OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: JANUARY 2024

#JBC


Just Blame Chauncy

 

Can we blame Stotts too?

 

Reath gettin respect:

 

I don't think that's a sign of respect. I think it's a sign that most NBA players don't give a shit about the all-star game

 

Power to the players!

 

So this guy doesn’t see my posts obviously right. You know the one where Giannis’ brother got 3 votes to start. Sigh…..

 

What this lady said!

 

And you get irritated by people saying you shit on everything positive about the Blazers? That's actually rather impressive, managing to find the negative in Reath of all people getting all-star votes from fellow players.

 

Gotta respect someone who admits they are being emotional.

 

"I don't date supermodels because I value my single status"

 

bullshit

keep in mind, the players are voting for starters, not reserves

just google player voting results. The first link I found from 2018:

"And for the second consecutive year, it looks like many of the players didn't take their voting power — or their ability to vote for their teammates and for themselves — too seriously.

Headlining the list of players who received votes? Ron Baker, who averages three points per game for the New York Knicks, received two votes. Jack Cooley, who's played two NBA minutes and scored two NBA points this season, got one. Alexis Ajinca, who hasn't played this season and likely won't take the court until 2018-19 after undergoing knee surgery, got two."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ar-starter-votes-cast-nba-players/1044918001/

and a headline:



"I am very disappointed in the players, though," Kerr said before the Warriors lost 105-102 at Miami on Monday night. Kerr will coach the Western Conference in the All-Star Game. "I mean, they've asked for a vote, and a lot of them just made a mockery of it."

Of the 324 players who voted, 128 did not vote for LeBron James and 154 did not vote for Durant, two seemingly obvious frontcourt picks. A large group of voters apparently voted for themselves, based on the number of role players who received one vote.

When asked to elaborate on the specifics of the mockery, Kerr said, "I saw the list. I saw all the guys who got votes, and I don't know. Are you allowed to vote for yourself? So I don't know, are guys voting for themselves? I mean, there were 50 guys on there who had no business getting votes. So although a lot of people wrote in their buddies for the presidential vote as well, so maybe that's just their own way of making a statement. But I just -- I think if you're going to give the players [the vote], I think they should take it seriously. That's my own thought."

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...making-mockery-all-star-ballots-disappointing




yeah right...sign of respect...lol



https://nypost.com/2018/01/19/the-all-star-voting-by-nba-players-is-a-hilarious-mess/

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"The NBA changed the rules six years ago for 768,112 reasons. That was the number of fan votes that Zaza Pachulia received in 2016, nearly enough to make him an All-Star starter that season. His candidacy was fueled by social-media influencers and many votes from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Hence, the league went to the weighted formula. And players have turned it into a mockery.

For the sixth consecutive year, players had the right to have a significant say in the process of deciding who will start the All-Star Game. The NBA uses a formula to do that now, with fan voting counting for 50% of the total, a media panel counting for 25% and the players themselves getting 25%. And, also for the sixth consecutive year, most players didn’t take the process seriously. There’s no other way to explain how 297 players had at least one of their peers — or themselves — saying that they should start next month’s All-Star Game in Cleveland

Imagine this: More than half of the players in the NBA didn’t think that Joel Embiid — who likely would win the MVP award going away if the vote was held today — shouldn’t be an All-Star starter.

Or why someone thought Zylan Cheatham and Jay Huff should start the All-Star Game. By all accounts, they are excellent teammates. But they have combined for five NBA appearances and zero NBA points this season. Each got one vote anyway.

Moses Wright played in one game, logging 88 scoreless seconds, for the Clippers. He got two starter votes. So did McKinley Wright IV, his five points in three games for Minnesota earning him the two votes. Joel Ayayi scored two points in seven games with Washington; he got a vote. George King got a vote, which is one vote for every point he’s scored for Dallas this season.

In 2017, there were 283 players who got at least one All-Star starters vote from a peer or themselves. In 2018, the number was 249. In 2019, it was 289. In 2020, it went up to 292. In 2021, up again to 310. But most of the player votes didn’t seem to be sentimental or look like praise for those who were brought in on those 10-day deals. They apparently were either meant to be funny, or to make fun of the process, or both. And, once again, the player voting silliness doesn’t appear to have cost anyone a well-deserved starting nod.

But there will be a day when that happens, and that’ll be an embarrassing day for the NBA."

https://apnews.com/article/nba-sports-ben-simmons-kawhi-leonard-6181aaf17fc81cd9c0240dd26e3d3535

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I've paid attention to how the players have been voting. I know it says right on the ballots players send in they are voting for starters. Which means I know that when votes are cast for Giannis's brother or Moses Wright or Aldama or Reath it's the players being clowns. It's nuts to claim that Reath getting votes over Jokic as the starter at C is a sign of player respect for Reath.

but sure...try and make me pointing at this completely obvious reality as me shitting on the blazers...I know you don't like things I post, but you're just being a drama queen with this shit

 

Kudos for going to great lengths there, but it's still all about your unabated Blazer negativity toward anything not-Dame. The more overly sensitive your replies, the more we all know we're right. Keep doing you if it makes you feel better, I mean, worse.

 

LOL...yeah right...you said something completely dumbass replying to my post...now you're doubling down on your own dumbass-ery and trying to blame it on me. Don't try so hard because it ain't working

 

Devin Booker has 37 pts in 18 minutes as the Suns lead the Pacers 80-70 at halftime.

 

DEFENCE!!

 

Dallas and the Refs 131 Atlanta 125

 

Maybe more players, like Devin Booger, should be "out of shape" like Luka who nabbed a 70 spot tonight. He shut that fan up, and how.

 

The way the Pacers have played without Haliburton should (a) boost Rick Carlisle's COTY chances, and (b) dampen Haliburton's all-star credentials.

 

And the Suns lost!

(Not because of Eubanks, though - he was +12 and 4 for 4.)

Siakam looking like he was well-worth acquiring...