No one player has had a bigger impact on the Phoenix Suns and their surprisingly solid start this season than Dillon Brooks. The 29-year-old immediately becoming the emotional engine of this group.
Devin Booker remains the franchise cornerstone, and on some nights Mark Williams and Collin Gillespie are more important, but Brooks is the only player who can regularly step into a larger role.
Brooks deserves first time All-Star nod
Which is why the Canadian international should be an All-Star for the first time this season, because he ticks so many of the boxes required to do so.