Each season, 22 gamers get to go to the NBA All-Star recreation. In a league that options roughly 450 gamers that’s an extremely small quantity, and a few gamers simply by no means make it.
At present, CJ McCollum and Jamal Murray, for instance, are among the high gamers nonetheless ready for his or her All-Star nod. For McCollum, time may be working out, however Murray nonetheless has a few years left to get there.
There are numerous others, nevertheless, who already completed their careers and regardless of placing collectively spectacular resumes by no means made an All-Star workforce. So, let’s have a look at the six finest gamers who by no means fairly crossed the border into All-Star territory.
Non-All-Star #6: Rod Strickland
From 1988 to 2005, Rod Strickland performed for 9 NBA groups and averaged profession numbers of 13.2 factors, 3.7 rebounds, 7.3 assists, and 1.5 steals. A few of his finest seasons had been in 1994-95 with the Portland Path Blazers (18.9 factors, 5 rebounds, 8.8 assists, and 1.4 steals) and in 1997-98 with Washington (17.8 factors, 5.3 rebounds, 10.5 assists, and 1.7 steals). Within the latter season, he led the league in assists and made the All-NBA Second Group however was not voted an All-Star.
There have been loads of alternatives for him to make it. From the 1989-90 season all the way in which to the 1999-2000 season, Strickland averaged double-digits and over 7 assists each season. This isn’t one thing lots of gamers do, and he would have deserved a minimum of one All-Star nod throughout that point.
There have been already lots of guards within the All-Star dialog at the moment, nevertheless, and Strickland simply by no means made the reduce. Between Michael Jordan, Isiah Thomas, John Stockton, Clyde Drexler, and later Reggie Miller and Penny Hardaway, amongst others, Strickland obtained misplaced. This isn’t to say that he was extra deserving than any of those gamers. He merely had robust competitors to face on the guard spot and by no means obtained voted to an All-Star workforce regardless of placing up numbers that may warrant a variety.
