Through that lens, the voters missed on a couple high-profile marks by naming Curry, James and Durant as starters over Anthony Edwards and Victor Wembanyama, both of whom deserved the starter distinction. As noted, two guards have to be named in each conference, so that makes the first one of these debates sort of easy:

On Thursday night, the 2025 NBA All-Star starters were announced on TNT's "Inside the NBA." As always, two types of reactions were predominant among NBA fans: Celebrating the players who made the cut and bemoaning the players who were supposedly snubbed.