​James Herbert of CBSSports.com joins the podcast to pick All-Star reserves for the 2018 NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles. Real reserve picks will be announced Tuesday night.

  Here is the episode breakdown:    0:00 -- Intros and getting creative with actual NBA benches 3:00 -- Starting with the East All-Star reserves 4:30 -- Did Al Horford have a case as a starter over Joel Embiid? 7:40 -- Players had Kristaps Porzingis over Joel Embiid 10:50 -- The case for Andre Drummond and his resurgence 15:20 -- Victor Oladipo is an All-Star and maybe the most improved player 18:35 -- Kyle Lowry has easily been an All-Star 19:40 -- First time All-Star Bradley Beal? 22:30 -- Kemba Walker vs John Wall for the final spot in the East 26:30 -- The "Sorry you're not an All-Star" gift basket idea 27:00 -- Draft live read (promo code: talkhoops) 29:10 -- Seat Geek live read (promo code: talkhoops) 32:30 -- Western Conference All-Star reserve selections 33:00 -- Jimmy Butler is a lock 34:50 -- Chris Paul's missed time shouldn't keep him from making it 40:20 -- Draymond Green makes it for us 42:10 -- Karl-Anthony Towns makes his first All-Star Game for us 48:20 -- Russell Westbrook gets to be an angry reserve 51:50 -- Bote in coaches to take care of representing good teams we don't want players from 54:00 -- LaMarcus Aldridge vs Paul George 57:15 -- The case for Damian Lillard 59:50 -- The case for Lou Williams 1:02:25 -- Is Klay Thompson getting snubbed? Beijing All-Star Game coming? 1:03:50 -- Biggest snubs from our lists? 1:05:20 -- Donovan Mitchell, Ben Simmons, and Jayson Tatum will be there soon 1:08:00 -- Marc Gasol for a special All-Star event? 1:10:30 -- Outros