Michael Carter-Williams has a new team ... at least for one night.
The Sixers' rookie point guard was selected by Team Webber on Thursday night for the 2014 BBVA Compass Rising Stars Game. The game is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 14 to kick off the league's All-Star Weekend. Carter-Williams will also participate in the Taco Bell Skills Challenge on Feb. 15.
Carter-Williams was selected third in a pool of 18 rookies and sophomores. He went after New Orleans' Anthony Davis and Portland's Damian Lillard.
Carter-Williams is having a strong first year in the league. He is regarded as the front runner for Rookie of the Year by averaging 17.2 points, 6.6 assists and 5.4 rebounds per game.
MCW is joined on Team Webber by Davis, New York's Tim Hardaway Jr., Utah's Trey Burke, Boston's Jared Sullinger, Brooklyn's Mason Plumlee, Orlando's Victor Oladipo, Oklahoma City's Steven Adams and Boston's Kelly Olynyk.
They will face off against Team Hill, which consists of Lillard, Washington's Bradley Beal, Detroit's Andre Drummond, Golden State's Harrison Barnes, Houston's Terrence Jones, Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo, Toronto's Jonas Valanciunas, Cleveland's Dion Waiters and Atlanta's Pero Antic.
The Taco Bells Skills Challenge is introducing a new format that features four teams of two players each competing in two rounds of a timed relay-style course. Players show off their dribbling, passing and shooting in the competition. The fastest time from each conference advances to the final before the two teams from the East and the West battle to determine a winner.
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For the Skills Challenge, Carter-Williams will team up with Antetokounmpo, Oladipo and Toronto's DeMar DeRozan for the Eastern Conference.
Lillard, Burke, Oklahoma City's Reggie Jackson and Phoenix's Goran Dragic make up the Western Conference squad.