Trey Lyles and Dante Exum selected for 2017 Rising Stars Challenge

[Utah Jazz Newsfeed]

UtahJazz.com - Danté Exum and Trey Lyles Named to 2017 BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge

SALT LAKE CITY (January 25, 2017)*–*The NBA announced today that sec

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[fishonjazz]

That's cool

 

[Elizah Huge]

Trey Lyles and Dante Exum were selected to play on Team World in the 2017 BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge at All-Star Weekend.

https://www.nba.com/jazz/news/dante...amed-2017-bbva-compass-rising-stars-challenge


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[Douchebag K]

Maybe the coach of the world team might give Dante some minutes ...

 

[Elizah Huge]

Merge with my other thread please. The one I made 5 mins after the story was released.


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[Stifle Tower]

Good thing they're looking for Rising Stars and not Shooting Stars. Check that...with those 2 you can use the old Sloan phrase about having shooters but needing "makers."

 

[enchilada_style]

Good thing they're looking for Rising Stars and not Shooting Stars. Check that...with those 2 you can use the old Sloan phrase about having shooters but needing "makers."

lolol

 

[NAOS]

Maybe the coach of the world team might give Dante some minutes ...

:`(

 

[elan_prodigy]

I thought the FO was strong on Dante only playing for the Jazz for the foreseeable future.

 

[Sandman822]

Hope Exum gets a much needed confidence boost from being able to play significant minutes.

 

[Hitman]

Obviously not a lot of good young international players in NBA.

 

[Hotdog]

Wtf.

How in the hell did those two make the rising stars challenge?

 

[David Stern]

Wtf.

How in the hell did those two make the rising stars challenge?

The last few rookie/sophomore classes have been pretty bad.. Idk who else they would put in over these two. Maybe this will help give Dante some confidence.

 

[MVP]

Slim pickings for international players is the only reason Exum made it. Not because he deserves it.

 

[MVP]

Wtf.

How in the hell did those two make the rising stars challenge?

By being Canadian and Australian.

 

[jope]

Obviously not a lot of good young international players in NBA.

jokic, embiid, porzingis, wiggins. they could all be stars at some point.

 

[Hitman]

jokic, embiid, porzingis, wiggins. they could all be stars at some point.

I wasn't throwing shade at the top end. But when one player who has barely an hour's worth of accumulated court time in the past month, and another player who has shot enough bricks this season to build Trump's wall BOTH get selected, you have to wonder who the alternatives were.