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The four NBA All-Star Game head coaches will come from the coaching staffs of the teams with the best regular-season record in each conference through games played on Sunday, Feb. 2. The head coach of the leading Eastern Conference team and the head coach of the leading Western Conference team will each coach an NBA All-Star team. An assistant coach from one of those staffs will serve as head coach of the Castrol Rising Stars champion, and an assistant coach from the other staff will coach the remaining All-Star team.

keevsnick1 wrote:My first thought was Celtics should get three all stars: Tatum Brown and White, but will probably only get two. But looking at the east.... i feel like there's a shot.

There's really only eight guys I feel like are locks or close to it:

Giannis, Lillard, Tatum, Brown, Mobley, Mitchell, Brunson, KAT.

That's 2 guys from 4 of the top 5 East Teams. But then things start getting tricky. Atlanta and Miami will probably each get one guy, my guess would be Trae Young and Jimmy Butler. So that's 10 spots. Orlando should have Wagner as a lock, but given his injury status don't know what's going on with him. So for those last few spots you're looking at:

Wagner (injury ???), Siakam or Haliburton, Lavine or Vucevic, Cunningham, Maxey, Adebayo, Garland. But that's a pretty underwhelming list. None of those guys scream "absolutely has to be an all star." White would be right up there with any of them.

So there's like 8 locks then a whole lot of ehhhh.

When the NBA All-Star Game was first played in 1951, each roster was made up of 10 players. There were 11 teams in the league at the time, and while teams were allowed to start the season with 11 players on their roster, they were forced to trim down to 10 before the All-Star Game. Now let's do some math. If 20 out of 110 players made it to the first All-Star Game, just over 18 percent of the league was considered worthy of the honor when the idea was first conceived.

As the years passed, steadily fewer players relative to the size of the league made the All-Star Game. Nowadays, on a purely mathematical basis, it's almost four times as difficult to get there as it was when the game was founded....

Still, the number itself is less important than the principle guiding it. The NBA has never drawn from a wider talent pool than it does today. All 20 All-Stars in 1951 were born in the United States. In fact, 75 percent of them were born in just six states: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Kentucky and Illinois. Nine of this year's 24 selections were born in countries outside of the United States.

playa-hater wrote:

keevsnick1 wrote:My first thought was Celtics should get three all stars: Tatum Brown and White, but will probably only get two. But looking at the east.... i feel like there's a shot.

There's really only eight guys I feel like are locks or close to it:

Giannis, Lillard, Tatum, Brown, Mobley, Mitchell, Brunson, KAT.

That's 2 guys from 4 of the top 5 East Teams. But then things start getting tricky. Atlanta and Miami will probably each get one guy, my guess would be Trae Young and Jimmy Butler. So that's 10 spots. Orlando should have Wagner as a lock, but given his injury status don't know what's going on with him. So for those last few spots you're looking at:

Wagner (injury ???), Siakam or Haliburton, Lavine or Vucevic, Cunningham, Maxey, Adebayo, Garland. But that's a pretty underwhelming list. None of those guys scream "absolutely has to be an all star." White would be right up there with any of them.

So there's like 8 locks then a whole lot of ehhhh.

I am thinking/guessing Ty Herro has a shot.

Parliament10 wrote:

Tatumfor2 wrote:

Parliament10 wrote:

Did you mean to vote for Drew Peterson?

Also, am I the only one that votes for players like Colin Sexton for the west squad?

bfchs123 wrote:How does Jaylen's votes work? He has 433K in the frontcourt and 477K in the backcourt - seems like he gets kinda screwed by being in both categories

Also JT's superstardom is super underrated as we all know - consistently a top vote getter, jersey seller, etc. Obviously our fans love him but you don't get those numbers without broader appeal as well

Smart2Nesmith43 wrote:

bfchs123 wrote:How does Jaylen's votes work? He has 433K in the frontcourt and 477K in the backcourt - seems like he gets kinda screwed by being in both categories

Also JT's superstardom is super underrated as we all know - consistently a top vote getter, jersey seller, etc. Obviously our fans love him but you don't get those numbers without broader appeal as well

Not the same Jaylen

Smart2Nesmith43 wrote:

bfchs123 wrote:How does Jaylen's votes work? He has 433K in the frontcourt and 477K in the backcourt - seems like he gets kinda screwed by being in both categories

Also JT's superstardom is super underrated as we all know - consistently a top vote getter, jersey seller, etc. Obviously our fans love him but you don't get those numbers without broader appeal as well

Not the same Jaylen

keevsnick1 wrote:My first thought was Celtics should get three all stars: Tatum Brown and White, but will probably only get two. But looking at the east.... i feel like there's a shot.

There's really only eight guys I feel like are locks or close to it:

Giannis, Lillard, Tatum, Brown, Mobley, Mitchell, Brunson, KAT.

That's 2 guys from 4 of the top 5 East Teams. But then things start getting tricky. Atlanta and Miami will probably each get one guy, my guess would be Trae Young and Jimmy Butler. So that's 10 spots. Orlando should have Wagner as a lock, but given his injury status don't know what's going on with him. So for those last few spots you're looking at:

Wagner (injury ???), Siakam or Haliburton, Lavine or Vucevic, Cunningham, Maxey, Adebayo, Garland. But that's a pretty underwhelming list. None of those guys scream "absolutely has to be an all star." White would be right up there with any of them.

So there's like 8 locks then a whole lot of ehhhh.

Fencer reregistered wrote:

keevsnick1 wrote:My first thought was Celtics should get three all stars: Tatum Brown and White, but will probably only get two. But looking at the east.... i feel like there's a shot.

There's really only eight guys I feel like are locks or close to it:

Giannis, Lillard, Tatum, Brown, Mobley, Mitchell, Brunson, KAT.

That's 2 guys from 4 of the top 5 East Teams. But then things start getting tricky. Atlanta and Miami will probably each get one guy, my guess would be Trae Young and Jimmy Butler. So that's 10 spots. Orlando should have Wagner as a lock, but given his injury status don't know what's going on with him. So for those last few spots you're looking at:

Wagner (injury ???), Siakam or Haliburton, Lavine or Vucevic, Cunningham, Maxey, Adebayo, Garland. But that's a pretty underwhelming list. None of those guys scream "absolutely has to be an all star." White would be right up there with any of them.

So there's like 8 locks then a whole lot of ehhhh.

Agreed on your 8.

Also, you forgot Lamelo.

Problems in Philly, Orlando and Miami leave it wide open after that.