Full All Star roster here:

No James Harden.

He’s averaging 21, six, and 11 this year while leading the NBA in assists per game and shooting a career-high 39.4% from three. Yeah, he missed time early in the season, but he’s still played 34 games for a top-three team in the East that has games in hand on the Celtics and Bucks.

One of Tyrese Haliburton or Jrue Holiday should have made way here. DeMar DeRozan, too. Haliburton is a good story as a first-time All Star but Harden’s stats are slightly better despite a negligible usage rate difference. Holiday is, of course, a better defender, so if that’s being taken into account it’s the only clear advantage he has over Harden this season. And DeRozan is a tough comparison because he’s a volume scorer who does a lot of midrange work and is much less of a playmaker.

I dunno. The whole thing is kind of weird. There’s a portion of NBA fans who think Harden is “washed,” which is clearly not the case. His game has changed since leaving Houston, by necessity, but he’s still dishing out 11 assists per game and facilitating for the team with the fourth-best winning percentage in the entire NBA. You can have whatever opinion you want about Harden, but it’s pretty obvious that he was snubbed this year.