NBA All-Star a joke?

[tidwell]

Arenas should be a starter over Vince Carter, which is who he beat out late in the voting. Aside from Shaq, the East starters are/seem correct. Insert Howard for Shaq and it'd be perfect.

 

[milohimself]

Especially if they trade for Garnett or Gasol, eh? How much/who do you think they'd have to give up to pull off a trade for one of those guys?

I'm hearing Luol Deng and a first round draft pick for Gasol, and something else like Deng, Hinrich and a decent player/high draft pick for Garnett.

 

[checkerboard_charly]

NBA sucks ass. Jordan left and so did most of the fans.


Dwayne Wade over Arenas 10 times out of 10. Wade is money in the playoffs. Arenas has choked.


How the f*** is Steve Nash not a starter? He is well on his way to a #rd straight MVP.

Just cant stand watching it anymore though. I think the same players have made the starting team for 20 straight years. Fans are dumb.

 

[milohimself]

NBA sucks ass. Jordan left and so did most of the fans.


Dwayne Wade over Arenas 10 times out of 10. Wade is money in the playoffs. Arenas has choked.


How the f*** is Steve Nash not a starter? He is well on his way to a #rd straight MVP.

Just cant stand watching it anymore though. I think the same players have made the starting team for 20 straight years. Fans are dumb.

Yeah... They need to take away the fan vote. I think most of us can agree on that.

 

[tvolsfan]

The Heat do not have the motivation they did last year. All of those veterans who were chasing a ring reached their goal. I would not be one bit surprised if the young guys from Cleveland or Chicago topple Detroit and Miami and win the East.

It's possible with LeBron. :dance2:

 

[volhoopsfan001]

It all comes down to which side of the argument you are on. Is the All-Star game played for the fans or should it be a reward for the players that are having a good year?

I agree that Shaq shouldn't be on this year's team when he has played very little. That's what happens when the fans vote, though, it just becomes a popularity contest, especially with the younger voters, who often times probably actually watch very few games.

On the Shaq situation, they could put in some type of rule that to be elligible for the All-Star game that the player has to have played a certain percent of their team's games.

Personally, I would like to see it be a reward for the players that are having a good year, and not have basically the same rosters every years. To help the overall situation, maybe they should look at implementing a voting system where the players vote as well and their votes would count as 33% or even 50% of the final vote. Just an idea, but I usually watch very little, if any, of the NBA All-Star game anyway.