NBA Stars-in-Waiting Guaranteed to Blossom Next Season

May 14th, 2013 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »
More and more teams are headed or soon will be headed to the offseason, aspiring to better things for next year. On those teams there are individual players who hope to achieve more success by blossoming into stars.

In compiling this list, it was hard to define exact parameters in terms of who had already blossomed, who was a star-in-waiting versus a new star or how old a player could be and still be considered for the list.

Rough parameters were that player had to be younger than 25 as of opening day this season. Players who had made an All-Star team or All-Defensive team, I considered to be stars already. This ruled out most of the bigger stars, such as Blake Griffin, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant and Serge Ibaka.

Then there was another level of stars that have not been recognized by All-Star or All-Team selections but who were definitely stars, such as Stephen Curry, Kenneth Faried or Kawhi Leonard. In those cases my intention is not to insult them by not putting them on the list, but to not insult them by putting them on the list. They have blossomed.

These are young players ready to take their game to the next level. They are r ...

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