Season 48 All Star Game Rosters

 Season 48 All Star Game factoids

— East leads West 30-17 with East having won last 5 games

—10 first-time all stars this season…5 in West (1 starter), 5 in East (3 starters); oldest first-time All Star is 6th season player James “Cherry Challenge” Payne of Sacramento

— 4 all stars will be retiring after this season (1 Hall of Famer)

— 2 Hall of Famers in the game this season

— For the first time in many a moon, two teams fail to place players in the game

—3 rookies made the All Star Game (0 starters); last season 2 rookies, both started

—oldest All Stars…Tree Fiddy and Ape Con Myth, both in 10th season

—most All Star appearances…Tree Fiddy of Sacramento in his 8th game; one of just 9 players to make it that many times; one of 11 players to have made 6 or more starts.

—most All Star Game starts…Chip Battoe of Dallas…6 in 6 games in 6 seasons

—Chip Battoe now has 22 lifetime awards, tying him for fourth-best all time with Uncle Bob Masterson

—teams with most stars…Sacramento and Milwaukee 4 each

—team with most starters…Sacramento…3

—of the 20 players who made the teams last season, only 7 returned for this season’s game

—making the Game gives Tree Fiddy his 10th award and Hall of Fame status; Dr. Marcus Brody now has 9 awards, one short of Hall of Fame status.

—near misses to the team: Jesse Shershot, San Jose (22.2), rookie forward Muscle Shoals, Charleston (20.2).

—All-MBA players from last season who did not make All Star Game this season: Shershot and Doo-rag Dripp of Sacramento (19.6)