{"id":123190,"date":"2025-02-10T19:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=123190"},"modified":"2025-02-10T19:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:18:29","slug":"mavs-all-star-kyrie-irving-anthony-davis-injury-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/10\/mavs-all-star-kyrie-irving-anthony-davis-injury-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs Land Another All-Star Amid Anthony Davis Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks fan base isn&#8217;t feeling too well these days.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/doncilu01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luka Doncic<\/a> for good, possibly. They&#8217;ve lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisan02.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Davis<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/10\/anthony-davis-injury-report-better-than-sounds-mavs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">up to a month<\/a>. At this point, they might just lose their minds.<\/p>\n<h2>Mavs&#8217; Kyrie Irving Lands All-Star Selection Amid Anthony Davis Injury<\/h2>\n<p>If it&#8217;s any consolation, the Mavs still have an All-Star. With Davis now ruled out for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has selected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/irvinky01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> to replace him. This marks Irving&#8217;s ninth All-Star selection, the most in the 2011 NBA Draft class. In fact, no other member of the 2011 NBA Draft class has more than six All-Star selections. In 2014, Irving was named the All-Star Game MVP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving has been named by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to replace injured Mavericks forward-center Anthony Davis on Team Shaq in the 2025 NBA All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>This is the ninth NBA All-Star selection for Irving, who is averaging 24.1 points, 4.6\u2026 <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LQ6Mmd1Np9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LQ6Mmd1Np9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1889083294513348707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Notably, Silver bases his injury replacement picks on the player who has the next most votes among coaches. Earlier on Monday, that same process led to Atlanta Hawks guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/y\/youngtr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Young<\/a> being named as Milwaukee Bucks forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/antetgi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>&#8216;s replacement. Irving will play for Team Shaq (selected by Hall of Fame center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/onealsh01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaquille O&#8217;Neal<\/a>) while Young will play for Team Chuck (selected by Hall of Fame forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/barklch01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles Barkley<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This season, the former No. 1 pick is averaging 24.1 points, 4.8 assists, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.3 steals per game on .475-.407-.901 shooting splits. One of the most cunning players in the league, his scoring average ranks 16th among all players in 2024-25. In an event where the defense has been criticized, Irving may not be the player to look to. However, the showmanship and competitiveness that he&#8217;s put on display throughout his career will help electrify the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<h3>All-Star Games?<\/h3>\n<p>Interestingly, Team Shaq is littered with older American stars. A relatively young American player in Boston Celtics forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/tatumja01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jayson Tatum<\/a> (26) is on O&#8217;Neal&#8217;s roster as well. Nonetheless, Irving&#8217;s age (32) is in line with the thinking of those who see the All-Star Teams as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/07\/nba-all-star-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">separated by age and nationality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s Team Chuck, which largely features international players. Even Cleveland Cavaliers guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mitchdo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> (Panamanian) and New York Knicks forward-center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/t\/townska01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> (Dominican) are of mixed descent. With that being said, if the plan was to pit different demographics against each other, Young might junk that plan up a little bit. He&#8217;s an American, through and through.<\/p>\n<div class=\"modal-image-setImageMetadata\">\n<p class=\"ng-binding\">\u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks fan base isn&#8217;t feeling too well these days. They&#8217;ve lost Luka Doncic for good, possibly. They&#8217;ve lost Anthony Davis for up to a month. At this point, they might just lose their minds. Mavs&#8217; Kyrie Irving Lands All-Star Selection Amid Anthony Davis Injury If it&#8217;s any consolation, the Mavs still have an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":123196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4,1608,62,3],"tags":[1006,406,639,2815,261,1349],"class_list":["post-123190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mavericks","category-hawks","category-basketball","category-nba","category-news","tag-charles-barkley","tag-kyrie-irving","tag-nba-all-star","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-shaquille-oneal","tag-trae-young"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123197,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123190\/revisions\/123197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}