There wasn’t a lot of Golden State Warriors’ presence at All-Star Weekend. Steph Curry was out injured. Klay Thompson retired from the Three-Point Contest after 2018. Even an army of K-Pop fans couldn’t get Andrew Wiggins into the game after he missed a month. And Jonathan Kuminga was cruelly snubbed from the Rising Stars Game.
Who did play in Salt Lake City? The No. 55 pick in the 2022 Draft, Gui Santos, who was voted into the G League’s Next Up Game by the fans. We are not aware of any internet campaign mobilized by an Asian boy band member, so it has to be the fans noticed Santos’ rapid improvement this year.