All-Star Ballots.........

[THE HCP]

First Ballot All-Star Returns are in! Current leaders...

East: LeBron, George, Melo, Wade, Kyrie
West: Durant, Howard, Blake, Kobe, CP3

 

[THE HCP]

Aldridge 8th among Western Conference frontcourt players in All-Star voting (132,818). Lillard is 10th among backcourt players (55,847).

 

[Strenuus]

Yeah. Now you see why everyone thinks the All Star Ballots are a joke.

 

[dviss1]

I think fans should only get to vote one time. Fucking Kobe..... REALLY PEOPLE???

 

[santeesioux]

And that's why bothering to vote is a waste of time.

 

[Draco]

All star voting is stupid. Kobe? Are you kidding me, he hasn't won a single game with his team.

 

[santeesioux]

All star.

 

[THE HCP]

Jeremy Lin has more votes (240,404) than his Rockets teammate James Harden (198,667)

 

[THE HCP]

 

[THE HCP]

 

[magnifier661]

Fan voting is just stupid

 

[Pinwheel1]

At first when I read "Blake" I thought it was Steve. And it wouldn't have surprised me to see he or Lin in the starting lineup.

 

[magnifier661]

Lmao!!! Rubio has more votes than Lillard? wtf Nash is higher too?!?! I hate fan voting

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

waste of time

 

[tlongII]

Fucking China.

 

[Strenuus]

If they can vote for someone whose played a grand total of 2 games in the season, maybe we should vote for Meyers Lenoard 500 thousand times?

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

God the people are so stupid. I bet a lot of people just spam the Laker and Clipper players then you have the Asian vote.

All-Star's should be determined by 1/3 fan vote, 1/3 players, and 1/3 by the the GMs/coaches.

 

[magnifier661]

It would be soooo awesome if someone knew how to hack the system and have only scrubs on really small market teams win. 1,000,000 votes for Allen crabbe!

 

[magnifier661]

God the people are so stupid. I bet a lot of people just spam the Laker and Clipper players then you have the Asian vote.

All-Star's should be determined by 1/3 fan vote, 1/3 players, and 1/3 the coach.

I would say 1/3 fans, 1/3 media and 1/3 coaches. The players shouldn't be able to vote IMO

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

I would say 1/3 fans, 1/3 media and 1/3 coaches. The players shouldn't be able to vote IMO

I absolutely believe the players should have a say. They're the ones playing against these 'All-Stars'.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I would say 1/3 fans, 1/3 media and 1/3 coaches. The players shouldn't be able to vote IMO

I disagree. I think it should be split four ways. 1/4 fans, 1/4 team announcers and select local media members combined, 1/4 head coaches, and 1/4 players. Players, coaches, and announcers would not be allowed to vote for players on their own team.

And I should have veto authority.

 

[noknobs]

Well Aldridge should now be fully motivated for tonight, hopefully Lillard, Batum and Wesley as well.

 

[dviss1]

Everyone (Fans, Media, Coaches, Players) should get 1 vote. 1 vote for every starter. Coaches only get to vote for the Bench.

That would clear up a lot of bullshit and make the voting faster and more streamlined.

 

[Strenuus]

I think the easiest thing to do would to just have a minimum games limit to have the votes "start counting". Say, 20?

But, they never will.

 

[Reep]

Jeremy Lin has more votes (240,404) than his Rockets teammate James Harden (198,667)

The Yao factor.

 

[Strenuus]

Heh. Lin is on the bench. That's funny.

Also, on nba.com, on the schedule ticker on the home page, it doesn't even have our game listed. It has a spot for it, but it's not showing it.

 

[Natebishop3]

I would just like to point out, that complaining about the voting does nothing to change it.

How many of you have voted?

It's not like there are a ton of votes. The top vote getters end up with like 1.5 million votes. That's nothing. That's not even a full 1% of the population in the US.

Blake Griffin is leading Aldridge by 160k roughly. How many people go to a Blazers game? We can't get him another 160k votes? The reason why we never win is because nobody votes. We always just say, "oh this shit is stupid. Our guys never win." How many people actually vote though? It's like complaining about who won the election, but you didn't vote for the other guy.

Get out and vote.

 

[Strenuus]

Well, given the track record, do you think people are going to be motivated to vote for a losing cause year after year? Elections are the entirety of america over 18 years old. the NBA is a niche of america that watches it. It's a big difference.

 

[Natebishop3]

Well, given the track record, do you think people are going to be motivated to vote for a losing cause year after year? Elections are the entirety of america over 18 years old. the NBA is a niche of america that watches it. It's a big difference.

Can't complain if you don't vote!

 

[blazedanugz]

i was nervous about this game tonight on national television until i saw these numbers....lma 8th? yikes..... i feel much more confident about us winning tonight now. honestly i think we handle this game tonight, maybe not blow them out but be in control. theyre gonna come out pissed off tonight.
NASH AND RUBIO INFRONT OF LILLARD????? lillards going for 30 tonight