Youngest Players To Make NBA All Star Game | StatMuse (2024)

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Who is the youngest player to make the NBA All-Star Game? ›

Kobe Bryant is the youngest in an All-Star Game. He was 19 years and 169 days old against the East on February 8, 1998.

Derrick Rose and Wes Unseld are tied for the youngest MVPs in All-Star Games. They were 22 years old.

The youngest player ever to play in the NBA was Andrew Bynum, who played his first game only six days after his 18th birthday. The oldest active player is LeBron James, who is currently 39 years, 145 days old.

While rookie starlets have made waves in the sport over the past few years (Tre Young and Luka Doncic the two most recent examples), only two first-year players have been named All-Stars since the turn of the millennium.

Andrew Bynum: 18 years, 6 days

However, Bynum would later become an All-Star and help the Lakers win two championships. Over his nine-year NBA career, Bynum averaged 11.5 points, 7.7 rebounds and 1.6 blocks while shooting 55.6% from the field.

Derrick Rose became the youngest player to ever win the award at age 22.

As for the oldest NBA MVP winner, that is Karl Malone, who was 35 years of age when he claimed the individual prize for his efforts with the Utah Jazz in 1998/99. Michael Jordan also won an NBA MVP at an old age, doing so aged 34 with the Chicago Bulls in the 1997/98 season.

Johnson is the only rookie ever to win the award, as well as the youngest at 20 years and 276 days old. In 1985, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the oldest to win at 38 years and 54 days old. Andre Iguodala is the only winner to have not started every game in the series.

Who is the youngest player in the NBA ever? Andrew Bynum is the youngest player to have ever appeared in a regular season game at 18 years and six days old. The Los Angeles Lakers center was born on Oct. 27, 1987, and entered the NBA draft straight out of high school in 2005.

Who has the longest NBA career? ›

Kobe Bryant was only 17 years old when he was drafted into the NBA in 1996. At the time, he was the youngest player ever to be drafted by an NBA team. This was a bold move for Bryant, as he was foregoing a college education to enter the league.

Kobe Bryant is the youngest All-Star in a season. He was 19 years old in 1997-98.

The last time LeBron wasn't an All-Star was in his rookie season in 2003-2004. In each of the 19 years since, he's been named as one of the NBA's best. For reference, the youngest player currently in the NBA is Detroit's Jalen Duren, who was born on November 18, 2003.

Boston Celtics center Bill Russell holds the record for the most NBA championships won with 11 titles during his 13-year playing career.

A trio of Arizona guys in Mike Bibby, Jason Terry, and to a lesser extent Richard Jefferson come to mind.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the oldest in an All-Star Game. He was 41 years and 302 days old against the East on February 12, 1989.

Figure 1 shows a graph of the NBA All-Star selected players and their age for the past 70 years. We see that the most talented players are usually in the age range of 26-29, however there are years in which the average age has risen and fallen tremendously.