First things first I will give a little introduction to myself and then get into my thought on All Star Voting. First My name is Tim I am a Senior at the University of Northern Iowa. I will be posting blogs about basketball and different things about it possibly things like how players may use social media, to best dunkers, and the player efficiency rating. So stay tuned it should only get better.
All Star weekend is a weekend filled with a skills competition, a dunk contest, a three point shooting contest, a rookie versus sophomores game, and the main even the All Star game. How do these players get picked though. Part of what makes me mad about the All Star Voting is its a pure popularity contest and it has been for awhile. Players are able to be voted onto the team while being injured for most of the year. With the ease of internet access, voting has sky rocketed. With a quick search of past voting numbers at http://www.insidehoops.com/all-star-voting-results.shtml showed me that Even in 2005 the leading vote getting had 729,178 votes not a bad turn out for one of the first year fans got to vote. By the way that player was Yao Ming. This years the player who had the most votes was Dwight Howard and he had 1,600,390 votes. These numbers are great now and show great support for basketball. But, how many of these people know what they are talking about.
I feel that the NBA players or experts should vote in half and fans get to vote in half. Some Players in the NBA who should be voted in get left out because of the small market they play in. Well That is pretty much what I think about All Star Weekend. I hope that was not too pain staking.
Tim makes a valid point, I dont think that fans should get all the say as to who enters the all star game. Of course fans are going to vote for their favorite players which are usually the stars, so they are going to be voted in anyways. However every year it seems there are some people that deserve to be in the game, or to be a starter in the game that are left out, because fans just want to see players from their own team or the most exciting players which are not necessarily the best players.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that the all-star weekend festivities are becoming a bit of a gimmick. I mean, let's be honest, the players who play in the game play literally no defense and half the players don't even deserve the all-star nod. I thought sports were about winning and pride? It seems like all sports just use the all-star period as a time to slack off on defense and give the fans an offensive showcase. Watching the highlights of the game, I thought one of the best plays was Dwyane Wade not allowing Kobe to score at will and giving a hard foul. Sadly, the media blew this way out of proportion and told us that D-Wade was in the wrong for his foul, but in reality, that's just smart basketball. Intensity is always welcomed in my book, especially at the all-star game.
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