5 biggest All-NBA questions remaining this season

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No. 2: Who gets the First-Team Forward spots?

You’d be hard pressed to find a tougher ask of voters in recent memory than picking two names here.

You could argue pretty easily that four of the five best players in the league this season have been forwards…and that doesn’t include the guy who most still agree is still the best player in the world.

Making matters even more difficult, Giannis Antetokounmpo has one of these spots all but secured. Best player on the best team, video game numbers, probable appearance on the All-Defense Team…it’s a lock. That leaves one of Paul George, Kawhi Leonard and Kevin Durant for the last spot.

As of right this second, it’s George’s to lose. He’s the second leading scorer in the league, putting up eight rebounds and four dimes a night, taking damn near 10 threes a game and hitting them at a 40 percent clip, and his Thunder go from the best team in the league when he’s on the court (10.4 net rating) to the worst team in the league when he’s off (minus 11.2 net rating). He might be the Defensive Player of the Year. As Zach Lowe discussed on a recent Lowe Post with Tim MacMahon, he is the best supporting piece the NBA has seen since Kevin Durant won his MVP in the same position five years ago.

But Russ is still the straw that stirs the drink. Will voters knock George for that? Durant himself will have a word before all is said and done. His 62.9 true shooting percentage trails only his MVP teammate and presumptive MVP Antetokounmpo among high usage players. Along with his counting stats, that would put him in some elite company. Kawhi Leonard would have a more legitimate case had it not been for 16 missed games already.

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