Ranking the Biggest Snubs From Final 2024 NBA All-Star Rosters

All-Star reserves were announced on TNT’s Inside the NBA on Thursday, and there wasn’t a ton of big surprises.

In the East, Jaylen Brown, Donovan Mitchell, Jalen Brunson, Bam Adebayo, Julius Randle, Tyrese Maxey and Paolo Banchero received the honor.

Out West, it was Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis, Devin Booker, Anthony Edwards, Stephen Curry, Paul George and Karl-Anthony Towns.

But of course, no one’s going to agree entirely with either of those lists. Snubs are an annual and instant topic of conversation on this night. And this year, there are plenty of guys who at least have cases.

There’s no single, definitive way to pick or react to All-Stars. But if you sort every qualified player in the league by the average of their ranks in the most readily available catch-all metrics, Towns, Randle, Brown, Adebayo and Banchero are all outside the top 30.

Among players who weren’t named as All-Stars tonight, there are 11 across the league who are in the top 30: Domantas Sabonis, Lauri Markkanen, James Harden, Alperen Şengün, Chet Holmgren, Trae Young, Scottie Barnes, Kristaps Porziņģis, Victor Wembanyama, Kyrie Irving and De’Aaron Fox.

That feels like a pretty good group to start with when it comes to potential or outright snubs.

With that exercise, other individual numbers, team success and subjectivity as our guides, we’ll look at this year’s biggest snubs.

But before we do, a word on those who were picked.

Arguing for one player’s inclusion obviously implies that someone else shouldn’t be. That’s just the nature of this debate. But it’s worth mentioning that every player who was actually named to the team, at the very least, has a case.

There are no bad calls from the coaches here. The NBA is packed with talent, and there just happens to be another dozen or so with their own convincing arguments.

Jamal Murray: Some sort of assumed Murray making his first All-Star game in 2024 was a given after his historic 2023 playoff run, but 13 missed games in November and December may have cost him.

Pascal Siakam: He’s ahead of Randle, Brown, Adebayo and Banchero in the aforementioned catch-all exercise, but spending most of the season on the sub-.500 Toronto Raptors may have impacted his case.

De’Aaron Fox: Fox got off to a hot start, but his numbers have tailed off a bit of late, and the Sacramento Kings no longer have the breakout factor boosting their notoriety.

Victor Wembanyama: The West is absolutely loaded this season, so arguing for any rookie to make the game is tough. But Wembanyama is averaging 24.2 points 9.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 3.4 blocks in just 26.4 minutes over his last 16 games.

Scottie Barnes: Barnes has been one of the game’s best defenders, and his 5.8 assists suggest he’s ready to be a lead…