All-Star Starters Announced

February 3, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors

With the emergence of up and coming stars, guys like Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett are no longer fixtures in this game. Yesterday, the all-star starters were announced and youth rules.

From Kobe Bryant to Chris Paul, Blake Griffin to Andrew Bynum, the NBA All-Star game is shaping up as an L.A. story.

Two Lakers and two Clippers were voted as starters Thursday for the game, the first time in 15 years that two pairs of teammates have been voted to start for one conference.

Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant prevented a clean Los Angeles sweep of the Western Conference starting lineup by earning a forward spot for the Feb. 26 game in Orlando.

Dwight Howard of the host Magic—unless he’s traded first—was the overall leading vote-getter with 1.6 million. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are going together again from Miami, while MVP Derrick Rose of Chicago and New York’s Carmelo Anthony round out the East starters.

Source: AP on Yahoo!