{"id":576432,"date":"2026-02-02T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/576432\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T03:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:30:20","slug":"fans-are-upset-about-kawhi-leonards-nba-all-star-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/576432\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans are upset about Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s NBA All-Star snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kawhi Leonard (barring an injury replacement) will not be able to participate in the NBA All-Star Game at his own home arena.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the NBA officially announced the All-Star reserves for the 2026 All-Star Game later this month. Notably, All-Star festivities will be held at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif., the home of the LA Clippers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2026 NBA All-Stars <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DaOg0TW1Fp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DaOg0TW1Fp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2018106303860637925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The biggest name to miss the cut for an All-Star selection was the Clippers star forward Leonard. That was despite Leonard having the best scoring season of his career with 27.7 points per game. Leonard is also leading the entire NBA in both steals per game (2.1) and free throw percentage (93.6) and <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/kawhi-leonard-55-points-clippers-ausar-amen-thompson\/733584\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has had some breathtaking single-game performances along the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fans took to social media to express their displeasure about Leonard\u2019s snub.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kawhi this season:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 27.7 PPG (career-high) <br \/>\u2014 2.1 SPG <br \/>\u2014 50\/40\/94%<br \/>\u2014 Leading NBA in SPG<br \/>\u2014 Leading NBA in FT%<\/p>\n<p>Not an All-Star. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdK3Jt67sq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xdK3Jt67sq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StatMuse (@statmuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/statmuse\/status\/2018103357076856997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m being completely serious when I say that Kawhi Leonard not making the All-Star game is the single worst non-selection I\u2019ve ever witnessed for any award in sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tyler (@tylerbritton_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerbritton_\/status\/2018105080772284420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"sv\" dir=\"ltr\">All-Star starter<br \/>All-Star starter<br \/>All-Star<br \/>All-Star starter<br \/>All-Star starter<br \/>All-Star<br \/>Kawhi<br \/>All-Star starter <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7kAkUHkDCD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7kAkUHkDCD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Eberley \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 (@JoshEberley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshEberley\/status\/2018108464816595407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Insane snub to Kawhi Leonard. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YL35jNEnvg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/YL35jNEnvg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Farbod Esnaashari (@Farbod_E) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Farbod_E\/status\/2018103563185197536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 1, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A constant concern for Leonard is obviously games played. However, he has appeared in 34 games thus far for the Clippers this year, which is right on par with 2026 Western Conference All-Star selections like Victor Wembanyama (34), Nikola Jokic (33), LeBron James (30).<\/p>\n<p>With Leonard\u2019s co-star James Harden also failing to make the All-Star team, the Clippers will not have a single representative for the All-Star Game that they are hosting. While some detractors will point to the team\u2019s 22-25 record on the year, there is little debate that Leonard\u2019s individual brilliance merited an NBA All-Star selection.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard (barring an injury replacement) will not be able to participate in the NBA All-Star Game at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,529,6,7218,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-576432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kawhi-leonard","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-all-star-game","12":"tag-nba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115998924704417893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}