This will be LeBron's 21st season as an All-Star Game starter. LaMelo Ball and Victor Wembanyama did not make the starters cut.

For the first time in a half-century, the Knicks have two All-Star starters. Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns were named to the Eastern Conference squad for the Feb. 16 game in San Francisco, the NBA announced Thursday.

You know how it goes. Every year fans vote on who they think the starters in the All-Star game should be. That fan vote accounts for 50 percent of the tally. Another 25 percent goes to the players and the final 25 percent goes to media. The NBA adds all that together and brings you the All-Star game starting rosters.

Kevin Durant earned his 15th All-Star nod on Thursday, and he will earn a nice bonus thanks to a contract incentive.

If there is any hopeful throwback to Knicks history it is that the last time the Knicks had two starters in the All-Star Game it was in 1975 when Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe made up the backcourt.

So some like Alperen Sengun, Domantas Sabonis and Jaren Jackson might get reserve spots. But the real tough decision is measuring Kevin Durant, LeBron James and Anthony Davis against Victor Wembanyama. I’ll go with Durant and LeBron this time — and assume the other two will be in the game.

Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant was named an NBA All-Star Game starter in the frontcourt for the Western Conference on Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jalen Brunson scored 44 points despite ... PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 30 points, Kevin Durant added 27 and Phoenix rallied in the final minutes to beat Charlotte.

Jalen Brunson scored 44 points despite missing part of the third quarter with an apparent injury, and the New York Knicks beat the Milwaukee Bucks 140-106 on Sunday.

NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson scored 44 points despite missing part of ... At Phoenix, Devin Booker scored 30 points, Kevin Durant added 27 and Phoenix rallied in the final minutes to beat Charlotte. The Suns have won three straight and four of five.