{"id":457137,"date":"2026-02-04T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457137\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T05:02:08","slug":"nba-makes-major-decision-after-kawhi-leonards-all-star-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457137\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA makes major decision after Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s All-Star snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard is having an excellent season, but he was surprisingly not named to the All-Star team. <\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/kawhi-leonard-all-star-snub\/739139\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fans were upset about Leonard\u2019s All-Star snub<\/a>, things changed on Tuesday. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver named Leonard an addition to the U.S. player pool for the All-Star Game. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LA Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard has been named by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver as an addition to the U.S. player pool for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DBjfA70Mf2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DBjfA70Mf2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2018829487186788772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 3, 2026<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s All-Star Game is in a new format. It features two teams of U.S. players and one team of international players, which will compete in a round-robin tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Leonard was initially left off the roster despite averaging 27.6 points with 6.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 36 games this season. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2b50\ufe0f The 2026 NBA All-Stars \u2b50\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DaOg0TW1Fp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DaOg0TW1Fp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2018106303860637925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2018829829089681598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania<\/a>, Leonard\u2019s addition brings the U.S. player total up to 16, which is the minimum required for the new format. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s All-Star Game is taking place at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif., which is the brand-new home of the Clippers, making Leonard\u2019s absence from the initial roster selection even more surprising. <\/p>\n<p>This will be the seventh All-Star appearance for Leonard during his career. <\/p>\n<p>Now, Leonard is officially an All-Star, and the teams will be selected on Tuesday night with the game set for Feb. 15. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard is having an excellent season, but he was surprisingly not named to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,1175,7236,93338,85],"class_list":["post-457137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}