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Tim BontempsESPN
The NBA on Tuesday evening unveiled the rosters for this month’s Rising Stars Problem, which featured the presence of G League Ignite gamers for the primary time.
4 prime prospects taking part in for the Ignite — Jaden Hardy, Dyson Daniels, Scoot Henderson and MarJon Beauchamp — joined 12 gamers from every of the 2020 and 2021 NBA draft lessons in making up the 28 gamers who will take part within the league’s annual showcase for its stars of tomorrow as a part of All-Star Weekend in Cleveland.
Beauchamp (14th total), Daniels (sixteenth) and Hardy (seventeenth) are all projected to go within the prime 20 of this 12 months’s NBA draft by ESPN’s Jonathan Givony and Mike Schmitz, who additionally at present have Henderson projected to go second total in 2023. All 4 prospects are a part of the league’s initiative to have among the finest future prospects skip taking part in faculty basketball and ply their trades within the G League for a season — like Jalen Inexperienced, the second total choose by the Houston Rockets within the 2021 draft, did within the Ignite program’s first 12 months.
Inexperienced was certainly one of 12 rookies named to the Rising Stars Problem, which could have a brand new wrinkle this season. Reasonably than two groups taking part in a standard recreation, there as an alternative can be 4 groups made up of seven-man rosters, with the winners of two semifinal video games to 50 factors taking part in a championship recreation that can go to 25, a nod to the league celebrating its seventy fifth anniversary this season.
In addition to Inexperienced, the opposite rookies chosen have been: Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham, the highest total choose in July’s draft; Cleveland Cavaliers ahead Evan Mobley (third); Toronto Raptors ahead Scottie Barnes (fourth); Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs (fifth) and ahead Franz Wagner (eighth); Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder guard Josh Giddey (sixth); Sacramento Kings guard Davion Mitchell (ninth); Indiana Pacers guard Chris Duarte (thirteenth); Rockets heart Alperen Sengun (sixteenth); New Orleans Pelicans ahead Herb Jones (thirty fifth); and Chicago Bulls guard Ayo Dosunmu (thirty eighth).
The sophomores chosen included Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards, the highest total choose within the 2020 draft, together with teammate Jaden McDaniels; Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball; Magic guard Cole Anthony; Philadelphia 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey; Kings guard Tyrese Haliburton; Cavaliers guard Isaac Okoro; Rockets ahead Jae’Sean Tate; Pistons ahead Saddiq Bey and heart Isaiah Stewart; Memphis Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane; and Raptors heart Valuable Achiuwa.
The 4 groups can be coached by Corridor of Famers Rick Barry, Gary Payton, Isiah Thomas and James Worthy, together with an assistant coach from the East and West teaching staffs chosen to take part within the All-Star Sport this season.
The Rising Stars Problem will happen Feb. 18, kicking off All-Star Weekend. The annual Saturday evening occasions — together with the abilities problem, 3-point competitors and slam dunk contest — will happen the next evening, with the All-Star Sport being held Feb. 20.