The Lakers’ backcourt of the future has been recognized as such by the rest of the league, as Jordan Clarkson and D’Angelo Russell were selected to the Rising Stars Challenge on Wednesday.
Voted in by the league’s assistant coaches, the duo will become the eighth and ninth Lakers to ever represent in the game, which will be held at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on Feb. 12.
“I think it says that a lot of people see a lot of promise in them; that they’ve had a pretty good season so far,” head coach Byron Scott said at Wednesday’s practice.