On February 15, Beijing time, the 2021-22 NBA regular season was in full swing. According to NBA official reports, President Xiao Hua announced that Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen will be selected as an All-Star and join James, which is the first time in Allen's career that he has been selected to the All-Star team.
Earlier today, the 76ers officially revealed that Harden will miss the All-Star game due to injury, so a place is vacated, so Xiao Hua chose Allen to replace. So far this season, Allen has made 49 Cavaliers appearances, averaging 16.2 points, 11.1 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.3 blocks per game, shooting 66.5% from the field. The Cavaliers currently have a record of 35 wins and 22 losses, ranking 3rd in the East.
As a result, the Cavaliers will have two All-Star players, and in addition to Allen, team guard Garland was named to the All-Star bench earlier, and he will also be a member of the James team. Looking at the entire league, the only teams that can have at least two All-Star players are the Warriors (Curry, Wiggins, Green), the Bulls (Lavin, DeRozan), the Bucks (Alphabet Brother, Middleton), the 76ers (Harden, Embiid), the Jazz (Gobert, Mitchell), and the Suns (Booker, Paul).
At the same time, Allen also became the second person for the Cavaliers to be named an All-Star in the past four years since James in 2018. It's important to know that since James left the Cavaliers in 2018, the team has been in the lower East and has not risen until this season under the leadership of many young players such as Allen.