With the 2022 NBA All-Star starter officially announced, Morant and Wiggins will make their NBA career debuts. Morant is the key to the Grizzlies becoming the dark horse of the season, and Wiggins' progress is also an important factor in the Warriors' position in the top two in the league, and the two are well deserved. So, the first All-Star in the NBA is the first to start the vote, who else but Wiggins?
Before Wiggins and Morant, the most recent all-Star debut for a player was the first time in 2020, when there were as many as nine "new faces" in that All-Star Game, including three people who started the vote, namely Luka Doncic, Trae Young and Siakam. Doncic and "Blowing Young" both played "phenomenal" performances as second-year students at the time, while Siakam played well after being pushed into the foreground after Kowy Leonard left.
Among the active players who started the All-Star vote in the second year, in addition to Doncic and Trae Young, there are LeBron James, Joel Embiid and Blake Griffin, of which James and Embiid are all-Stars for the first time in their careers. Griffin, who entered the NBA 6 years later than James, although he was selected to the All-Star Regular Game in his rookie season, griffin has been marginalized by the Nets this season in the case of James's record-setting re-emergence as the ticket king.
As the favoriteS for the NBA regular season MVP this season, Alphabet Brother and Stephen Curry have also been the first All-Star of their careers to be voted starting players. As the first round of the 2013 NBA Draft No. 15 show, Alphabet Brother only ushered in the All-Star game debut of his NBA career in 2017, and the votes in the Eastern Conference frontcourt All-Stars that year were second only to the current All-Star Vote King LeBron James; and Curry, who was the first round of the 7th pick of the 2009 NBA Draft, made his All-Star debut in 2014, second only to Kevin Durant among the Western Conference players that year.
Cowhi Leonard, who has won two Finals MVP but has never touched the regular season MVP, is also the player who started the All-Star debut. As the No. 15 pick in the first round of the 2011 NBA Draft, he finally made his All-Star debut two years after winning his first FMVP trophy, narrowly beating Zaza Pachulia and Drummond Green to become the Western Conference All-Star starter. It is worth mentioning that Leonard's All-Star votes that year were less than a fraction of Kobe Bryant's.
In addition, there is another active player who is the player who started the all-Star debut in his career, and that is Kyle Lowry. As the no. 24 pick in the first round of the 2006 NBA Draft, Lowry finally made his All-Star debut in the ninth season of his NBA career, beating Devon Wade and Kyrie Irving in the 2015 All-Star voting to become an All-Star starter.
Among the NBA active players who made their career All-Star debuts, James, Alphabet Brother, Curry and Leonard have all led the team to win the championship, and young players Middle East Cic and Trae Young have shown a very high standard, what heights do you think Wiggins and Morant will reach?