Rockets second-year rising stars Jeshaun Tate, eye-catching Jaylen Green and Alperen Shinkin will reportedly represent the Rockets at this year's All-Star Rising Star Championship. Each Year on All-Star Weekend, 12 Rookie Players, 12 Second-Year Rising Stars, and Four Development League players are selected, and these Rising Star players will be divided into four 7-player teams, and each team will participate in three tournaments.
The Rockets and Pistons (Cunningham, Sadiq Bay, Stewart) and Magic (Sargas, Wagner, Cole Anthony) are the only three players in the league to play. In addition to this, Jaylen Green will also participate in the All-Star Weekend dunk contest.
On the other hand, Rockets second-year striker KJ Martin and rookie guard Josh Christopher, both of whom are players eligible for the Rising Star Championship, have also expressed their dissatisfaction on social media after losing the election.
In fact, there are still many players in the league who can meet this condition, but the league may prefer to divide the places evenly among different teams, just like the dunk contest with only 4 players selected, and generally the league will not let players from the same team be selected.
Finally, the Rockets veteran Gerald Green mentioned in a show the importance of Kevin Porter Jr. to the rocket's future:
"I think he's a very good young core of the team and they still need to learn how to win games. I think the sky is his limit (Potter), he's probably the next James Harden the Rockets are looking for, and that's my opinion. ”
James Harden was not only the team's superstar during his time with the Rockets, he was also one of the best players in the history of the league, and although Gerald Green was optimistic that Porter Jr. could become a player of this level, he was clearly not such a player at the moment, or he had not yet shown the potential to become a player of this level.