{"id":467389,"date":"2026-02-11T05:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467389\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:37:08","slug":"mitch-johnson-says-2-seed-spurs-shouldve-had-more-all-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467389\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Johnson says 2-seed Spurs should’ve had more All-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim MacMahonFeb 10, 2026, 10:31 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES — Nobody asked San Antonio Spurs<\/a> coach Mitch Johnson for his opinion about his team having only a single All-Star, but he offered his take anyway during his pregame media availability Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

“I do think it’s very interesting that De’Aaron Fox<\/a> and Stephon Castle<\/a> have not been named an All-Star,” Johnson said at the end of his media session before the Spurs’ road game against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. “So I’ll answer that question that wasn’t asked. But seven teams in this league have multiple All-Stars, and we’ve played pretty good against a lot of the top teams in this league.”<\/p>\n

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Johnson’s pointed comments came hours after Toronto’s Brandon Ingram<\/a> was named as an injury replacement for Golden State’s Stephen Curry<\/a>. Ingram, who joins Raptors teammate Scottie Barnes<\/a> as an All-Star, is averaging 22.0 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game.<\/p>\n

Fox, a one-time All-Star, is averaging 19.5 points, 4.0 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game. Castle is averaging 17.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game and has earned a reputation as one of the league’s most tenacious perimeter defenders.<\/p>\n

The Spurs, whose lone All-Star is center Victor Wembanyama<\/a>, have the NBA’s third-best record (36-16 entering Tuesday night) and the best mark among teams that don’t have multiple All-Stars.<\/p>\n

“Nothing to take away from anybody who has been named an All-Star, because they have a lot of great players,” Johnson said. “But the only way I can think we are deserving of [only] one All-Star means there must be an awful lot of people that have Victor Wembanyama as one of the front-runners for MVP. So thanks for asking.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonFeb 10, 2026, 10:31 PM ET CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-467389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}