This time of year in the NBA, a lot of people start to talk about possible All-Star "locks" and "snubs."
Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, so many take to Twitter with their personal locks and snubs.This year is no different. As February 15th quickly approaches, fans, writers and analysts alike have weighed in on the topic -- the respected Marc Stein of ESPN included.
Do we agree there are 10 West locks? Starters: Kobe, Steph, Blake, Brow, MGasol. Subs: Harden, Russ, Dame, CP3 and that kid on a comeback KD
— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) January 21, 2015Yesterday, Stein asked Twitter nation a question and followed with a suggested answer. Yes, I really can't argue against any of these 10 players (even nERD (84.8). (For those of you unfamiliar, nERD is our in-house metric which is predictive of a team's ultimate winning percentage. For the Warriors, that would be 84.8%, or about 70 wins.) It's not hard to see that the Warriors have been the NBA's best team through forty games.
So, shouldn't the two best players (Curry and Thompson) on the very best team in the league make an appearance in the mid-season showcase in the Big Apple? Not always. But in this case, yes.
Klay Thompson is a top-10 player in the league right now, let alone a top five guard in the West. His nERD of 10.1 is good enough for 10th in the league and fifth among Western Conference guards -- behind only Basketball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/22/2015.