Which Cavs players made the most career All-Star games?

Which Cavs players made the most All-Star games on any team?

Let’s broaden the scope. Out of the 19 players to make an All-Star Team with the Cavs, many of them added other All-Star appearances while with other teams. To that end, let’s see which Cavs had the most total All-Star appearances with any team.

Editor’s Note: This list does not include players like Rajon Rondo, who made 100 percent of their All-Star teams with other franchises but played minutes on the Cavs at some point.

Only an All-Star in Cleveland

Garland, Allen, Williams, Ilgauskas, Brandon, Hill, Price, Daugherty, Mitchell, Russell, Carr, Beard, Johnson

13 of the 19 Cavaliers All-Stars did not make a team with another franchise. This includes a collection of players who spent their entire primes in Cleveland (such as Mark Price and Zydrunas Ilgauskas) and players such as Mo Williams and Mike Mitchell that were sub-All Stars most of their careers but happened to break through while with the Cavs. Hopefully Garland and Allen will never leave this list.

Best Years Elsewhere

Shawn Kemp (6 total), Lenny Wilkens (9 total)

Shawn Kemp starred with the Seattle SuperSonics as an above-the-rim forward shaking the entire backboard with his thunderous dunks. He made five consecutive All-Star Teams with the Sonics in the prime of his career before joining the Cavaliers and making one final appearance.

Lenny Wilkens traveled a similar path to Kemp, although he was a Hall of Fame point guard and not a high-flying dunker. Wilkens starred throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s for the St. Louis Hawks and Seattle SuperSonics, making eight All-Star Games. When he joined the Cavs in the twilight of his career he made one final All-Star Game before his game dropped off precipitously.

Great Everywhere

Larry Nance (3 total), Kevin Love (5 total), Kyrie Irving (8 total)

Larry Nance and Kevin Love played for the Cavs at very different times, but their stories are similar. They were prolific power forwards in the Western Conference who made at least one All-Star Game (one for Nance, three for Love) before joining an ensemble cast in Cleveland to compete for a title. Kyrie Irving, by contrast, started in Cleveland with four All-Star appearances before leaving, touring the Atlantic seaboard and racking up another four nods.

The Greatest Ever

LeBron James (18 total)

LeBron James first made an All-Star Game in his age-20 season…and has not missed it since. He is perennially an All-Star Starter as well. He made it six-straight seasons in Cleveland, four-straight in Miami, four-straight in Cleveland Part 2, and finally all four of his seasons in Los Angeles thus far. When will it end? Given his popularity and the impossibly long prime he still enjoys, it could be a number of seasons yet.

For those keeping track at home, Brad Daugherty cames in second to LeBron James in All-Star appearances with the Cavs, and Lenny Wilkens totaled the most All-Star accolades when you consider an entire career — again, second to LeBron. James is something unique, and it’s unlikely he will be matched by any Cavs player, current or future. Second place? That’s in reach for this talented group of youngsters.