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ShadowHawke wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 05, 2025 8:20 am

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John Shumate

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The Bobster wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 05, 2025 8:33 am

BTW - I ran accross this picture of Joe Proski's van from the 1970s.

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Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:36 pm

WEEK 1 TRIVIA - ALL-STAR SNUBS

SUNS QUESTION
This Suns player was named All-NBA while playing for the Suns, but was not selevted to the Western Conference All-Star team that year. He was named to an All-Star Game later in his career however.

NBA QUESTION
These three NBA players were named All-NBA but were never selected for the NBA All-Star Game during their entire careers.

BONUS QUESTION
Nine players have scored over 15,000 career regular season points but have never player in an NBA All-Star Game. Who are they? Hints: The top two played part of their careers for the Suns and none of the nine are active.

The Bobster wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:36 pm

WEEK 1 TRIVIA - ALL-STAR SNUBS

SUNS QUESTION
This Suns player was named All-NBA while playing for the Suns, but was not selevted to the Western Conference All-Star team that year. He was named to an All-Star Game later in his career however.

NBA QUESTION
These three NBA players were named All-NBA but were never selected for the NBA All-Star Game during their entire careers.

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Drazen Petrovic is, unfortunately, one of the easy answers for me here, as the Autobahn cut his career and life short

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BONUS QUESTION
Nine players have scored over 15,000 career regular season points but have never player in an NBA All-Star Game. Who are they? Hints: The top two played part of their careers for the Suns and none of the nine are active.

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Sat Dec 06, 2025 5:55 pm

The Bobster wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:36 pm

WEEK 1 TRIVIA - ALL-STAR SNUBS

SUNS QUESTION
This Suns player was named All-NBA while playing for the Suns, but was not selevted to the Western Conference All-Star team that year. He was named to an All-Star Game later in his career however.

NBA QUESTION
These three NBA players were named All-NBA but were never selected for the NBA All-Star Game during their entire careers.

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Drazen Petrovic is, unfortunately, one of the easy answers for me here, as the Autobahn cut his career and life short

.

BONUS QUESTION
Nine players have scored over 15,000 career regular season points but have never player in an NBA All-Star Game. Who are they? Hints: The top two played part of their careers for the Suns and none of the nine are active.

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Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:42 pm

The Bobster wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:36 pm

WEEK 1 TRIVIA - ALL-STAR SNUBS

SUNS QUESTION
This Suns player was named All-NBA while playing for the Suns, but was not selevted to the Western Conference All-Star team that year. He was named to an All-Star Game later in his career however.

NBA QUESTION
These three NBA players were named All-NBA but were never selected for the NBA All-Star Game during their entire careers.

BONUS QUESTION
Nine players have scored over 15,000 career regular season points but have never player in an NBA All-Star Game. Who are they? Hints: The top two played part of their careers for the Suns and none of the nine are active.

Answer to your Suns question (spoiler tag for those that might still want to work through it):

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It's Kevin Johnson. His first full year with the Suns in 1988-89, he was named 2nd team All-NBA but was not on the All-Star roster. This happened again (after he had been named an All-Star a couple of times) in 1991-92 (3rd team All-NBA, no AS nod). Trying to work through how it could have happened the first time is kind of instructive. It looks like the West All-Star guards that year were pretty hard to get through: Magic, Stockton, Chris Mullen, Clyde Drexler were all well-known names and great players for good teams. Also, KJ individually and the Suns as a team sort of came out of nowhere that year; you could see there being some lag before people started accepting that they were actually good. Finally, despite the team's eventual success, they did get of to a little bit of a slow start (only 11-10 a quarter of the way through the season), so it's likely they wouldn't have been a big story for early All-Star returns.

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I'm almost certain that one of the two that played for the Suns must be Jamal Crawford, who spent most of his very long career as a sixth-man scorer extraordinaire. Not the kind of profile that gets you into the All-Star game outside of some crazy circumstances. Along the same lines, I'm guessing that one of the others must be Lou Williams.

Edit to add: Looks like Derek Harper, who held the unofficial "best player never to make an All-Star appearance" title belt for a number of years, is one of the others.

2nd edit: The other Suns player was so obvious that I overlooked it, and now I feel dumb. It's Eddie Johnson, yet another dedicated 6th man scorer.

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Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:16 pm

BKinSJC wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:42 pm

The Bobster wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 05, 2025 3:36 pm

WEEK 1 TRIVIA - ALL-STAR SNUBS

SUNS QUESTION
This Suns player was named All-NBA while playing for the Suns, but was not selevted to the Western Conference All-Star team that year. He was named to an All-Star Game later in his career however.

NBA QUESTION
These three NBA players were named All-NBA but were never selected for the NBA All-Star Game during their entire careers.

BONUS QUESTION
Nine players have scored over 15,000 career regular season points but have never player in an NBA All-Star Game. Who are they? Hints: The top two played part of their careers for the Suns and none of the nine are active.

Answer to your Suns question (spoiler tag for those that might still want to work through it):

► Show Spoiler

It's Kevin Johnson. His first full year with the Suns in 1988-89, he was named 2nd team All-NBA but was not on the All-Star roster. This happened again (after he had been named an All-Star a couple of times) in 1991-92 (3rd team All-NBA, no AS nod). Trying to work through how it could have happened the first time is kind of instructive. It looks like the West All-Star guards that year were pretty hard to get through: Magic, Stockton, Chris Mullen, Clyde Drexler were all well-known names and great players for good teams. Also, KJ individually and the Suns as a team sort of came out of nowhere that year; you could see there being some lag before people started accepting that they were actually good. Finally, despite the team's eventual success, they did get of to a little bit of a slow start (only 11-10 a quarter of the way through the season), so it's likely they wouldn't have been a big story for early All-Star returns.

Bonus Question musing (not a complete answer):

► Show Spoiler

I'm almost certain that one of the two that played for the Suns must be Jamal Crawford, who spent most of his very long career as a sixth-man scorer extraordinaire. Not the kind of profile that gets you into the All-Star game outside of some crazy circumstances. Along the same lines, I'm guessing that one of the others must be Lou Williams.

Edit to add: Looks like Derek Harper, who held the unofficial "best player never to make an All-Star appearance" title belt for a number of years, is one of the others.

2nd edit: The other Suns player was so obvious that I overlooked it, and now I feel dumb. It's Eddie Johnson, yet another dedicated 6th man scorer.

Edited to add to Bonus Question musings x2

Actually, I should have word it as "This Suns player was named All-NBA while playing for the Suns, but was never selected to the Western Conference All-Star team as a Sun"

The way it was worded Kevin Johnson is correct, but there's also a second player who was all NBA once with the Suns and an All-Star once with another team. Hint: He played her since Kevin Johnson did.

SunsRIt wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 08, 2025 1:42 pm

Michael Beasley? Was he ever any good?

Superbone wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 08, 2025 2:24 pm

The Cardinals off-topic thread got me to look something up Suns related. Without researching, where do the Suns rank all-time for regular season win rate among the current 30 teams? This includes their former teams from which they evolved.