Lou Williams is having the best year of his career with the Los Angeles Clippers and he wants to be recognised for his play on the court.

The veteran is averaging a career-high 23.4 points, 5.0 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game this year and has been instrumental in helping the Clippers go above .500 and put themselves in contention for an unlikely playoff berth.

Since the start of the calendar year, Williams has been on a tear and has produced some stunning performances.

In the 10 games since the start of the new year, the 31-year-old has been lights out, scoring less than 25 points just twice in that stretch.

His most recent display even put him in elite company with the game's greatest ever player, Michael Jordan.

He became the first player since MJ in 1988 to score 30 or more points and grab 10 steals in the same game.

Williams believes all of this should be enough to earn him his first All-Star appearance in L.A. next month.

"I'll be proud if I make it," Williams told the Los Angeles Times' Broderick Turner. "Honestly, I deserve it. I rarely speak about myself because I've never set personal goals. Being an All-Star wasn't even on my radar this year.

"But with what this team has been through this year with injuries, with so many different lineups and still having an opportunity to compete for the playoffs and to put ourselves over .500 at this point, I think I've got something to do with that."

The shooting guard, however, will struggle to beat off competition from other top players in his position for a place among the reserves.

With Stephen Curry and James Harden taking the two starting spots, that now leaves just a couple of places on the bench.

He will be fighting with the likes of Russell Westbrook, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler, Chris Paul and Damian Lillard, which would make his chances quite slim.

But Williams is hopeful that his numbers in January will count for something as he's leading the league in scoring during the month.

The silky scorer is averaging 30.1 points in the 10 games he's featured in and he ranks ahead of Curry, Anthony Davis, DeMar DeRozan and Kevin Durant.

“My play over the last six weeks or so has been pretty good for our team,” Williams said. “Hopefully the coaches do right by that and just see the body of work that I’ve been able to put together.”

The All-Star reserves will be revealed on Thursday and there are bound to be some interesting omissions that'll undoubtedly cause debate.

Williams definitely deserves to be in the conversation but with so much talent in the guard positions, it'll be intriguing to discover whether the coaches agree that he should get his first nod.