No surprises with All-Star starters; Irving will play waiting game

OKLAHOMA CITY – When All-Star starters were announced Thursday night, there weren’t any real surprises, even if people in San Antonio howl that Victor Wembanyama wasn’t among them.
As was expected, neither Luka Dončić nor Kyrie Irving made the Western Conference starters. Irving will wait until the reserves are announced on Feb. 1. Dončić probably has missed too many games to be considered for a reserve slot, but stranger things have happened.
One thing that