Kyle Korver to replace Dwyane Wade for East, giving Hawks four All-Stars (Ball Don’t Lie)
Mere hours after Dwyane Wade announced he'd miss the 2015 NBA All-Star Game due to injury, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver named his replacement on the Eastern Conference All-Star roster — Kyle Korver of the Atlanta Hawks. (Good thing he was going to be in New York for the weekend anyway.) [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball ] It's the first All-Star nod for the 33-year-old Korver, who is averaging a career-best 12.9 points per game while shooting an NBA-leading 52.8 percent from 3-point land and 92 percent from the foul line, along with a career-high 51.6 percent mark from the field, for Mike Budenholzer's East-leading 43-10 Hawks. Considering only former marksman and current Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has ever put up 50/50/90 shooting splits over the course of a full season — and his work for the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls comes with the asterisk of insufficient amounts of field goals and free throws made to qualify for their respective leaderboards — there's a decent argument to be made that Korver's in the midst of not only the best year of his career, but the single best shooting campaign in league history....
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