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What happened to the China vote? I am happy (but very surprised) that Harden isn't higher in the voting.

 

Is this Mike Rice?

 

Maybe Mathews should go to Shanghai China and hang out with Kobe so he can get some popularity votes.

 

China is voting for Lin and Asik.

 

It has been exactly 20 years since the Blazers had 2 All-stars

 

Great time for us to have two then.

Also if by some way Stotts is the Coach and one of the Starters isn't able to play (Kobe/CP3 atm) then he can choose who starts. So if Lets say CP3 gets voted in and doesn't play and Lillard gets into the game by coaches Vote then he could be the starting PG for the AS game.

 

Curry is ahead of Paul in the voting and presumably will stay there now, and I assume Stotts would start him over Lillard anyway since Curry has seniority and better stats and Stotts wouldn't want to look like an unreasonable homer in his first AS coaching gig. He'd probably start Harden at SG if Kobe doesn't play also due to seniority.

That doesn't mean if Stotts is coach Lillard and LMA won't get way more minutes than they would have otherwise. Just don't expect Lillard to start.

 

If Stotts is the coach, which means OKC is not leading Portland at the break, Stotts doesn't choose who starts, the fans do.

 

We're talking about if fan choices can't play. If Kobe doesn't play Stern will choose his replacement, but the coach would choose who starts.

 

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My ballot:

West
Steph Curry he is out rebounding, out scoring and out passing Lillard.
Chris Paul at 20 11 and 5 he was too good for me to overlook but since the injury I have switched to Lillard.
Kevin Durant meet your 2013-2014 NBA MVP
Boogie Cousins he is posting a 27 PER with 23.5 PPG 11.5 RPG on only 32 minutes a night. Beast Mode.
Lamarcus Aldridge with Duncan falling off a bit and LA finally rebounding like a legit PF he has become the best PF in basketball.

East
Lebron James a complete no brainer
Paul George see Lebron
Roy Hibbert meet your 2013-2014 NBA DPOY
Dwayne Wade he always plays hard for some reason in this game and the rest of the East back court is pretty bad
Kyrie Irving it was a close call over John Wall but on the off chance we get to see a Lillard- Irving face off it was worth the vote

 

singular, not plural?

 

5th among forwards or everyone in the west?

 

I like most of your picks.

But I'd easily put Dwight, Love, Griffin, Dirk, Davis all ahead of Boogie. He has potential but he hasn't translated his skills or production into wins. People rip on Love for not getting his team to the playoffs but leading them right now to a .500 record is far more impressive than what Boogie has done.

I think Blake went from being way overrated to now he's being underated. He is the most athletic PF in the league and with the way he is shooting the ball is a matchup nightmere behind only LeBron or Durant.

 

You are assuming that Sacramento is trying to win games. I do not believe they are at all therefore since Boogie is posting the best numbers I choose him to represent the West. Especially since there is virtually no way the NBA allows Griffin or Dwight to miss the game and I do not want to see the kid who finally seems like he gets it to get snubbed.

 

And yet, you are assuming. Imagine that.

 

He is 5th in the west for frontcourt players. No more selecting centers and forwards, just frontcourt players.

Here's my 12 for the West, with injured players out and replacements listed:
Frontcourt:
Howard
Durant
Griffen
Love
Aldridge
Iguodala
Cousins

Backcourt
Curry
Harden
Parker
Lillard
Dragic

Injured players that most likely will be named but replaced: Bryant, Paul, Westbrook

 

There is no way the coaches select Westbrook. He will have missed way too many games by the time of the vote to bump Lillard or Parker at his expense, which is what his selection would mean.

Paul is a more interesting case since he's consensus top PG in the league. He likely will get way more "honor" votes from the coaches (assuming Curry stays ahead of him in the fan vote) than Westbrook even though he can't play. It would not surprise me either way if he is or isn't named by the coaches.

 

Mine is more of an educated guess

 

Huh? The dude is averaging 10/5/4... Nowhere near an all star. Batum deserves it more than Iggy since he is putting up 13/7/6 and not even Batum should really be considered.