http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/0 ... -star.html
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Charlotte Bobcats guard Stephen Jackson took a nice, little vacation during the All-Star break: tropical weather, good food, umbrellas in the drinks.
He'd rather have been working. And it saddens him he might never get the chance to work the Sunday of All-Star Weekend.
"I'm not on (NBA commissioner) David Stern's favorites list because of a couple of incidents,'' Jackson said when asked why he's never been selected for an All-Star Game.
"I get really depressed when I don't get in because I think that's one of the last things on my 'to-achieve' list. I won a championship (in San Antonio) and I've gotten better every year. My last two goals are to be on first- or second-team All-NBA and to play in an All-Star Game."
Jackson is among the most accomplished players in the NBA not to have received an All-Star spot. Thumb through the NBA's top dozen scorers; only two of them - Jackson and Golden State's Monta Ellis - were overlooked this season. Ellis plays for a dreadful team, and head coaches, who select each conference's seven reserves, tend to break ties by which players' teams are winning.
This happened in '07-08 with the Warriors - a 48-win team that had zero All-Stars. Jack took it okay, but Baron Davis was clearly bitter about the whole thing and his play dropped off afterward.
Hopefully he'll snap out of it...