SALT LAKE CITY — The Rising Stars media availability was held on Friday morning with members from all four teams speaking with reporters.
This includes Josh Giddey and Jalen Williams, who will share a team together on Joakim Noah’s team.
The Rising Stars challenge will be a four-team tournament held on Friday with a target score of 40 points for the semi-finals and a target score of 25 points for the finals.
The Oklahoma City Thunder duo participated in the event. Let’s take a look at some of the best quotes and paraphrases from their media availabilities and their general thoughts on being involved in All-Star weekend.
Josh Giddey said SGA is “by far” the drippiest player in the league: “We got a pretty drippy team ourselves.”
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) February 17, 2023
Jalen Williams said he’s excited to be teammates with Josh Giddey in the Rising Stars game
He also said he didn’t watch the Rising Stars draft live and found out afterwards they were on the same team
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) February 17, 2023
Jalen Williams said his Thunder teammates don’t really play video games outside of 2K and he’s not really good at it: “I’m usually putting my sliders to 99 so I don’t miss a shot.”
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) February 17, 2023
Jalen Williams said he’s been replaying #TheLastOfUsHBO video game and has been a fan of the show, albeit he hasn’t watched much of it lately pic.twitter.com/98cLW47Kh5
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) February 17, 2023
When asked who’d he draft first in the All-Star game, Jalen Williams said SGA
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) February 17, 2023
Josh Giddey said Jalen Williams was “great” on the flight, and Jdub just put his headphones on and went to sleep
— Rylan Stiles (@Rylan_Stiles) February 17, 2023
Big news: Josh Giddey’s first NBA jersey was Yao Ming. His dad gave it to him after a trip to China.
— Joe Mussatto (@joe_mussatto) February 17, 2023
Big scrum around Josh Giddey for Rising Stars media availability pic.twitter.com/R9snS2N4c9
— Joe Mussatto (@joe_mussatto) February 17, 2023
The love is real between Josh Giddey and his home country of Australia ❤️
See more from the #JordanRisingStars on the NBA App!
📲 https://t.co/fes78YWqOs pic.twitter.com/q051ZmreMZ
— NBA (@NBA) February 17, 2023
Josh Giddey on the Thunder having 3 representatives in All-Star weekend:
"Hopefully this is just the beginning. For years to come, we get guys coming to this weekend and it's definitely exciting for OKC."
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) February 17, 2023
Josh Giddey told Jalen Williams that the Rising Stars game is more of a pickup game than an actual NBA game
— Clemente Almanza (@CAlmanza1007) February 17, 2023
I asked Andrew Nembhard if he had a hand in Chet Holmgren’s four All-Star player votes, and what he thinks of Chet’s game. pic.twitter.com/LFiiJlRl7R
— Rylan Stiles (@Rylan_Stiles) February 17, 2023
BREAKING: Jalen Williams tells me he is NOT wearing PJ pants to practice, he doesn’t wanna get fined. But he does have his pajama pants with him. pic.twitter.com/cqht90BbT0
— Rylan Stiles (@Rylan_Stiles) February 17, 2023
Jalen Williams on his motivation to become an All Star down the road pic.twitter.com/uKE6AKWvsw
— Andrew Schlecht (@AndrewKSchlecht) February 17, 2023