As I was reading a few articles on the ASG and the festivites surrounding it, I realized there were quite a few things that caught my eye. So, here's a list of the most interesting, unusual(probably worthless...) facts about the 2008 All-Star Weekend:
- The Rookie squad features three players who are 27-years old. The Sophomore squad's oldest player is Brandon Roy, who is 23.
- With 968 points through 50 games, Kevin Durant has already scored more total points in his rookie season than anybody on the Sophomore roster managed to put up last season.
- The rookie squad has players who have won a World Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal and a Euroleague championship. The biggest sophomore accomplishment is a toss-up between Jordan Farmar and his UCLA team getting blown out of the NCAA Title Game and Boobie Gibson's Cavs being swept by the Spurs in last year's Finals.
- Juan Carlos Navarro has played in 120 official with Spain's Senior National Team. 5 of the 9 sophomores have yet to play in 120 NBA regular season games.
- Luis Scola made his professional debut in 1996. His rookie teammate Kevin Durant was 7 years old.
- LeBron James is making his fourth ASG appearance at age 23. Rookie-Sophomore Challenge participants Brandon Roy, Luis Scola, Jamario Moon and Juan Carlos Navarro are older than him.
- Dirk Nowitzki is shooting 29.1% from three this year. Juan Carlos Navarro, Jordan Farmar, Rudy Gay and Andrea Bargnani are all shooting between 38 and 40%. Dirk is in the Three-Point Shootout, the other guys aren't.
- Rookie Al Horford averages 10 rebounds per game, more than All-Star forwards Carmelo Anthony (starter), LeBron James (starter), Kevin Garnett (starter), Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki, Amaré Stoudemire and David West.
- Jerry Stackhouse got more votes than Brandon Roy, but less than Baron Davis. Combine Roy's and Stackhouse's votes and you still wouldn't get to Baron Davis' votes. Roy is an All-Star, Davis isn't.
- Only three of the top 10 vote-getters play for teams beneath .600
- Andrew Bogut and Andrea Bargnani got more votes than Joe Johnson.
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