NBA All-Star Voting: 1st Ballot Returns

[Basel]

I love how Kobe and LeBron are probably the two most hated players in the league amongst casual fans and yet they're still the top two in votes.

[R-Star]

You have to be popular and great to be hated.

[Floods]

My thoughts are the ASG has been a crock for a long time now.

[Dornado]

I'm going to be a homer and say that Joakim Noah deserves more consideration. (rounding because I'm too lazy to look it up) 14 ppg 10.5 rpg 4 apg and 2 bpg... on a team that isn't great but is still leading its division... **** Kevin Garnett.

[kbdullah]

I forgot coaches vote for the backup players.

[Bogg]

Eh, this is why we have all-nba teams. The all-star game is about who people want to see, the all-NBA, all-defense, and all-rookie teams are about who was the best.

[XxIrvingxX]

Griffin should not be on this list, Jeremy Lin being ahead of Harden and Westbrook is a joke in of itself, and where the **** is Kevin Love? I know he was injured for a good amount of time but cmon, it's time to undo the wrongings of having Blake Griffin start over him last year by giving him the starting nod this year.

[XxIrvingxX]

Oh and Pau is on this list? Really...the guy who was considered being traded for playing poorly is on the list?!

[Bogg]

Originally Posted by XxIrvingxX

and where the **** is Kevin Love?

White Howard's busy throwing his teammates under the bus. I support him not starting the all-star game for the same reason I support Tyson Chandler winning DPOY over Dwight.

[R-Star]

"I don't like people who misbehave." Bogg-Star

[XxIrvingxX]

Originally Posted by Bogg

White Howard's busy throwing his teammates under the bus. I support him not starting the all-star game for the same reason I support Tyson Chandler winning DPOY over Dwight.

How exactly is he the "white" version of Howard? He sure as hell doesn't do as much stupid shit as Howard does when it comes to the media, he didn't demand a trade, he just wants a playoff team, he can actually shoot and unlike Howard he doesn't play defense.

At least TRY to make a good comparison.

[Bogg]

Originally Posted by XxIrvingxX

How exactly is he the "white" version of Howard? He sure as hell doesn't do as much stupid shit as Howard does when it comes to the media, he didn't demand a trade, he just wants a playoff team, he can actually shoot and unlike Howard he doesn't play defense.

At least TRY to make a good comparison.

He's been openly bitching to the media for a year and a half about his teammates and his organization, and is obviously laying the groundwork to try and force his way out of town without being blamed for it, despite actually having a playoff squad around him at this point. He's doing what Howard did in Orlando over the past two years.

"Dwight" sounds like "white". Kevin Love is white, and he's re-enacting Dwight's time in Orlando. That's the joke. Surely you're not dumb enough to think I was saying they were the same player on the court.

[XxIrvingxX]

Originally Posted by Bogg

He's been openly bitching to the media for a year and a half about his teammates and his organization, and is obviously laying the groundwork to try and force his way out of town without being blamed for it, despite actually having a playoff squad around him at this point. He's doing what Howard did in Orlando over the past two years.

"Dwight" sounds like "white". Kevin Love is white, and he's re-enacting Dwight's time in Orlando. That's the joke. Surely you're not dumb enough to think I was saying they were the same player on the court.

Not on the court, off the court. And the amount of bitching, unless there's an awful lot of things that I'm missing here, that Love has done hasn't been anywhere close to what Howard has done.

[Bogg]

Originally Posted by XxIrvingxX

Not on the court, off the court. And the amount of bitching, unless there's an awful lot of things that I'm missing here, that Love has done hasn't been anywhere close to what Howard has done.

He started up last summer when working out with the national team about how everyone else was on winning teams and he wasn't, and how he didn't like his GM. He's been intermittently feeding negative information ever since. Honestly, I don't think Dwight ever publicly said the type of things that Love did in his latest media piece. Love might be worse, ESPN just hasn't made as big of a deal out of it.

[R-Star]

Originally Posted by Bogg

He started up last summer when working out with the national team about how everyone else was on winning teams and he wasn't, and how he didn't like his GM. He's been intermittently feeding negative information ever since. Honestly, I don't think Dwight ever publicly said the type of things that Love did in his latest media piece. Love might be worse, ESPN just hasn't made as big of a deal out of it.

I fully expect a "Where will Kevin Love end up?" thread this summer.