So we now all know the All-Star starters for the 2015 NBA All-Star Game in New York City. As voted by the fans of the NBA. And I’ll be honest. I am done with fan voting.
You are all incredibly frustrating. I’ll correct that. Most of you are incredibly frustrating. I’m not sure what you people even want any more.
You constantly talk on social media. Preaching about giving the best players the starting position. Yet all I’m seeing is Blake Griffin, Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony. Are you kidding me?
Marcin Gortat got more votes than Kevin Durant. Let that sink in.
You know what this has become? Two words. Popularity Contest. That’s all it is now. I didn’t realize that Kobe Bryant was Derek Jeter. Is Kobe on his farewell tour? No? Then why did he get more votes than James Harden?! In my opinion, Harden is second in MVP ladder. Yet he lost to Kobe on All-Star voting.
Here’s a little fact for you. What do Jusuf Nurkic and Langston Galloway have in common? They both have more win shares than Kobe Bryant this year. A center and a player who’s been in the NBA for a couple of months. And you all genuinely think that Kobe deserves to be an All-Star starter? Behave yourselves.
Next person up for grilling. Blake Griffin. How is he more worthy than DeMarcus Cousins? You do know that Griffin actually said DMC should be a starter right? Oh I guess that all went straight over your head. Cousins has a better PPG, RPG and BPG than Griffin. So what you voted him in because he got hops?
Carmelo Anthony. Now, When I and the rest of the Def Pen sports writing team made our predictions for the 2015 All-Star Game. I put Carmelo Anthony in but the differnce is that I put him on the bench. If this game wasn’t hosted in Madison Square Garden I wouldn’t even think of putting Melo in. Why is he a starter? What’s wrong with Paul Millsap? Oh sorry I forgot he plays for Atlanta, the best team in the East by a mile. Excuse me, I’m clearly out of line.
Don’t think that I am the only one pushing to ditch the fan vote. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is also done with the All-Star fan voting.
“In context of everything, that’s no votes,” Cuban said. “That’s such a small number considering all the different options you have to vote that it’s almost embarrassing. It’s just no one’s really looked at it that way. … I mean, think about it. Of all the people who go to games, all the people who watch games globally, to have [1.5] million means that system’s broken. Absolutely, positively broken.”
Now that’s a different outlook to look at all this. But highly applicable nevertheless.
NBA. I beg you. GET RID OF FAN VOTING. Some people actually vote players in who deserve it. Then we’re getting stories like Justin Bieber trying to support his Canadian players by trying to have his fans collectively vote in Kyle Lowry, but they didn’t even do that right. Over 50 thousand possible votes and it was all wrong because remember, you needed #NBABallot, Bieber. Lowry did end up beating Dwyane Wade to the starter spot, thanks in part to the Canadian Prime Minister. Do you think that’s right? Of course it’s not. We don’t deserve this luxury anymore because there are players that are getting snubbed because you all want your favourite player to start. But hey. There’s always the coaches vote.
But I guarantee you there will be snubs, you’ll all go up in arms about it and then realised you voted for Blake Griffin and Carmelo Anthony to be in the All-Star Game.
