 What's the word y'all? It's finally time for me to get y'all my official Kenny for Real All-Star Ballot. Nope, I should probably work that better. Cause the Kenny for Real All-Star Ballot sound like I'm at the Vofershade or Jollibee. No, no, no, no. The Kenny for Real All-Stars is something that I started a few years ago. The idea behind it, because on this channel, at least the inception of this channel, was us talking about random things around basketball. It's not necessarily mainstream. We've kind of steered away from that recently because brother got bills to pay and I got to talk about the mainstream topics. But it was the idea of the players that won't get talked about or the players that do the little things that cause teams to win. That's really like the only criteria when I really think about it. It is also my list. So I fumbled with the rules. I changed some stuff. At the end of the day, we just go talk about some people that I think deserve some more recognition. 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So hit the link in the description down to the PricePix app and use Co-Kinny. Please play responsibly. So originally I wanted to try to get East versus West just like in real life. It's not gonna happen. We just, we just gonna talk. We just gonna talk. You know what I'm saying? We fumbling the rules because this is my All-Star game. Starting off in the West of Crimes, these are the people that I think will be Kinney for All-Stars based on the first 60, 65% of the NBA season. Number one, guard position. Kevin Herter and number two, KCP. I think Kevin Herter's starting to give his flowers a little bit. The whole Sacramento Kings team is you because DeMonte Sabones should be at lock for the All-Star game. Deere Fox is in the conversations and I think people are realizing the impact that Kevin Herter has on this team because he's been ridiculous. He's still shooting crazy well from the field and from three, the dribble hand also between him and DeMonte Sabones is some of the best in basketball. He's gotta make this list from a guy that in Atlanta we saw him be good because he gave what, 27 points to Seth Curry in that game seven that helped the Atlanta Hawks get to the conference finals. He did that, but he's way more than he was back then and he's still relatively young, I think 25 years old. KCP has been so smooth for the entire course of his career, but he is the perfect guard slash player to play alone side, Nikoli Jokic. I can't explain it any deeper than that. He's gonna hit his shots. He gonna cut hard. He gonna play defense. Those are all the recipes you need for a quality play around Jokic. Number three and number four are both rookie. So it's kind of cheating to have rookies on the list, but it again, it is my list. I don't watch any college basketball again. I say that every time I mention rookies because I think it is important for the people that are new around this channel. So my first introduction to Jeremy So-Chan or Tari Eason came like a couple of days before the draft when I was supposed to do a little bit of draft work because it was my job to do a live stream about this stuff. And those two people really piqued my interest when I was doing my individual studies on them. And they've carried that over to the NBA. Jeremy just had his first 30 point game in his career and they ended up losing because it's the Spurs and that's kind of what they in for. But he showed a lot of offensive growth already this season. The fact that he went from a dude that was shooting, I don't know, I'm gonna make some percentage of 30% from the free throw line when you shoot him with two hands. And in the middle of the season, he was like, okay, I'm gonna change to one hand and he got it up to 60 something percent. Just shows how dedicated he is to the growth of himself as a player. And you're seeing that growth from his first NBA game versus his last, again, where he had 30 points. So I'm watching him more than I'm watching the Spurs collectively because I like to see his steady progression already in his young NBA career. Before the NBA draft, my homies told me, Taris and this type of dude that you're gonna love Kenny and they're absolutely right. He is, that's all I can really say. He hustles, his splits ain't gonna be too great. He's a rookie player, but he hustles and he plays hard. And those are the type of dudes I really care about. And I found out that his OG follows me on Twitter randomly, I just found out she does. And I had to hit it with the follow back. All right, I love to see her laugh, tweet and rockets games with her son is doing good. It just reminds me of moms when I used to hoop. Obviously not at the same level how excited she was whenever I did anything. So it's just, it's just wholesome content. Next guy, he might be the captain of this Kenny Frill All-Star list is Josh Green. I've been on the Josh Green fan club since like the beginning of last season. I can't say I was there for his rookie year, but I joined in last year at the top of it. Ain't wait to the playoffs like a lot of people. Yeah, through the first month or so, he was shooting like 52% from three. And then he had five games before his injury, where he ain't hit nothing. So they've got his percentages down and he's back and he's up and down right now. But he's another one of those dudes that just does a lot of the right stuff. I feel like that's time to describe a lot of people off the bench. We have Isaiah Joe. Isaiah Joe, man, listen, Isaiah Joe was a part of the 76ers couldn't get PT and now they gave him away to the OKC Thunder. And not only is he playing phenomenally, he's doing something that not a lot of people on the team are doing and that's hitting the three-point shot in the high clip, but he's becoming a piece that seems like he's gonna be a part of the core of the OKC Thunder. This is a dude that was given away a couple months ago. I made a video a few weeks ago in my car. I was driving home from the podcast. We were talking about Shay and I got into my car and I still wanted to talk more about Shay. And I was seeing in that video that the fact that Shay Gildes is averaging 30 points per game when he has like no respected shooters on his team. Now, people took that into context because respected versus good shooters are two different things. Respect to shooters are Steph Curry. Respect to shooters are Kevin Herter. We're like, we gon' send a lot of him. Isaiah Joe doesn't have that just yet, but he's one of the best shooters in basketball. Eventually he's gonna be a respected shooter. He's gonna open a game by more for some of the other people on the team. Terrence Mann was given the starting spot over Reggie Jackson and John Wall. And I think he's starting 26 games in a season and it's that versus a starter versus coming off the bench, it's dramatically different. He just feels more fluid and the teams look a lot better when he's at the lead guard. It's not like he's this playmaker or anything. I think he's only averaging like two and a half of seasons of starter, but the team just feels better when he started. So he's gotta be a Kenny for All-Star. He's kind of been here since the big game versus Utah. I'll be honest with you. Dang, I didn't realize how many rookies were on my list. The next two are rookies, Walker Kessler. I think he's getting enough recognition right now. So we won't go too in deep, but the fact that this man's already one of the premier rim protectors in basketball in his first year in the NBA is insane. We don't really see, I think the two positions in basketball that are harder to adjust to coming out of college is the point guard position and the center position is mostly because of the speed, right? The speed and the athleticism of the opposing people. But the fact that he came into this league and he's adjusted perfectly for all the athletes in this game is ridiculous. Kevin O'Connor is tweeting that he was better than, I forget who he's going. I think it might have been Yusuf Nerkic already. And I was like, damn, got a point, you know? He's a rookie, he's a rookie. And the next dude is J-Dubb. Listen, we've talked at length about J-Dubb, Jalen Williams over there in OKC. He just runs the fast brick like crazy. I watch him, I see a shot go up. I know he is booking it. And then there's nobody that's gonna catch him. His finishing and transition is crazy. And then a couple of nights ago, he had two threes late in the fourth quarter to help them win a game. And I know he's like a career 29% three point shooter through the first couple months of his career. But he had two in that game and it was crucial. And I love to see players like him, man, for real. Next, we got Nasred. If we found out that Nasred may be on a trade block, it makes sense because he's gonna be an expensive-ish player next season. Because I think the league is realizing that Nasred as an offensive player is ridiculous for his size and his role. A lot to be desired on the defensive side of the ball. But if you need somebody to come off your bench and give buckets, Nasred is doing that from all three levels as a center. And I like it. I'm very curious to see where he ends up at. I don't even know what team should be making a trade form because I don't know at this point if he's a legitimate starter because of his defense, but he's definitely gonna give you quality minutes and score a bunch of points. The last guy we're gonna talk about at length here in the Western Conference is Nazir Little. So last year, Nazir got a lot of pts. He wants the Portland Tremblayers to decide, okay, dang, he's dealing with abdominal injury. We gonna see who we got with our young players. We found out that Anthony Simons is a bucket and we found out that Nazir Little is good enough for now. Good enough for us to want to keep him around. Unfortunately for him, you know, he started off this season and then he got injured with, I think it was a hip thing and something like that. He missed like a month and a half of basketball. So he missed all of December and half of January. But when I've been watching Nazir Little over the last couple of days, it's he been back. I'm seeing a lot of things that I really like. Now, defensively, we knew that Nazir Little can do that type of stuff, but the thing that is elevating him right now is the fact that he's shooting 42% from three. 42%. On two and a half attempts, so the value is not super crazy, but he's hitting them. And I think he could just add something a little bit different for the Portland Trail Blazers, because Josh Hart, as good of an NBA player he is, he doesn't shoot three-pointers, which means that me as a coach, I'm gonna let him just do what he has to do. And I think that Nazir Little is getting a lot of open shots too, because he's a 42% three-point shooter right now, but throughout the course of his career, he's been a bad shooter. So he's getting a lot of open looks, but as long as he's making them, I mean, what can you say? Josh Hart is getting open looks, but instead of taking them, you know what I'm saying? He rather take the long two. He rather go fast, something at the rim, which is fine, but Nazir Little being able to shoot, if this is him, just opens up the game a lot more for Dane and Anthony. Other dudes, Ty's Jones, Dyson Daniels, and Thomas Bryant are also Kenny for all star people. I just don't, I'm not gonna talk about it because we already spent a lot of time with the people our way, so shout out to them. Thomas Bryant, it sucks that since Anthony Davis came back, he don't really get PT anymore, but he held it down for the Lake Show while AD was out, so he deserves a medal for that. Let's move on to the Eastern Conference. I didn't realize I was spending this much time. Eastern Conference guard one is the Anthony Melton. The Anthony Melton has been a Kenny for all star for the last two seasons, so shout out to him back to back. Is he the only back to back? So far, he's the only back to back. Man, the Anthony Melton, keep doing your thing. He's been one of the more consistent players in the league. Obviously he's not giving you 20 or 30 or anything like that, but he had been so consistent when the Philadelphia 76ers needed him to do that because when Tyries Maxi went out, it felt like, oh man, what are they gonna do next? He came in, he's their best perimeter defender outside of Matisse Dible, who plays sometimes, who don't play other times, and then since Tyries Maxi been back, they were like, okay, the Anthony be doing his thing. We kind of like the different pace that Tyries Maxi gives us off the bench. We okay with the Anthony Melton starting for us, and it's been working. They're the hottest team in basketball right now. Just beat the different nuggets the other night. So they've been doing great things at the Anthony Melton again, two years in a row. Guard number two is Quentin Grimes. I didn't know much about Quentin Grimes coming out of college, but I did go to the elite eight and I got the receipts that I was at the elite eight or final four, whatever he was in, in Indianapolis a few years ago. I took a picture of the Jumbo Tron that had Quentin Grimes up there, and I said, P, sending it to my boy Pierre. Pierre, he nice. And Pierre is like a draft guy. He was like, oh yeah, that's Quentin Grimes. He's gonna be real nice. Little did Pierre know Quentin Grimes was gonna get drafted to his favorite team. You know what I'm saying? And I asked Pierre the other day, who was your favorite Nick? He said Quentin Grimes is not even close. He got Julius Randall playing in also level, Shailen Brunner playing in also level, but his favorite is Quentin Grimes. He brings it intensity defensively and we know he can shoot. Four spot number one is Patrick Williams. I ain't gonna get y'all to Chicago Bulls, Patrick Williams thing, but I'm loving to see his progression throughout the season because early in it, you know, that he was talking about how he was training with DeMarco Rose in his off season. All of us Bulls fans like, oh, he's training with DeMarco. He about to come in aggressive and he wasn't aggressive. He just wasn't aggressive. And it blew my mind because I know that he's a talented NBA player, but he lacks aggression. Even now he still lacks aggression, but we're seeing it go up and up and up. We're seeing him have the defensive impact and we're seeing him take more shots. And that's all I really want from Pat. The bull season is over for me, but if Patrick Williams keep doing this thing, I'm excited. From a current bull to a former Wendell Carter. Oh, he's a two time Kenny for all star. Ladies and gentlemen, he is, I got a couple more two timers. Oh man, I ain't realized he circumferred. It's just people just get the legacy balance. I feel like the next guy is TJ McConnell. TJ McConnell. Oh, I hate this man so much because he's so, so much of a nuisance. You know what I'm saying? I hate him when he went against the Bulls the other night and he claims Zach Lavigne. I hated it with a passion, but I respected the hell out of it. And that's what he do. Next one is Yuta the shooter. Yuta Watanabe is still killing the game, shooting almost 50% from 3.0. What more can I really say? A two time Kenny for all star, Grant Williams, we talked about him a bunch. Shout out to the homie. Another rookie on this list, AJ Griffin. I just, I don't understand why AJ don't get 25 minutes per game. It's actually gone down from the last time we've talked about him. He just don't, I don't, I know he's a rookie mate, but he's just one of those dudes that feels like he's in the right spot at all times. He rarely makes mistakes and he hits shots and he plays defense. Like what more can you want from a young player? I understand the Atlanta Hawks are trying to win and stuff, but he helps you win. He got two, I almost said home runs. He got two game winners this season. This is his rookie year. He got two game winners already, man. And the last two people on the Kenny for all star ballot is Mark Williams, who still got a lot of work to do on the offensive side of the ball, but when he's on the court defensively, you feel his impact, another rookie. And then Robin Lopez, because I like a good old hook shot and he don't play a lot, but when he play, he gonna give you one clean hook shot per, and now I'm looking at my notes. I had Patrick Williams, Grant Williams, Mark Williams and Jalen Williams all on my list. I'm just missing Jalen Williams. And then is that all the Williamson's in the league? I think so. Anyway, that's the Kenny for all star ballot. Let me know who you would have on your own personal one. If you do stuff like this, you might not be a weirdo like me though.