Celtics Lead the Way in All Star Game

Four Boston Celtic players led the coaches’ reserve selections for the Eastern Conference team. They are due to play against the Western conference team, in the All Star game on February 20, at the Los Angeles Staples Center.

Kevin Garnett, with his record-breaking 14 selections in a row as an All-Star reserve, made the team, along with team mates Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo, and Paul Pierce. The Celtics join the Detroit Pistons as the only other team to have four players selected as reserves for the All-Star mid season game, according to ESPN. Other players chosen as reserves are Al Horford and Joe Johnson of Atlanta, and Miami’s Chris Bosh.

The Eastern team will have as starters, chosen by fan voting; Orlando’ Dwight Howard, Miami’s LeBron James and Dwayne Wade, Chicago’s Derrick Rose, Knicks’ Stoudemire. For the Western team, the starter winners are Hornets’ Chris Paul and Denver’s Carmelo Anthony, the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, Houston’s Yao Ming, and Kevin Durant of Oklahoma City.

Dallas’s Dirk Nowitzki, Clippers’ rookie Blake Griffin, Pau Gasol of the L.A Lakers, Deron Williams of Utah, Oklahoma’s Westbrook, San Antonio’s Manu Ginobli and Tim Duncan for his thirteenth straight selection, were picked as all-star reserves for the Western Conference team, according to the All Star roster at NBA.com.

The Eastern team will be coached by Celtics’ Doc Rivers, and he hoped to win by playing his four players together on the team, “That way we can run offense in the All-Star game,” he added, “That’d be a first,” according to ESPN.

The Western team will be led by San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, he said of picking Western Conference reserves, “It was difficult…When we sat down, there were a lot of great names to choose from. At every position, you leave someone out.”

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