All Star reserves announced

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Superman

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6088181

Eastern conference:
Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Al Horford, Joe Johnson, Chris Bosh

Western conference:
Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Deron Williams, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin

How is Kevin Love not an All Star??? 21.4 ppg, 15.5 rpg, and no one has done 20/15 since Moses Malone in 1983. Not Tim Duncan, not Kevin Garnett, not any of the other great big men of the last 30 years. What a snub.
 
Jespher

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Love has to get in instead of an injured Yao. David Stern is all about showcasing the young talent and is too concerned about growing future stars for the league to make such an egregious snub twice.
 
kingsboi

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Congrats to Blake. I'm sure we will see him be a 10-15 time all-star and it's going to be annoying after the first two year seeing him in there with the same ol same ol players. I'm starting to dislike the All-star game more and more every year. Mostly because there aren't many different players on there. I will care more when a King is in it, til then I really could care less.
 
hoopsfan

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I don't remember thet last time I watched any AllStar stuff. mIt's all a snoozefest to me. At least it gives me a free weekend to do something besides concentrate on bball.
 
Bricklayer

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Superman said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6088181

Eastern conference:
Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Al Horford, Joe Johnson, Chris Bosh

Western conference:
Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Deron Williams, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin

How is Kevin Love not an All Star??? 21.4 ppg, 15.5 rpg, and no one has done 20/15 since Moses Malone in 1983. Not Tim Duncan, not Kevin Garnett, not any of the other great big men of the last 30 years. What a snub.
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lot of aging charity cases on that list.
 
Tetsujin

Tetsujin

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kingsboi said:
Congrats to Blake. I'm sure we will see him be a 10-15 time all-star and it's going to be annoying after the first two year seeing him in there with the same ol same ol players. I'm starting to dislike the All-star game more and more every year. Mostly because there aren't many different players on there. I will care more when a King is in it, til then I really could care less.
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We said that about Shawn Kemp too. :/
 
kingsboi

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PS; why are there four Boston starters on the all-star team? Really now...come on, Rondo should be the only one. Pierce maybe because he has career highs in a couple stats but other than that *shakes my head*. Pau Gasol too hasn't been all that this year -_-.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus

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Bricklayer said:
lot of aging charity cases on that list.
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Eh, it's not as if the eastern conference was rife with legitimate All-Star candidates. I'd maybe take Ray Allen off, but the other Celtics stay, in my opinion. If anything, I take Johnson and Bosh off in favor of Felton and Smith.
 
Padrino

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Superman said:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6088181

Eastern conference:
Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Ray Allen, Al Horford, Joe Johnson, Chris Bosh

Western conference:
Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Deron Williams, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin

How is Kevin Love not an All Star??? 21.4 ppg, 15.5 rpg, and no one has done 20/15 since Moses Malone in 1983. Not Tim Duncan, not Kevin Garnett, not any of the other great big men of the last 30 years. What a snub.
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yeah, kevin love not making the all-star team is beyond criminal. tim duncan has had an amazing career, but at 13.5 ppg and 9.3 rpg this season, his numbers pale in comparison to love's 21.4 and 15.5. this is love's breakout year, and he deserves to be rewarded. like brick said, there are a few too many aging charity cases amongst the reserves. it's silly. love may not be the most athletic or exciting player on the court, but neither is duncan at this stage of his career. hopefully somebody declines in favor of rest so love can slide in.
 
Dr. Spaceman

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Padrino said:
yeah, kevin love not making the all-star team is beyond criminal. tim duncan has had an amazing career, but at 13.5 ppg and 9.3 rpg this season, his numbers pale in comparison to love's 21.4 and 15.5. this is love's breakout year, and he deserves to be rewarded. like brick said, there are a few too many aging charity cases amongst the reserves. it's silly. love may not be the most athletic or exciting player on the court, but neither is duncan at this stage of his career. hopefully somebody declines in favor of rest so love can slide in.
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Pau Gasol should be ashamed that he's making this game over Kevin Love and LaMarcus Aldridge.

The entire Celtics line-up being in there is pretty iffy as well, though more legitimate than the year all of the Pistons made it during the Sheed-Chauncey days. Outside of Ray Allen, it's tough to argue against their inclusion. That said, it sucks that guys like Felton and Andrew Bogut were on the outside looking in on this one.
 
Bricklayer

Bricklayer

Don't Make Me Use The Bat
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Padrino said:
yeah, kevin love not making the all-star team is beyond criminal. tim duncan has had an amazing career, but at 13.5 ppg and 9.3 rpg this season, his numbers pale in comparison to love's 21.4 and 15.5. this is love's breakout year, and he deserves to be rewarded. like brick said, there are a few too many aging charity cases amongst the reserves. it's silly. love may not be the most athletic or exciting player on the court, but neither is duncan at this stage of his career. hopefully somebody declines in favor of rest so love can slide in.
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Its not just Love, its Zach Randolph and LaMarcus Aldridge too. The whole "winning team must get All Stars" thing taken way too far.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus

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kingsboi said:
How so?
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How so? Perhaps you've heard of Larry Johnson, who was the near-unanimous selection for 1992 Rookie of the Year, he of the 19/11 rookie season... a two-time All-Star, and heralded as a can't-miss player, and went, in four short years, from low-post terror to three-point specialist to out of the league, a hurt back alleged to be the reason for his decline. Or how about another can't-miss guy, who was drafted a year later, a college superstar by the name of Christian Laettner? One-time All-Star, averaged 17 and 8 through his first five years in the league, and came into the league heralded as the Great White Hope? One torn achilles tendon later and, poof! He gone. A year later, there was this other guy... super athletic, could do everything on the basketball court, was praised by some as being the "next Magic Johnson," and one half of a dynamic duo that everyone was sure was going to form the nucleus of a championship dynasty in central Florida. There were few players that were thought to be more can't-miss than Anfernee Hardaway, but miss he did.

The point being that Shawn Kemp didn't start his career as Shawn Kemp. In fact, for most of his career, Shawn Kemp was SHAWN KEMP~! He became Shawn Kemp.


EDIT - I don't understand you people who claim not to watch the All-Star Game at all. "Black Thanksgiving" (credit Michael Wilbon) is, like, a national holiday with me. It's the one time of the year that I get together with all my friends and enjoy everything that happens that weekend. One of these years, we're going to have to try and set it up so that we can afford to go to All-Star ourselves. But, I mean, it's great! **** the college bowls, superbowl, March Madness, all that other ****... "Black Thanksgiving" is where it's at!
 
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Superman

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Bricklayer said:
Its not just Love, its Zach Randolph and LaMarcus Aldridge too. The whole "winning team must get All Stars" thing taken way too far.
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Yeah, you take Duncan, Yao and Gasol off, and put those three on, and that's a legitimate All Star selection process. This tripe they're trotting out there is an insult.
 
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Superman

All-Star
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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
How so? Perhaps you've heard of Larry Johnson, who was the near-unanimous selection for 1992 Rookie of the Year, he of the 19/11 rookie season... a two-time All-Star, and heralded as a can't-miss player, and went, in four short years, from low-post terror to three-point specialist to out of the league, a hurt back alleged to be the reason for his decline. Or how about another can't-miss guy, who was drafted a year later, a college superstar by the name of Christian Laettner? One-time All-Star, averaged 17 and 8 through his first five years in the league, and came into the league heralded as the Great White Hope? One torn achilles tendon later and, poof! He gone. A year later, there was this other guy... super athletic, could do everything on the basketball court, was praised by some as being the "next Magic Johnson," and one half of a dynamic duo that everyone was sure was going to form the nucleus of a championship dynasty in central Florida. There were few players that were thought to be more can't-miss than Anfernee Hardaway, but miss he did.

The point being that Shawn Kemp didn't start his career as Shawn Kemp. In fact, for most of his career, Shawn Kemp was SHAWN KEMP~! He became Shawn Kemp.
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That's without mentioning Grant Hill.

I feel robbed. There's so many players over the last twenty years that were supposed to become superstars, but never quite made it for one reason or another. Injuries, drugs, laziness, poor coaching, etc. This all sucks.
 
Tetsujin

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Superman said:
That's without mentioning Grant Hill.

I feel robbed. There's so many players over the last twenty years that were supposed to become superstars, but never quite made it for one reason or another. Injuries, drugs, laziness, poor coaching, etc. This all sucks.
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Derrick Coleman is another guy that comes to mind.
 
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Superman

All-Star
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Tetsujin said:
Derrick Coleman is another guy that comes to mind.
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Steve Francis is one I've complained about in the past.

And depending on how you look at it, Webber might be on that list. If not for the ankle and knee injuries, his career might have looked a lot differently from 2001-2006. You look at how Garnett's career has been for the last four years, and wonder "what if?" At least I do.

But I digress. #FreeKevinLove
 
Geoff

Geoff

Bench
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Tim Duncan shouldn't have been voted on this year...Love should have been voted on, and Steve Nash put in as Yao's replacement.
 
kingsboi

kingsboi

Hall of Famer
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kingsnation said:
Same for me too. The NBA has the WORST all star process in the 4 major sports. It's all about name and market. Of course, that shouldn't be a surprise since the rest of the NBA season is like that too.
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Wrong. NFL is the absolute WORST when it comes to all-star/pro bowl. It's not even close.
 
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