunity to start and he took the opportunity to set up a real dream team. Check the five of Team LeBron a little: Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan, and therefore LBJ. How to say, it’s rather a good basketball team, don’t you think? Opposite, obviously it’s not bad either with Joel Embiid, Ja Morant, Jayson Tatum, Trae Young and Andrew Wiggins, but we still feel a little imbalance that the great Wiggins himself cannot compensate.
- Team LeBron : LeBron James (C), Giannis Antetokounmpo (1er pick), Nikola Jokic, Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan, Luka Doncic, Darius Garland, Chris Paul, Jimmy Butler, Donovan Mitchell, Fred VanVleet, James Harden
- Team KD : Joel Embiid (1er pick), Ja Morant, Jayson Tatum, Trae Young, Andrew Wiggins, Devin Booker, Karl-Anthony Towns, Zach LaVine, Dejounte Murray, Khris Middleton, LaMelo Ball, Rudy Gobert
Mdr KD he doesn’t give a damn about the Draft he has only one project to take Embiid in 1 and make sure that Harden is not in his team I’m just waiting for LeBron who will want to put him in a corner
– TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) February 10, 2022
Here is the full squad. But we advise you to read on since the greatest moment of this Draft came at the very end. We felt it coming, we started to smile like Charles Barkley as we advanced towards the last picks, and it did not fail. James Harden, transferred from the Nets to the Sixers a few hours earlier, was chosen … last by LeBron, who did everything to put KD on the spot by refusing to select the Bearded before the ultimate choice. As a result, we were treated to the perfect scenario, the one where Durant had to choose between Harden – his now former teammate – and another All-Star, who was incidentally our national Rudy Gobert. And Kevin therefore chose Rudy by justifying his selection through a basketball analysis which could very well have been replaced by a simple “F*ck James Harden”.
???????????????????? KD and LeBron who have to fight between Harden and Gobert for their last pick pic.twitter.com/LUWRGyxtwh
– TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) February 11, 2022
“I really need size and interior defense, especially given the level of Giannis and LeBron James this year. I need someone to counter this, so I’m taking Rudy Gobert. »
– Kevin Durant
Opposite, in good troll that he is, LeBron James had a good laugh behind his plate in the company of Charles Barkley and Co. The King therefore found himself with Harden as the last choice, asking at the same time if the Bearded Man was operational in view of his recent “bobos”. Chuck obviously took the opportunity to place a beautiful one, just to close the deal in style.
LeBron: “James Harden hasn’t played recently, is he injured? »
Barkley: “Oh well he just got transferred so he’s more injured now! » ????????????????????pic.twitter.com/KzvKupkhLk
– TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) February 11, 2022
Just wonderful. Each year, the All-Star Game Draft brings its epic moments and this time it was not the Jazz players who took the dear but James Harden. This is what happens when you decide to change teams twice in just over a year…
Source text: NBA on TNT
