Aaron Gordon Says Nuggets Only Having 1 2024 NBA All-Star ‘Doesn’t Make Any Sense’

Paul KasabianFeatured Columnist IIFebruary 15, 2024

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The defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets only have one All-Star Game representative in two-time regular season MVP Nikola Jokić, and forward Aaron Gordon believes it “doesn’t make any sense” for that to be the case.

Harrison Wind @HarrisonWindAaron Gordon on the Nuggets only having one player at All-Star Weekend: “I don’t know why that is. Not entirely sure. That’s a mystery to me. Doesn’t make any sense.”

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Jokić, the reigning NBA Finals MVP, is starting at center for the Western Conference in this year’s All-Star Game, which will take place on Sunday in Indianapolis.

It’s clear why Gordon feels that the Nuggets should have more All-Star representatives. They are the defending champions, after all, and have followed that up with a respectable 36-19 record (fourth in the Western Conference). And of course, Gordon is going to defend the talent of himself and his teammates.

The issue is that the West is loaded with superstar talent, and it’s hard to argue for any Nuggets to get in over anyone who made the roster. Huge names like Stephen Curry, Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard aren’t even in the starting lineup. The West has two representatives (Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards) from its top team, the Minnesota Timberwolves.

And then you have two other superstars in sharpshooter Devin Booker and now nine-time All-Star Paul George.

Simply put, as good as players like Jamal Murray, Gordon and Michael Porter Jr. can be, on an individual basis, they probably aren’t on the same level as any of those reserves.

Of course, at the end of the day, team accolades matter a lot more than individual ones, and those aforementioned three still played crucial roles in landing Denver its first-ever NBA title, with relative ease no less.