The Knicks have their All-Star after all. David Lee will replace Allen Iverson on the Eastern Conference team after Iverson dropped out for personal reasons.
When Lee was not named to the original team, he said, “Plenty of motivation has been handed to me the rest of the season.”
With the Knicks at 19-32, Lee will be the lone player on the Eastern Conference from a losing club, and the Knicks will have as many All-Stars as the league-best Cavaliers.
Lee was chosen instead of Shaquille O’Neal of the Cavaliers.
“He’s playing at an All-Star level right now,” Mike D’Antoni said of Lee when the original team was named. “If we’re third in the league, he’s there in a heartbeat.”
Lee, in his fifth NBA season, will be making his first, and his stock may have just gone up this summer. He also was named Wednesday as one of the 27 members of Team USA.
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