With the NBA All-Star starter pool selected, Portland Trail Blazers fans will wait eagerly to see if guard Damian Lillard is selected for the West as a reserve. Lillard made the team in 2014 and 2015 as a reserve, but missed out the past two seasons while improving his numbers. As the announcement of reserves—coming Tuesday, January 23—gets closer, experts and pundits will offer their guesses on who is selected.
The NBA on TNT crew, which consists of former NBA players Shaquille O’Neal, Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley along with host Ernie Johnson, offered their choices, with Lillard missing:
With everyone voting for LaMarcus Aldridge, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green, Karl-Anthony Towns and Klay Thompson, reserve spots were limited.