It's strange having the NBA trade deadline so close to the All-Star break. The mid-season break provides a natural checkpoint to take stock of where every team sits, and yet -- especially given the monumental activity around this year's deadline in both quantity and quality of players -- a lot of teams will look vastly different over the final two months of the season.

From the legit snubs to the unlikely candidates, we make the case for each team's top player who wasn't selected an All-Star.

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It’s the NBA All-Star break, and when teams resume play, we’ll see a two-month sprint toward the regular season’s finish line. By now, we have an idea of what each team is and isn’t and whether the remaining 25-30 games should be focused on title contention,