{"id":599895,"date":"2026-02-13T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599895\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:10:17","slug":"nets-egor-demin-set-for-rising-stars-spotlight-at-all-star-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/599895\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets\u2019 Egor D\u00ebmin set for Rising Stars spotlight at All-Star Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Egor D\u00ebmin has known for weeks he\u2019d be headed to All-Star weekend<\/a>. Friday night, the Nets rookie will finally get to step onto the floor for the NBA Rising Stars Challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting,\u201d D\u00ebmin said. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event, set for 9 p.m. ET at Intuit Dome and airing on Peacock, gathers much of the league\u2019s young core for a four-team mini-tournament. Three squads of NBA rookies and sophomores will be led by Hall of Famers Carmelo Anthony, Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter, while a fourth team of G League standouts will be coached by Austin Rivers.<\/p>\n

D\u00ebmin slots onto Team Vince, alongside VJ Edgecombe, Derik Queen, Kyshawn George, Matas Buzelis, Cedric Coward and Jaylen Wells.<\/p>\n

Team Melo features Reed Sheppard, Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper, Jeremiah Fears, Donovan Clingan and Collin Murray-Boyles, with Ace Bailey replacing Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n

Team T-Mac includes Kon Knueppel, Kel\u2019el Ware, Tre Johnson, Ajay Mitchell, Jaylon Tyson and Cam Spencer, with Bub Carrington in for Alex Sarr.<\/p>\n

The G League group under Rivers will roll out Sean East II, Ron Harper Jr., Yanic Konan Niederh\u00e4user, Alijah Martin, Tristen Newton, Yang Hansen, Mac McClung and David Jones Garcia.<\/p>\n

Taken eighth overall out of BYU<\/a>, D\u00ebmin is one of 10 rookies selected. For Brooklyn, the nod carries weight. It\u2019s the franchise\u2019s first Rising Stars participant since 2019, another sign that the work being poured into its young core is starting to resonate outside the building.<\/p>\n

It also says plenty about how quickly D\u00ebmin has reshaped the narrative around himself.<\/p>\n

After shooting 27.3% from deep in college, he has lifted that number by 12.3% in the NBA, the second-largest jump in this draft class. The growth has arrived with real volume and in real moments.<\/p>\n

Through 46 games, D\u00ebmin has buried 116 3-pointers. That\u2019s second among rookies this season and already the second most by a rookie in franchise history, trailing only Kerry Kittles. At 2.5 per game, he\u2019s on pace to make a run at the record by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

League-wide, the company is just as telling. He\u2019s tied with Kevin Durant and Dillon Brooks for the 38th-most threes made this season. He shares the rookie lead in fourth-quarter makes with Knueppel, a total that also sits inside the NBA\u2019s top 10 overall. He has six or more in a game three times and at least five in eight, the most by a first-year Net.<\/p>\n

The shooting might be the headline, but it isn\u2019t the whole story. D\u00ebmin ranks ninth among rookies in assists, eighth in assists per game, seventh in assist percentage and 10th in assist-to-turnover ratio.<\/p>\n

Friday brings a different stage, a sprint instead of a marathon, and a court filled with the peers who have shaped this class from the start.<\/p>\n

For D\u00ebmin, it\u2019s recognition. It\u2019s opportunity.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s another step in a rookie season that keeps opening doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egor D\u00ebmin has known for weeks he\u2019d be headed to All-Star weekend. Friday night, the Nets rookie will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,227,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,12398,671,39618],"class_list":{"0":"post-599895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-egor-demin","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesclippers","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-all-star-weekend","20":"tag-nets","21":"tag-rising-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116060659687888608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599895","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=599895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}