1st Round Of Voting Released For the 2011 NBA All-star Game
by Basketball John on Dec 16, 2010 11:35 AM MST
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PrintNo real surprises from the balloting released today. Only Deron Williams shows up on the list for the Jazz. He's listed 5th in the West for guards:
Kobe Bryant (Lakers) 722,682
Chris Paul (Hornets) 386,649
Manu Ginobili (Spurs) 230,137
Steve Nash (Suns) 190,226
Deron Williams (Jazz) 184,148
Jason Kidd (Mavericks) 141,283
Russell Westbrook (Thunder) 140,519
Eric Gordon (Clippers) 113,510
Tony Parker (Spurs) 103,238,
Derek Fisher (Lakers) 81,088
That's nearly double the 94,715 votes that he got last year at this time. He might pass Nash in the voting when all is said and done but he's not going to top the other three. It's progress I guess, right?
Neither Jefferson nor Memo crack the top 10. I would like to think that if Millsap's name had been on the ballot, he would be in right after Scola (I'm giving him the Yao vote) and ahead of Caron Butler. Even with the coaches vote, it's going to be hard for Millsap to make the team.
If Durant and Gasol hang on to the top spots, then you have Dirk who is a shoe-in, Duncan, and Melo. For the guards you have Deron, Manu, Westbrook, and Nash. That's 12 right there including the starters. That's not mentioning Blake Griffin, Scola, Odom, Love, and Jason Kidd. Yao could be the only center on the team.
That's a tough class.
UPDATE: You know, If Jefferson had been listed as a center, he would have made the top 10 as well.
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If he keeps this play up and the Jazz continue to win
He could get all-nba first team which I think is the bigger honor. That will be tough given the high number of quality guards out there right now.
by Basketball John on Dec 16, 2010 11:47 AM MST up reply actions
The thing about the All star game
Is that voting is a popularity contest. Hence, Derek Fisher get what 81,000 votes?
Also, there are a number of players who deserve the distinction of the prestige of being an All star.
For example, Kevin Love and Luis Scola are both playing at that level, yet may well miss the game.
Also, some of the voting is just a joke
In the east Shaq has almost 242k votes, while BOgut only has about 48k, Noah about 97k and about Horford 49k
And why do Yao Ming and Andrew Bynum lead the west in Center voting? They’ve barely played all season.
nba voting has always been dumb
I’ve decided not to get upset over this over a decade ago.
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by AllThatJazzBasketball on Dec 16, 2010 4:33 PM MST reply actions
The biggest problem I have
is that everyone says allstar doesn’t mean anything.
Yet some of these people still refer to players as 2x/3x etc allstar ‘players name’ and so on.
Either it means something or it doesn’t so stop refering to how many allstar games a player has.
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by LoWBlok on Dec 16, 2010 9:14 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
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