Detroit Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said that the Hawks deserve to have four players on the NBA All-Star team.
Van Gundy was asked by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution before Monday’s Hawks-Pistons game which player or players from the Eastern Conference leaders should be represented next month in New York.
“I haven’t sat down and looked at everybody but you can make very strong cases for (Jeff) Teague, (Kyle) Korver, (Al) Horford and (Paul) Millsap - all four of them. When you look at their record, it would be hard to argue that they don’t deserve to have four guys playing. When you are winning 80 percent of your games, you obviously got a lot of people playing well so they should have a lot of people on that team.”
NBA All-Star balloting ends Monday at 11:59 p.m. The Hawks are unlikely to have a player voted in as a starter. One or more Hawks representatives would have to be selected among the seven reserves by conference coaches.
The All-Star starters will be announced on Thursday. Reserves will be announced on Jan. 29. The All-Star game will be played Feb. 15 at Madison Square Garden.
The Hawks entered play Monday with a 33-8 record, best in the East by five games.
