Tag: All-Star Game

Top 10 3-point shooters in Notre Dame women’s basketball history

Who has most hit from downtown in Irish history?

Several months back, former Notre Dame guard [autotag]Jackie Young[/autotag] advanced to the finals of the annual WNBA 3-Point Contest. But nobody was going to beat Sabrina Ionescu, whose final-round score of 37 was higher than even the highest score ever recorded in the NBA version of the contest. Almost immediately, many wondered how Ionescu would favor in a shootout with NBA 3-point king Stephen Curry.

This past NBA All-Star Weekend, fans got their wish. It was the highlight of the weekend with Curry needing the final rack to beat Ionescu, 29-26. There are hopes that something like this can continue next year and beyond, especially with women’s basketball increasing in popularity.

While we contemplate the future of women’s basketball and only can guess what it holds, we know who’s helped lay the groundwork for that future. Among them are the top 3-point shooters in Notre Dame history. Since 3-pointers are the latest thing to bring male and female basketball players together, let’s see who rounds out the top 10 for the Irish:

Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics are the talk of the town at All-Star weekend

You may have noticed that there has been a lot of Boston Celtics-inflected stuff going on at the 2024 NBA All-Star Week’s proceedings.

You may have noticed that there has been a lot of Boston Celtics-inflected stuff going on at the 2024 NBA All-Star Week’s proceedings. That is largely due to the fact that the Celtics happen to be owners of the best record in the league and are favorites to win it all this summer.

For that to happen, they do of course have to play the games, but from the 2024 NBA Dunk Contest to the All-Star Game itself, Celtics players like Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown were ubiquitous. To talk it over, NBC Sports Boston’s Chris Forsberg linked up with former Celtics champion center Kendrick Perkins.

Perk and Forsberg get into all things Celtics and All-Star, the state of the MVP race (and where Tatum is in it), the impact of Kristaps Porzingis and more.

Check it out above!

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Every Boston Celtics All-Star for each season the game was played

Every single Boston Celtics All-Star in franchise history.

The 2024 NBA All-Star Game is set to kick off in Indianapolis, Indiana. A pair of Boston Celtics will be part of the action for the third year in a row as Jayson Tatum plays as a starter and Jaylen Brown a reserve for the Eastern Conference All-Stars.

Tatum and Brown join a long list of Celtics stars who have participated in the event, now entering its 73rd year of existence, which actually got its start in the old Boston Garden. Initially created to improve the image of professional basketball after a point-shaving scandal in NCAA ball besmirched the sport in the eyes of the public, the event has taken on a life of its own as one of the league’s most anticipated events.

Let’s take a look at all the Celtics who have taken part.

Every Boston Celtics head coach of an All-Star game in NBA history

A total of seven Celtics coaches have earned the right to coach the All-Star game by owning the East’s best record that season.

About a year ago, the Boston Celtics were poised to make history by sending the first interim coach to helm the NBA’s 2023 All-Star Game, which is why the Celtics will not be having Mazzulla coaching the 2024 All-Star Game.

The rules prohibit repeat performances in that role, sending the nod to a Boston coaching alumnus in Doc Rivers (now with the Milwaukee Bucks) instead, who coached the game himself as Celtics head coach in 2008. With all of that in mind, let’s take a look at the Boston alumni who have done the same over the course of the event’s long history. A total of seven Celtics coaches have earned the right to coach the All-Star game by owning the East’s best record that season.

Let’s take a look at who they were and the seasons that it happened in.

Are the Chicago Bulls set to have another post-All-Star Game collapse?

Could this be the second season in a row that the Bulls fall apart in the stretch run after the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Week?

Are the Chicago Bulls set to have another post-All-Star Game collapse? After a puzzling decision to stand pat at the NBA’s 2024 trade deadline, the Bulls are evidently hoping that continuity and improving health power the ball club forward for the remainder of the league’s 2023-24 season.

But internal growth in this sport is rarely linear, and the rest of the Association’s Eastern Conference teams have, by and large, also gotten better while Chicago has stood still. Could this be the second season in a row that the Bulls fall apart in the stretch run after the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Week?

Or might Chicago have aplan in place to add talent via the buyout market to help fuel a second-half resurgence for the Bulls?

Haize, the host of the “Chicago Bulls Central” podcast, took some time to talk over how the end of the season for the Bulls might go on a recent episode. Check it out above!

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Reaction: Alperen Sengun misses out on 2024 NBA All-Star honors

Alperen Sengun wasn’t named to the list of Western Conference reserves for the 2024 NBA All-Star Game. Here’s how Rockets fans and media reacted to the news.

Entering Thursday, Alperen Sengun is the leader of a much-improved Houston Rockets team (22-25) in points (21.9), rebounds (9.2) and shooting percentage (54.1%) on a per-game basis. But at least for now, that won’t be enough to earn 2024 NBA All-Star honors.

Sengun, 21, wasn’t among the seven Western Conference reserves announced on Thursday night. His closest frontcourt competitors to make the team were Karl-Anthony Towns of the Timberwolves and Anthony Davis of the Lakers, and both have much more experience.

While Sengun finished No. 5 overall among West frontcourt players (and well ahead of Towns) in fan voting, fan votes were only considered in determining All-Star starters. In contrast, reserves were solely determined by voting ballots from each team’s coaching staff.

With his big-man competitors having longer NBA track records and playing for teams with better win-loss records, that may have given them more exposure to coaches around the league. Keep in mind, Sengun is in just his third season, and the Rockets have played only one game all season on national television.

Sengun could potentially be added to the West All-Star team at a later date, should there be an injury withdrawal or two. The game is scheduled to take place on Sunday, Feb. 18 in Indianapolis.

For now, here’s how media members and fans following the Rockets responded to Thursday’s disappointing news on social media.

NBA Twitter reacts to biggest All-Star snubs: ‘The NBA is super talented right now’

Here’s how NBA Twitter reacted to the 2024 All-Star Game snubs.

The 2024 NBA All-Star Game reserves have just been announced. And as per normal, fans have already selected the biggest All-Star snubs.

Here’s how NBA Twitter reacted to James Harden, Rudy Gobert, Domantas Sabonis among other players not making the roster.

NBA All-Star: The weirdest player votes this season

Let’s go ahead with the yearly exercise of checking out which players who have no business receiving All-Star votes actually received some from peers not serious about the whole process. Aside from the usual suspects (like Thanasis Antetokounmpo), …

Let’s go ahead with the yearly exercise of checking out which players who have no business receiving All-Star votes actually received some from peers not serious about the whole process.

Aside from the usual suspects (like Thanasis Antetokounmpo), the list includes five players who have not logged a single minute in the NBA this season.

Rockets’ Alperen Sengun rises to No. 5 in final All-Star fan vote

In an impressive finish, Rockets star Alperen Sengun had the fifth-most 2024 NBA All-Star votes among Western Conference frontcourt players.

Among Western Conference frontcourt players, Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun finished fifth in 2024 All-Star fan voting, according to Thursday’s final voting tally from the NBA.

Sengun is the only Houston player who finished the top 10 of fan voting for either frontcourt or backcourt players in the West. The third-year Turkish sensation clearly made an impression among fan voters, who placed him ahead of marquee names such as Los Angeles Clippers stars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, as well as highly touted San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama.

The only frontcourt players ahead of Sengun are future Hall of Famers: LeBron James and Anthony Davis of the Lakers; Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets; and Kevin Durant of the Phoenix Suns.

The fan vote accounted for half of the voting that determined 2024 All-Star starters. Players make up 25%, as does a panel of media members. Sengun finished 11th in player and media voting (results).

Ultimately, to no surprise, James, Durant and Jokic earned the three starting frontcourt spots in the West.

However, Sengun could qualify as a reserve. Those announcements are expected to be made on Thursday, Feb. 1. All 30 NBA head coaches are given a ballot to select three frontcourt players, two backcourt players and two wild-card picks from each conference.

If selected, a reserve could become a starter this year, should one of the starters be injured or choose not to participate. The 2024 NBA All-Star Game will be held on Feb. 18 in Indianapolis.

Just 21 years old and in his third NBA season, Sengun is averaging 22.1 points (54.1% FG), 9.2 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.2 steals in 32.8 minutes. As a team, Houston (20-23) has slightly overachieved relative to its win-loss record expectations, and that could bolster the All-Star case for its best player during a breakout campaign.

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Celtics Lab 237: Predicting how many Boston Celtics will be East NBA All-Stars with Chris Forsberg

Based on the earlier rounds of returns, it’s looking all but certain that the Celtics will end up with at least two All-Stars in 2024 – but could they get more?

With the final returns from the annual fan vote for the league’s starters in the 2024 NBA All-Star Game set to go down in Indianapolis, Indiana in the month of February and the reserves selected by league coaches, we will soon get an answer to how many Boston Celtics will suit up for the annual exhibition tilt.

Based on the earlier rounds of returns, it’s looking all but certain that the Celtics will end up with at least two All-Stars in 2024. But the possibility of three or even four is on the table for Boston with a little luck.

To try to get an idea of what we can expect for the Association’s 2024 East All-Stars (and how many Boston players will be included), the hosts of CLNS Media’s “Celtics Lab” podcast got together with NBC Sports Boston’s Chris Forsberg to try to prognosticate the 12-man roster for the East.

We also get into the latest trade buzz, and look back on Boston’s recent spate of excellent play (with a hiccup in Denver, of course).

The Celtics Lab podcast is brought to you by FanDuel.

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