From Stefan Bondy:
For the first time in nearly a half-century, the Knicks have two All-Star starters.
Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns were both named on the Eastern Conference squad for the Feb. 16 game in San Francisco, the NBA announced.
The other East starters are predictably and deservedly Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell. The West starters are Nikola Jokic, Steph Curry, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
Wow, how fucking cool is that? Congrats to Brunson and KAT!
Amusingly, it’s only been 12 years since the Knicks last had an All-Star center, as Tyson Chandler made it in 2013.
Very cool news.
Of course, annoyingly, the format this year is weird and dumb, and so Brunson and KAT won’t even be teammates. Booooo.
But that’s not important right now, right now it is just important to congratulate the two on an honor well earned!
9 replies on “NY Post: Karl-Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson accomplish Knicks All-Star feat not seen in 50 years”
Fuck Yeah.
This is such happy news! If LaMelo got it over Brunson, that would have been an infamia…same with Dame.
Celts got their asses whupped by the LeBlakers. Even Bronny got some run!
Wouldn’t it be nice if a Knick could be first team All-NBA?
I was just thinking that either Brunson or KAT (or both) might make second team, and that would be awesome, of course, but man, imagine if they had a first team-level guy!
There hasn’t been a Knick on the first team All-NBA since Ewing, and there have only been five Knicks to make the first team period.
I don’t think it is any coincidence that the last time the Knicks had a player consistently make the first team (Clyde) was also the only time that the Knicks were consistent title contenders.
And their last first team player, Ewing, was also the last time that they were legit title contenders year in and year out for a nice stretch.
Now I am going to dream up scenarios where Giannis ends up in New York…
That said, I will settle for the Knicks having two second team All-NBA guys! They haven’t had two guys on the 2nd team or better since 1971, when Clyde and Willis were both second team (the previous year, Clyde and Willis were both first team, which is just insane).
They’re almost certainly going to have two guys on the All-NBA team period, which they haven’t had since Melo and Chandler in 2012, so that’s pretty cool, in and of itself.
Congrats to Brunson and KAT, it’s well deserved! 👏👏👏
Brian, can you delete the Morning News thread? To have everybody commenting on this one.
This would be amazing, and this is why i don’t understand all the movement that we’re screwed and have no chance at a title. If i remember correctly we needed superstars, and not depth, now that we have it, what we need is what we had? People must make up their minds, you either want one or the other, as depth with superstars is very hard to get given the rules of the CBA.
FWIW, and I’ve said this a few times, I am only talking about this year. I think forecasting beyond the current season is silly. There are just too many variables.
This year, because the Bridges trade capped us at the first apron and OG’s contract put us right up against it, we can see quite clearly how limited the options for improvement are.
But come the offseason, things will be much different. You can do Aller magic in the offseason. And I believe strongly in what ptmilo dubbed the ebb and flow of franchise tides. This year feels very much like a low tide season for us. But I don’t think it says much about our prospects for next year. I’m actually pretty excited about next year for us. I think that will be a high tide season for us and a low one for Boston and Cleveland. We do have to get there in one piece, though, and Thibs is starting to scare me about that.