Kings standout Sabonis snubbed from 2025 NBA All-Star Game

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Kings standout Sabonis snubbed from 2025 NBA All-Star Game originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Despite the 2025 NBA All-Star Game being down the road from Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center, no Kings players will suit up to represent the Western Conference next month in San Francisco.

Kings star center Domantas Sabonis was snubbed as a Western Conference reserve for the league’s annual event, set for Feb. 16 at Chase Center.

The seven reserves for both the Western and Eastern Conferences were announced during TNT’s “NBA Tip-Off” on Thursday, and the crew discussed Sabonis being left off the list.

“I think [the Kings] started too slow,” Kenny Smith said. “That might’ve hurt his chances.”

Sacramento began the season 13-18 before firing Mike Brown and promoting Doug Christie as interim head coach, a change that has helped them turn things around and salvage their season before it was fully lost.

But if there’s been one constant throughout the campaign, it has been Sabonis.

The Lithuanian big man is putting up Wilt Chamberlain-like numbers on a nightly basis this season, averaging 20.9 points on 61.0-percent shooting from the field and 48.1 percent from 3-point range, with 14.5 rebounds and 6.6 assists in 36.3 minutes through 44 games.

He recently joined Chamberlain as the only other player in NBA history to finish with at least 20 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists while shooting 80 percent from the field in Sacramento’s 110-96 win over the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center.

Sabonis leads the league in both rebounds and double-doubles.

“That’s an All-Star right there,” Shaquille O’Neal said.

San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb, a Rocklin native and diehard Kings fan, was in disbelief that Sabonis was left off the Western Conference All-Star roster.

How tf did Sabonis not make the All Star team?? What a joke @NBA

— Logan Webb (@LoganWebb1053) January 30, 2025

Sabonis is a three-time All-Star, twice with the Indiana Pacers and once with the Kings.

He is just one of two players to average 20-plus points, 10-plus rebounds and five-plus assists per game and not be named an All-Star, per Underdog…

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Publish date : 2025-01-30 16:09:00

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