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You actually came up with 8 counting West… There are a couple of trends.

One – Eastern Conference centers. That really skews this kind of thing. I mean, they sort of require the voters to pick two of those, and they tend to be really, really bad.

Two – HS straight to the NBA. This you might expect. In fact, it’s mildly surprising that there are only two, but Kobe averaged 7.6 as a rook, TMac 7, so the trend of 18 year olds going from little used to all stars is well-established.

That leaves Nash, Redd and West as the real stories here. They were all ‘older’ rookies (Redd 21, Nash 22, West 23) who had played at least 3 years of college ball, who needed a chance and some hard work to become All Stars.

Well played sir.