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Tyrese Maxey Earns NBA Rising Stars Invite

When the 2022 NBA All-Star activities occur in Cleveland later this month, the Philadelphia 76ers will be represented by a couple of players. Last week, it was
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Tyrese Maxey Earns NBA Rising Stars Invite
Tyrese Maxey Earns NBA Rising Stars Invite

When the 2022 NBA All-Star activities occur in Cleveland later this month, the Philadelphia 76ers will be represented by a couple of players. Last week, it was announced that Sixers center Joel Embiid would be an All-Star starter for the fourth time in his career. In total, Embiid had five All-Star nods so far in his career.

While the Sixers won't have any other representatives in the main event, they will have a player involved with the 2022 NBA Rising Stars Challenge. On Tuesday, the NBA announced the Rookies' and the Sophomores' rosters.

To no surprise, Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey will make his first appearance at All-Star weekend as he cracked the Sophomores' player pool.

Maxey will join the likings of Toronto's Precious Achiuwa, Orlando's Cole Anthony, Charlotte's LaMelo Ball, Memphis' Desmond Bane, Detroit's Saddiq Bey, and Isaiah Stewart, Minnesota's Anthony Edwards, and Jaden McDaniels, Sacramento's Tyrese Haliburton, Cleveland's Isaac Okoro, and Houston's Jae'Sean Tate.

With his nod, Maxey becomes the 18th member of the Sixers' organization to be named a rising star. He's the first to be selected for the event since Ben Simmons was entered in 2019.

Maxey might not be the first member of the Sixers to make it to the Rising Stars game, but he will be the first member of the organization to play with the new format.

Instead of a regular matchup between Rookies and Sophomores, there will be four seven-player teams competing in a mini-tournament consisting of three games. Each game will be played to a Final Target Score, meaning that a game will end with a made basket or a made free throw instead of with the clock running out, per the NBA.

Teams will be put together through a draft process with the selections being made by NBA assistant coaches. While the draft date has yet to be announced, the actual tournament itself will take place on February 18 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Justin Grasso covers the Philadelphia 76ers for Sports Illustrated. You can follow him for live updates on Twitter: @JGrasso_.

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Justin Grasso was a credentialed writer and publisher covering the Philadelphia 76ers for Sports Illustrated’s Philadelphia 76ers On SI Network. Grasso got his start in sports media in 2016 with FantasyPros, working the news desk, providing game-by-game player analysis and updates on the Portland Trail Blazers and the Golden State Warriors. By 2017, he joined FanSided’s Philadelphia Eagles site as a staff writer. After spending one season covering the Eagles as a staff writer, Grasso was promoted to become the site’s Co-Editor. For the next two NFL seasons, he covered the Eagles closely before broadening his NFL coverage. For a brief stint, Grasso covered the NFL on a national basis after joining Heavy.com as an NFL news desk writer. In 2019, Grasso joined the 76ers' beat on a part-time basis, stepping into a role with South Jersey’s 97.3 ESPN. Ahead of the 2019-2020 NBA season, he concluded a three-year stint covering the Eagles and joined the Sixers beat full-time. Grasso has covered the 76ers exclusively since then for Sports Illustrated. He is a member of the Pro Basketball Writers Association. Twitter: @JGrasso_ Instagram: @JGrassoMedia Threads: @JGrassoMedia

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