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NBA All-Star Reserves: Surprising Contenders Poised to Steal the Spotlight This Year

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That gives me seven. It sounds, though, like we’re going to need an eighth — at least, if Antetokounmpo’s assessment of his latest calf injury winds up bearing out. And with respect to a number of very good players on pretty good teams, I’m going with Siakam, an excellent player on a very, very bad Indiana team that is very bad through absolutely no fault of his own.

Everybody knew this Pacers season was going to be hopeless as soon as Tyrese Haliburton hit the ground in Oklahoma City last June. But even without the point guard who makes the Pacers special, and with a handful of other rotation players missing time to turn Indiana into arguably the most injury-ravaged team in the NBA, Siakam has just kept showing up for work and excelling: 23.8 points, 7.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game, shooting 48% from the field and 37.8% from 3-point land — all while shouldering the highest usage rate of his career, despite being double-teamed more often than ever, with a rotating cast of not-quite-ready-for-prime-time-players around him.

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