What are the chances Damian Lillard starts in the All Star game?

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  1. Natebishop3

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    Yup. I suspect it will have as much to do with the team's success as it does with their own. If we are in the top three of the west again, I could see both guys making the team. If we're in the bottom half of the top 8, I could see them both missing.
     
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    Durant is only out 6-8 weeks.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Starting in an all-star game is maybe the most worthless honor I can think of because of how it's determined. All-NBA is where it's at.
     
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    Ironically, getting picked as a reserve is more of an honor than getting voted as a starter.

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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    That too.
     
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    If the blazers start 50-0, Lillard will start in the all-star game.
     
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    Zero, if tonight's first half is any indication.
     
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    If we're basing it off the first half game of the season? Zero. ;)
     
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    In the grand scheme of things, not that many people vote. Lillard has 558,000 Twitter followers. If they would each vote for him 3 times, he would be the leading vote-getter.
     
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    Doesn't matter how you play in one half of basketball. Doesn't matter if you don't play at all (see Kobe last year). What matters is that you are POPULAR and I started this thread to ask, has he become that popular?
     
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    But we're not.
     
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    No. He'll start if people vote.
     
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    Curry (after finishing 8th in 2013) was the leading vote-getter among guards in 2014. He had 1,047,281 votes. So if each of Lillard's Twitter followers votes twice for Lillard, he'll be a starter. It's that simple. Doesn't matter how he or anyone else plays. We just need to organize the vote.
     
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