Kudos to Dyson Daniels on breaking one of my least favorite streaks in the NBA . Last season, he won Most Improved Player without making the All-Star team. The last player to do so was Pascal Siakam , and he and CJ McCollum are the only active players to win the award without also having made the All-Star Game for the first time in that season. With Ivica Zubac finishing second, the only first-time All-Star to even finish in the top five was Cade Cunningham in third place.

Could Daniels represent a change in how the electorate perceives this award? That will take years to play out. What we can note for now is that we had six first-time All-Stars last year along with three second-time All-Stars and three third-time selections. In other words, many of the young players who had b

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