There are a number of new faces in the 2022 NBA All-Star Game, including Morant and Wiggins, who are the first All-Star in their NBA careers. Unlike Wiggins, who sharpened a sword in 9 years, the third-year Morant is even more exciting, and his Grizzlies are well known for their leaps and bounds this season, and as a six-foot guard, he has become the king of the NBA penalty area this season!
As the 2019 top performer, Morant averaged 17.8 points and 7.3 assists per game in 67 regular season games of the rookie season with 47.7% shooting, and was unanimously elected in the best rookie selection with only one vote out of 100 votes, which was higher than the total scores of Stephen Curry and Chris Paul in the All-Star vote of the year!
Last season' Morant once again missed the All-Star game, when many people complained for him, believing that it should not be Mike Conley but Morant to replace the injured Devin Booker, and this season Morant made himself an All-Star starter through his own efforts and progress. In 46 regular season games so far this season, Morant averaged 26.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and 6.9 assists per game with 49.5 percent shooting, leading the Grizzlies to third place in the league with a 41-19 record, three more games than the first team in the East, and three more games than the entire season last season before All-Star Weekend.
Morant is expected to become the first player in the history of the Grizzlies to average 25+ points per game in a single season in the regular season, and his beautiful personal data is supported by excellent team records, and the third-year Morant is well-deserved to become an All-Star starter. It may not be a lot of people watching the Grizzlies this season, but it's an indisputable fact that this six-foot guard is already the top scorer in the NBA's restricted area this season.
So far this season, Morant has averaged 16.4 points per game in the penalty area in 33.2 minutes in 46 regular-season games, the highest average of any player in the league in the box, 1.0 points more than the second-place alphabet brother. It is worth mentioning that only Morant is a non-inside player among the top 10 players in the league's average penalty area scoring list so far this season, and since the 1996-97 NBA official has a complete number of players scoring in the penalty area, no season has the highest average penalty area scorer per game is the guard!
At only 22 years old, Morant can score, pass, defend, and perform in key moments without ambiguity, the All-Star starter is just his new starting point, and his future is really promising!