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Kyle Korver replaces Dwyane Wade in NBA All-Star Game

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Feb 2, 2015; New Orleans, LA, USA; Atlanta Hawks guard Kyle Korver (26) looks on during the third quarter of a game against the New Orleans Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center. The Pelicans defeated the Hawks 115-100. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 2, 2015; New Orleans, LA, USA; Atlanta Hawks guard Kyle Korver (26) looks on during the third quarter of a game against the New Orleans Pelicans at the Smoothie King Center. The Pelicans defeated the Hawks 115-100. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports

Atlanta Hawks sharpshooter Kyle Korver will be heading to New York this Weekend.

The basketball gods have made things right. Atlanta Hawks absolute assassin for a shooter, forward Kyle Korver, will be heading to New York City this weekend to participate in the 2015 NBA All-Star Game.

Korver is replacing Dwyane Wade as he’s announced today he will not play due to his lingering hamstring issue. With Wade though, what body part isn’t a lingering issue?

What excites many about the Korver selection is the idea of him as player.

He’s a throwback.

In this age of athleticism and boisterous attitudes, Korver represents the type of player our fathers and grandfathers grew up watching – a guy that will straight rip your heart out with a simple flick of the wrist and not say a word.

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Playing on the best team in the league at the moment, the 43-10 Hawks, Korver is more deserving an All-Star spot than perhaps anybody heading to the five-boroughs this weekend.

He’s currently shooting an unheard of .516 from the floor and .528 from downtown. Nobody in the history of the league has ever shot over 50 percent from three (who qualified with enough attempts), and Korver is only 29 games away from making history.

In fact, if he kept up this record breaking pace, he’d become the first player in history to shoot better than 50 percent from both the floor and three-point range, while also shooting above 90 percent from the foul line. It’s happened before but nobody has ever recorded enough shots to qualify.

It’s actually mind-boggling how good he’s been this season.

Korver, 33, has always been one of the better pure shooters in the game since he entered the league in 2003 with the Philadelphia 76ers. However, the Creighton product has never been put in an All-Star worthy position before this season.

His breakout is a testament to the team-game the Hawks are playing under second-year coach Mike Budenholzer. Like Greg Popovich in San Antonio (where Budenholzer spend 18 years and perfected his coaching craft), he preaches and executes team-ball better than anybody on Earth.

For Korver, a spot up shooter and one-dribble pull-up guy, Budenholzer’s system is s perfect recipe for success.

If the throwback idea was great with Korver, it extends to the level of fantastic when you mix in the style for which the Hawks play NBA level basketball.

Korver is now the fourth Hawks player to be named an All-Star (Jeff Teague, Al Horford and Paul Millsap). The last time four players from the same team attended the same All-Star game was in 2008 as Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo received the honor as members of the Boston Celtics.

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