Updated All Star Returns

Storm Surge · Post #1 » by **Storm Surge** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:37 pm

http://www.nba.com/2008/news/12/25/1225 ... index.html

NOTABLE:
T-Mac passes up Chris Paul for the starting nod

Yi is 3rd in the voting, about 140K behind KG. Still way ahead of Bosh and Paul Pierce and every other player that is more deserving than him.

Brandon Roy doesn't have any fans :lol:

Baller 24 · Post #2 » by **Baller 24** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:40 pm

LOL....what do you people see in T-Mac? he clearly doesn't even deserve to go to the game, lawlz at his popularity of the old.

farzi · Post #3 » by **farzi** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:43 pm

Brandon drops 52 and still can't beat out Rafer freaking Alston

Post #4 » by **MagicMadness** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:44 pm

I'm surprised that T-Mac is still so popular.

Good to see Devin Harris' vote totals sky rocket. Still don't understand how Ridnour is ahead of guys like Johnson and Nelson. I'd add Calderon to that list, but he and the Raps have been disappointing, so I'm not really surprised.

Arenas = :nonono:

Napoleon7 · Post #5 » by **Napoleon7** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:48 pm

Brandon Roy s arguably the 3rd best SG in the league.
Nations sleeping on this player.

Roy will be lacing them up in Phoenix.
Their is absolutely ZERO doubt that he will left off the team.
Atleast he will be acknowledged by the coaches and voted in.

mr_sunshine · Post #6 » by **mr_sunshine** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:49 pm

The all-star game is a fraud anyway. Who gives a damn? :\

Don Draper · Post #7 » by **Don Draper** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:49 pm

Those Chinese voters are really destroying the validity of All-Star game voting. No way McGrady should be starting over Paul or Roy. T-Mac will probably decline to play so it doesn't really make a big difference.

SportsWorld · Post #8 » by **SportsWorld** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:55 pm

Thank God Gilbert Arenas is in 6th place for East Guards. What a **** joke.

EvadedHavoc · Post #9 » by **EvadedHavoc** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:55 pm

What a joke. If Yi gets in and B.Roy doesnt i wont even watch the game.

Fobbie · Post #10 » by **Fobbie** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:02 pm

^^ game will still be play, people will still be watching. I'm sure you weren't calling it a joke last year when iROY got in when clearly he shouldn't have.

EGame · Post #11 » by **EGame** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:07 pm

Alston is over Roy? Wow the fans know jack squat about basketball. The All Star game should just be abolished alltogether though since the fans would be all like pissy and stuff if their voting rights got taken away from then and the all stars were hand picked by the NBA, but as I said, the fans know jack squat and should not be voting AT ALL.

Dirk_diggler_41 · Post #12 » by **Dirk_diggler_41** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:09 pm

MagicMadness wrote:I'm surprised that T-Mac is still so popular.

He plays with Yao and there are no Chinese guards.

EvadedHavoc · Post #13 » by **EvadedHavoc** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:11 pm

Fobbie wrote:^^ game will still be play, people will still be watching. I'm sure you weren't calling it a joke last year when iROY got in when clearly he shouldn't have.

B.Roy being voted in last year is by far more tolerable then Yi Jianlian being voted in this year.

Post #14 » by **Spykes** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:14 pm

Fan voting for the ASG is a complete joke.

That said, it does make me laugh seeing freakin' Yi Jianlian getting so many votes.

EGame · Post #15 » by **EGame** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:14 pm

mr_sunshine wrote:The all-star game is a fraud anyway. Who gives a damn? :\

I normally don't care either, but what got to me about this years voting is how Rafer Alston is ahead of Roy. a freaking SCRUB is ahead of Roy. The fans who vote really show there IQ when it comes to basketball. So much ignorance.

Post #16 » by **Spykes** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:16 pm

EGame wrote:
mr_sunshine wrote:The all-star game is a fraud anyway. Who gives a damn? :\

I normally don't care either, but what got to me about this years voting is how Rafer Alston is ahead of Roy. a freaking SCRUB is ahead of Roy. The fans who vote really show there IQ when it comes to basketball. So much ignorance.

It's not even just Roy, Alston is also ahead of Billups, which is a joke.

EGame · Post #17 » by **EGame** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:18 pm

Yeah that is riduculous as well. But I am a Blazers and Roy fan so I care more about that than Billups getting.

But year it is a crying shame that the fans control the starters and whatnot for this game.

Post #18 » by **kno** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:09 pm

Where are the posters that were arguing last year that voters over in China didnt have an effect on the ASG voting?

Post #19 » by **Spykes** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:19 pm

EGame wrote:Yeah that is riduculous as well. But I am a Blazers and Roy fan so I care more about that than Billups getting. But year it is a crying shame that the fans control the starters and whatnot for this game.

I don't particularly care if Billups gets in either, it's just stupid that Alston is getting so many votes compared to players who are WAY more deserving.

EtchenBa · Post #20 » by **EtchenBa** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:42 pm

Fobbie wrote:^^ game will still be play, people will still be watching. I'm sure you weren't calling it a joke last year when iROY got in when clearly he shouldn't have.

Yeah, because a $200 piece of technology could REALLY persuade coaches that make millions every year... :roll:

And it's not like Roy was leading his team on a 13 game winning streak or something, right?