{"id":164348,"date":"2019-02-08T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=164348"},"modified":"2019-02-08T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T19:24:31","slug":"nba-all-star-rosters-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=164348","title":{"rendered":"National Basketball Assoc. All-Star rosters, set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-142656\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NBAgeneric-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NBAgeneric-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NBAgeneric-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NBAgeneric.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The NBA All-Star game rosters are set following selections made by team captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo (YAH\u2019-nihs an-teh-toh-KOON\u2019-poh).<\/p>\n<p>James chose Kevin Durant with the first overall pick for the second straight year and picked former Cavaliers teammate Kyrie Irving. They\u2019ll be joined in the Team LeBron starting five by Kawhi (kah-WY\u2019) Leonard and James Harden.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo will start Stephen Curry, Joel Embiid (joh-EHL\u2019 ehm-BEED\u2019), Paul George and hometown favorite Kemba Walker for the Feb. 17 game in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>James took Anthony Davis among his reserves, along with Klay Thompson, Damian Lillard, Russell Westbrook, LaMarcus Aldridge, Karl-Anthony Towns and Bradley Beal. Antetokounmpo\u2019s bench had Milwaukee teammate Khris Middleton, Nikola Jokic (NEE\u2019-koh-lah-YOH\u2019-kihch), Ben Simmons, Blake Griffin, D\u2019Angelo Russell, Nikola Vucevic and Kyle Lowry. Simmons was subsequently sent to Team LeBron for Westbrook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The NBA All-Star game rosters are set following selections made by team captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo (YAH\u2019-nihs an-teh-toh-KOON\u2019-poh). James chose Kevin Durant with the first overall pick for the second straight year and picked former Cavaliers teammate Kyrie Irving. They\u2019ll be joined in the Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164363,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164348\/revisions\/164363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}