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Re: NBA ASG Mini Rant

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JosamaBinLaden is not online. JosamaBinLaden
Joined: 04 Aug 2014
Total Posts: 298
15 Dec 2013 11:09 PM
The All Star voting system is a joke.. It's more of a popularity contest than a ballot where individual and team success is celebrated in the form of an All Star starter selection. Here's my mini rant on the subject:

1. Lamarcus Aldridge is ranked EIGHTH in West frontcourt voting. LA has led the up and coming Trail Blazers to the second best record in the NBA, while putting up beast numbers, earning well deserved recognition daily by NBA analysts, bloggers and enthusiasts alike in MVP conversation; he also heard MVP chants from his home crowd after leading his team to a grind-it-out win over the Houston Rockets a few nights ago. Despite all this, PAU GASOL HAS MORE VOTES THAN HIM (133,199 > 132,818). As small of a vote advantage as it may be, voters must be brainless if they believe that Pau is better than LA; or (the more likely alternative) these votes are simply coming from biased Lakers fans who can't seem to shake the fact that Pau is past his best, having a terrible year with LAL and will either be traded or he will walk come the summer of 2014. Life's not fair.

2. Jeremy Lin has more votes than James Harden. (240,404 > 198,667). This ballot tragedy further reinforces the statement I previously made, which was that the NBA Ballot system is a popularity contest. Jeremy had a few nice games for the Rockets while The Bearded One was out with injury, but in no universe is he better and more deserving of starting ahead of Harden in the All Star game (let alone play in the All Star game). The majority of Lin's votes will have come from the Asian population, who idolize him as the second coming of Yao Ming (though 1 ft+ shorter). We saw Jeremy's reception from NBA fans in Taiwan - hell, you'd think he'd be the best player in the world based off of the support and fan appreciation he received while playing that preseason matchup against the 2014 NBA finalist Indiana Pacers (yes, I just implied that the Pacers are going to the NBA Finals next year, deal with it, Heat fans). Has he played better than James Harden so far this season? No. But is James Harden as much of an international basketball symbol as Linsanity? No. Fair dinkum, indeed.

That's my rant. Not as such of a mini rant as I had initially planned, but I had to release some of that fuelled anger for this system somehow, and ranting via keyboard is my preferred method of releasing my inner demons, where others might scream into a pillow, or punch a wall, or, in Big Baby's case, smash a keyboard.
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AwesomeDeric is not online. AwesomeDeric
Joined: 26 Apr 2010
Total Posts: 23667
15 Dec 2013 11:11 PM
plus, kobe might make it, despite him playing less that 10 games.


i hate it, let someone else do it please
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dpack123 is not online. dpack123
Joined: 03 Jun 2012
Total Posts: 9009
15 Dec 2013 11:36 PM
No one cares about the ASG lol
It's just a shootout

~Proud Minnesotan~
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SirHurricane is not online. SirHurricane
Joined: 04 Oct 2011
Total Posts: 34626
15 Dec 2013 11:38 PM
i wonder if im one of the only big nba fans out there that doesnt care for the asg itself but all the other events around it like the 3-point contest, dunk contest, and celebrity game
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