huh? There are no longer eastern and western teams. I'm saying who does D'Antoni coach? and who does Dwayne Casey coach?
My assumption (and this is just my assumption) is that Mike coaches Steph's team and Casey coaches LeBron's team even though their isn't East/West there is leading vote getter's from each who act as the captain so I don't think they let them draft the coach. Now why they don't come out and say that, I am not sure.
While there aren't Eastern and Western teams, the captains and coaches are still based on East and West. The rest of the roster isn't.
This is so stupid. Dame is on team steph. What's the point of picking like this if we don't see it or they don't divulge how it went down?
If that's the order Dame would have been 2nd to last since Curry went first with the reserves. John Wall would have been last.
They should have 16 all-stars from each conference, voting for 10 starters from each conference. Then do 4 teams and draft like that. It makes the drafting concept more interesting and makes it make more sense. The extra 6 guys in the game would likely be: Paul George Chris Paul Lou Williams Andre Drummond Ben Simmons Goran Dragic That's not watering down the game, as those top 4 are certainly deserving. 8 players on each team means more PT in each game. Notice how I said each game? Play 2 "semi-final" games on Friday Night. Do Four 8min quarters. Then on Sunday do a 1st and 3rd place game with 12min quarters. Move Rising Stars game to Tbursday night. Each player on the winning team gets $500,000 per player. 2nd gets $250,000 per player. 3rd gets $100,000 per player. I feel like this would make the "All-Star Games" more competitive, due to the reward as well as the game structure.
16 guys from each conference would mean 8 more all stars, not 6. So you'd probably add Kemba Walker and Nikola Jokic (or Devin Booker, or Clint Capela, or Tyreke Evans...the west has a lot of semi-snubs) to your list.
