Meet the 2021-22 NBA T-Shirt All-Star Team

Western Conference T-Shirt All-Star Starters

1. Mike Conley – Utah Jazz

Mike Conley is the one 2021-22 T-Shirt Player All-Star to have made it to the actual All-Star Game before, just last season for the first time in his 14-year career. Conley has taken a little step back in terms of last year’s All-Star level production, but he’s still the lead point guard for a hopeful Western Conference contender, and his numbers really aren’t that far off.

2. Reggie Jackson — Los Angeles Clippers

Without Kawhi Leonard and now Paul George, Reggie Jackson has stepped up for the Clippers who keep taking teams by surprise and have not one, not two, but three comebacks of 24+ points over the last two weeks, stunning the Nuggets, Sixers and Wizards. Reg-Jax actually wasn’t involved in the enormous comeback against the Wizards, but since George has been out since just before Christmas, Jackson leads the Clippers in fourth-quarter scoring by a wide margin.

3. Norman Powell – Portland Trail Blazers

Norm Powell recently missed a significant chunk of time due to the health and safety protocols and then for personal reasons, but he was putting up 18.6 points per game for the first 2.5 months of the season. He has played more than the 30 games limit to be eligible, and he also made two clutch free throws down the stretch in his first game back against the T-Wolves.

4. Jae Crowder – Phoenix Suns

This is the one T-shirt player who takes it a step further and actually wears two full arm-sleeves in addition to his tee, giving Crowder a long-sleeve T-shirt appearance. (Garland, Conley, Nurk and Andre Drummond all wear one long arm-sleeve on their non-shooting arms.) Crowder isn’t having his best season, but he’s a professional grinder the Suns can count on to exude toughness and grit.

5. Jusuf Nurkic — Portland Trail Blazers

At 6-foot-11 and 290 pounds, the Bosnian Beast is the biggest player to rock a tee. (But not the tallest. That’s 7-foot-2 Moses Brown.) The Blazers have been much better lately and Nurkic has played a big factor in that. Big Nurk recently had his best game of the season, scoring 29 points and hauling in 17 rebounds in a fourth-quarter comeback win in Boston that also featured a Nurkic game-winner.

[Note: This spot would usually be reserved for one Anthony Davis, but AD hasn’t played enough games to be eligible due to an MCL sprain that kept him out for over a month. AD might not be a T-Shirt All-Star this year, but he’s still regarded as the greatest T-Shirt Player of All-Time.]

Western Conference T-Shirt All-Star Reserves

R1. Cameron Johnson – Phoenix Suns

He’s definitely known for his 3-point shooting — a stark 43 percent so far this season — but remember Cam Johnson’s power dunk on top of P.J. Tucker in The Finals? That thang was nuclear. And it was T-shirt player on T-shirt player crime! (Although Tucker was actually not wearing his usual T-shirt that night…)

R2. Gary Payton II – Golden State Warriors

What a glow-up for GP2! After barely making the Warriors’ final roster, the Mitten has blossomed into a key role player and defensive ace for a legit championship contender. And now he’s made the first-ever T-shirt Player All-Star team!