LOS ANGELES — For years, they watched the All-Star Weekend festivities together. Frank Ntilikina’s older brothers, Brice and Yves, would wake him up in the middle of the night and they would crowd around the television in their mother’s apartment in Strasbourg, France.
When All-Star Weekend kicks off Friday night with the Rising Stars Challenge, the family will be scattered. Brice and Yves will be watching again from France, their mother, Jacqueline, will be in the stands at Staples Center, and Ntilikina, a rookie point guard with the Knicks, will be on the court for the World Team in a game that features the league’s most promising young players.