Milwaukee Bucks: Best players to never make an All-Star appearance

Milwaukee Bucks: Best players to never make an All-Star appearance – Sam Cassell

Even though he already was an NBA champion, everything changed for Sam Cassell when he arrived to the Bucks via trade midway through the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season.

Cassell’s presence brought on the Bucks’ ‘Big 3’ era at the turn of the century and with his blend of scoring and patient playmaking, the man known as ‘Sam I Am’ really orchestrated the Bucks’ high-powered offense, along with Ray Allen and Glenn Robinson. Unlike Allen and Robinson, though, Cassell never went on join his star teammates in any All-Star Game throughout his four-and-a-half years in Milwaukee.

That came in spite of Cassell improving his scoring output and effective field goal percentage year over year and even averaging as many as nine assists per game for the 1999-2000 season, the second-highest mark behind then-Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Jason Kidd that year.

With that said, Cassell did earn the eighth-most amount of votes for guards in the Eastern Conference for the 99-00 season and ninth-highest amount of votes of East guards for the 2001-02 season.

Again, the factor of the Bucks’ team success informed Cassell not being able to join his teammates in this regard. It wasn’t until right after Cassell departed Milwaukee that he went on to make his lone All-Star appearance during his career year with the Minnesota Timberwolves for the 2003-04 season.