Garnett and LBJ would and will get in regardless of that video.... CB4 will be there as a reserve and better get used to it as long as Garnett and LBJ are in the east....
It is a crime that Nash is not higher, the guy is the best Point guard in the league hands down!
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Squally wrote:Garnett and LBJ would and will get in regardless of that video.... CB4 will be there as a reserve and better get used to it as long as Garnett and LBJ are in the east....
It is a crime that Nash is not higher, the guy is the best Point guard in the league hands down!
This is why I oppose the idea of two guards, two forwards and one centre on the ballot. It should be PG, SG, SG, PF, C. Period. It happens almost every year, it seems, that the West starts two SGs, usually Kobe (deserved) and T-Mac (thank you China!).
All-Star games are so much more fun with actual point guards on the floor tossing lobs to players.
That would leave Nash to fight it out with Parker, Paul and Williams, but you'd think he'd be a shoe-in*. That would almost guarantee Kidd a yearly spot, but that's well deserved as well, despite his playing for New Jersey.
* EDIT: At least until Paul and Williams come into their own as Nash winds down his career.
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Honestly, we should all unite and vote. Not to get Bosh in, but to get TMAC OUT!
We should decide on either Nash or Iverson, who are both deserving all stars and are next in line. I don't have a preference either way as AI is my favorite player and Nash is a Canadian hero.
In fact, Kobe is in for sure, we should just vote for the both Nash and AI at the guard spots for the West.
We should decide on either Nash or Iverson, who are both deserving all stars and are next in line. I don't have a preference either way as AI is my favorite player and Nash is a Canadian hero.
In fact, Kobe is in for sure, we should just vote for the both Nash and AI at the guard spots for the West.
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Yuri Vaultin wrote:Makes you wonder where the Italian and Spanish fans are hiding.
Tom Baker wrote:Or the Canadian fans, period.
Italy + Spain + Canada is still only about 135 million, which is about 10% of China's population.
Add to that fact that basketball in Italy, Spain and Canada plays second fiddle to other sports and it's easy to see why the populace wouldn't really do all that much to sway voting.
Not to say that the Chinese are basketball fans first and foremost, or that they would even attempt to intentionally sway the voting - but with that number of even casual followers, it really doesn't take much effort. There are only a few million people worldwide who actually vote, so if even 500,000 of them are from China (a paltry % of 1.3 billion), that sways the polls dramatically with little effort. It would take a huge, huge effort to get that amount of people to vote in Canada (or Italy or Spain).
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