All-Star Game Starters

[bigbailes]

I would pile on @HCP here but I think the point has been proven with his own post about who the players voted for. The fans need a say in a made up for TV event with no real consequences. There is a reason most media members mention a guys All NBA nods over number of ASGs, unless all they have are ASG appearances.

 

[RR7]

One issue I see with media and player votes, and this probably pertains more to the media with end of season awards versus all star games, but there's a lot of players with some very large bonuses tied to getting awards and all star appearances. Think about the times we've seen players clap back at Jason Quick in Portland. I don't mean to call him out specifically, but there's someone like that in every market, and some of them might have votes How do we know they won't vindictively not vote for a guy, potentially costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars?
The league clearly worries about things like someone like Zaza getting voted in, and I'm sure a lot of it comes from fear of like a reddit style(or 4chan) backing of some weird scrub who ends up starting but...so what? It's a fan event. Most admit it's already shit. If it's supposed to be the best of the best, why vote? Just take the top say 15 scorers, and top 5 rebounders or some shit and call it a day.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

One issue I see with media and player votes, and this probably pertains more to the media with end of season awards versus all star games, but there's a lot of players with some very large bonuses tied to getting awards and all star appearances. Think about the times we've seen players clap back at Jason Quick in Portland. I don't mean to call him out specifically, but there's someone like that in every market, and some of them might have votes How do we know they won't vindictively not vote for a guy, potentially costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars?
The league clearly worries about things like someone like Zaza getting voted in, and I'm sure a lot of it comes from fear of like a reddit style(or 4chan) backing of some weird scrub who ends up starting but...so what? It's a fan event. Most admit it's already shit. If it's supposed to be the best of the best, why vote? Just take the top say 15 scorers, and top 5 rebounders or some shit and call it a day.

Players have all-star bonuses? I haven't heard of that.

Yes media all NBA votes potentially have huge changes on NBA contracts. But it's public who media votes for and since the change I don't see any super bad votes there so seems fine to me.

 

[riverman]

I don't like segregating the games into "Us vs Them" teams. If they want to play foreign teams they should be made up of players who live and play overseas. If you're in the NBA you're part of the brotherhood and the vote has nothing to do with nationality.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

I don't like segregating the games into "Us vs Them" teams. If they want to play foreign teams they should be made up of players who live and play overseas. If you're in the NBA you're part of the brotherhood and the vote has nothing to do with nationality.

The votes don't have anything to do with nationality.

There might be a couple extra selections after all the votes that Silver makes 100% himself based on nationality.