NBA All-Star Starters Announced

[crc21209]

West- CP3, Kobe, Durant, Griffin, and Dwight Howard

East- Rondo, Wade, LeBron, Melo, and Garnett


Just announced on TNT's pre-show right now...

[rayjayjohnson]

Dwight, Garnett, wade and rondo all shouldn't be there

[FkLA]

The chuckster excluding both Duncan and Parker from his reserves list. :lol

[ElNono]

:lol except for Durant, all the West guys play in LA

[Juggity]

:lmao Dwight Howard

This dude wouldn't have been voted in if he belonged to any other NBA franchise.

[irishock]

Howard shouldn't be on there.

[ElNono]

:lol 17-21 Lakers with two AS starters
:lol popularity contest
:lol Lin not chinese enough
:lol Lebron-Wade proving it's the Big 2, not Big 3 (lol Bosh)

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao Lin

[ffadicted]

Why are we still letting fans vote? Everything that is wrong with the NBA in a two sentences:

Blake Griffin, Clippers – His scoring, rebounding and shooting are all down from a year ago. But when you can jump over a car to dunk and show up with CP3 on the highlight reels every night, people tend to notice and vote for you. Highlights (http://www.nba.com/video/channels/allstar/2013/01/17/west-all-star-starter-blake-griffin.nba/index.html).

*butthurt*

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[Clipper Nation]

Why are we still letting fans vote? Everything that is wrong with the NBA in a two sentences:

Blake Griffin, Clippers – His scoring, rebounding and shooting are all down from a year ago. But when you can jump over a car to dunk and show up with CP3 on the highlight reels every night, people tend to notice and vote for you. Highlights (http://www.nba.com/video/channels/allstar/2013/01/17/west-all-star-starter-blake-griffin.nba/index.html).

You're retarded... of course his scoring, rebounding, and shooting are down, because he's playing less minutes...

The highlight reels actually do him a disservice, since they don't show the improvements he's made on his game and perpetuate the myth that "he can only dunk"...

[ffadicted]

You're retarded... of course his scoring, rebounding, and shooting are down, because he's playing less minutes...

The highlight reels actually do him a disservice, since they don't show the improvements he's made on his game and perpetuate the myth that "he can only dunk"...

drinkin' dat kool-aid

[BRHornet45]

Sons no one should be surprised by this. The NBA is big business, sports ENTERTAINMENT. They have to put who ESPN and the media tells them to put in the spotlight. The NBA has never been about the most deserving or the most talented. It's all about who can sell the product. That is all.

[baseline bum]

:cry Fucking bullshit, I voted everyday for chink in the armor :cry

[timvp]

It's a sad state of affairs when Carmelo Anthony is by far the second best player in the East. I don't even know who the third best player is in that garbage heap of a conference.

[Clipper Nation]

drinkin' dat kool-aid
Well, no, I just watch him play, tbh....

The real case to eliminate fan voting is that old-ass KG, who can only play in 5-minute intervals, is starting in the East....

[jeebus]

wow both teams look shitty.

[SpursIndonesia]

lol Rondo, lol Howard. :lol

[Sportcamper]

The voting is always a year or two behind…I would take DeAndre Jordan over Dwight Howard for this season…

[ffadicted]

The real case to eliminate fan voting is that old-ass KG, who can only play in 5-minute intervals, is starting in the East....

Very fair criticism, there are many more, and I'm not saying blakeyboy doesn't deserve at least a reserve AS nod or something... but I can't be the only one smh at the fact someone with blake griffin's skillset is a lock for being a perenial all-star starter year-in-and-out because of the system... though that probably says just as much about the quality of stars in the NBA today as it does about the popularity contest the ASG is tbh

[Clipper Nation]

Very fair criticism, there are many more, and I'm not saying blakeyboy doesn't deserve at least a reserve AS nod or something...

:lol A reserve AS nod? Who deserves to start over him? Not David Lee, who averages less points, steals, assists, and blocks per 36 minutes than Blake while turning it over more often... not LaMarcus Aldridge, who averages less points and rebounds per 36 minutes... not ZBo, who averages less points, steals, assists, and blocks per 36 than Blake.... so who?

[irishock]

:lmao Dwight Howard

This dude wouldn't have been voted in if he belonged to any other NBA franchise.

@ArashMarkazi (https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi): Dwight Howard is pretending to walk around the Lakers locker room with his imaginary girlfriend, Judy.


Tells all you need to know about this guy.

[ffadicted]

:lol A reserve AS nod? Who deserves to start over him? Not David Lee, who averages less points, steals, assists, and blocks per 36 minutes than Blake while turning it over more often... not LaMarcus Aldridge, who averages less points and rebounds per 36 minutes... not ZBo, who averages less points, steals, assists, and blocks per 36 than Blake.... so who?

Uhhh, timmy? lol Way more skileed basketball wise instead of monkeyballer, averages similar numbers on offense while not pretty much getting all his baskets off cp3 or pure athleticism, grabs more boards, 1000% more valuable to his team and it's a joke to compare them as defensive players. I thought my butthurt over him not making was pretty obvious tbh otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to complain lol

[Clipper Nation]

Imho, Griffin and Duncan should be the starting frontcourt.... also, having CP3 and being extremely athletic helps, but Griffin's also improving his post game, jump shot, and defense, tbh... of course Griffin's fundamentals aren't going to be picture-perfect yet, it's like people forget he hasn't been in the league very long...

[Bynumite]

It's the all star game, people wanna see some monkeyball, not old ass jim hitting bank shots.

[ffadicted]

It's the all star game, people wanna see some monkeyball, not old ass jim hitting bank shots.

Exhibit A gents lol at least clip nation brings legit points

[Floyd Pacquiao]

lol @ bible kemp and sorry ass garnett starting

side note: damn the east sucks

[racm]

Leastern Conference being weak per par, tbh

LeBron and Melo both deserve it, but Kevin "I have a worse year than TD but I got Honey Nut Cheerios" Garnett starting? :lmao :lmao

[Bynumite]

Exhibit A gents lol at least clip nation brings legit points

It's a fucking exhibition game not game 7 of the Finals, stop being butthurt about it.

Real talk, spurfan constantly cries about resting the players, this should be good news to you guys.

[racm]

It's a fucking exhibition game not game 7 of the Finals, stop being butthurt about it.

Real talk, spurfan constantly cries about resting the players, this should be good news to you guys.

Tbh unless Pop begs the 29 other coaches of the league not to vote for Tim or Tony they'll be shoo-ins as reserves.

[DMC]

After "The Flight", the NBA has no love for the Spurs (that's new).

[racm]

After "The Flight", the NBA has no love for the Spurs (that's new).

Tbh the only break the Spurs got from Stern was 2007 against Phoenix... the Spurs still had that series regardless

[irishock]

Del Negro will probably play Tim 38 minutes, Kobe 44 minutes, Durant 48, Westbrook 48 and Howard 47.

[Killakobe81]

Starters should be Duncan Durant Kobe Paul and Blake is not a bad choice ...

[Killakobe81]

East is shaky ...I say Noah, Melo, LeBron, Wade (barely) and I like Jrue but Rondo not a bad choice

[KaiRMD1]

Dwight Howard is an all star starter? The f***? Guarantee Gary Payton disputes this

[DMC]

After "The Flight", the NBA has no love for the Spurs (that's new).

I doubt Duncan even makes it. Same for Parker

[Latarian Milton]

4 of west's 5 starters are based in LA :lmao

[afireinside20]

Popularity contest, always has been. If an undeserving jackass like Garnett can start, then yea I believe it

[Rummpd]

The voting is always a year or two behind…I would take DeAndre Jordan over Dwight Howard for this season…:lmao


DA Jordan? 9.3 PPG 7 boards 1.5 BPG and a PER of about 17? You got to be kidding!



Duncan is the best big in the West this year and it is not even close. 17.2 PPG 9.8 RBG and 2.8 blocks and top PER of any big in the West


http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/player/hollinger/_/id/215/tim-duncan

[look_at_g_shred]

Del Negro will probably play Tim 38 minutes, Kobe 44 minutes, Durant 48, Westbrook 48 and Howard 47.

Not so fast with the Del Negro talk..