The NBA will open its All-Star voting on Dec. 21, which basically means the league is begging Andy and Dan to build a 24-player pool for February’s showcase.

Though the Association has tweaked the rules, allowing for captains who select their teammates irrespective of conference affiliation, 12 players from both the East and West must still be up for consideration: two starting guards, three starting frontcourt members, two reserve guards, three reserve froncourt contributors and two wild-card picks.

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Players will be selected based off their performance to date, which takes into account health, team success and recent hot or cold stretches. Some inclusions are no-brainers, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t say there were some tough cuts.

Do the Oklahoma City Thunder even deserve to have an All-Star? Can both the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets get three representatives? Has Andre Drummond done enough to usurp guys like Kristaps Porzingis and Joel Embiid? Who should join LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo in the East’s starting frontcourt? Are DeMar DeRozan and Kemba Walker All-Stars this year?

Before all this, though, we must address the one-eyebrowed pterodactyl in the room: Anthony Davis.

According to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, several NBA teams remain “obsessed” with poaching him from the New Orleans Pelicans—the Boston Celtics among them. Can anyone convince the Pellies to give up on him, or is this just noise?