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Saturday January 9, 2010 5:50 am
Tracy McGrady and Allen Iverson are 2010 All-star starters?
In the last update of NBA all-star balloting before the starters are announced on January 21, 2010, one can easily see two travesties within the voting leaders. I have checked my calendar a billion times since the new year to make sure it actually is 2010 and not 2000. Allen Iverson, after playing only 13 games this year, leads Vince Carter by more than 185,000 votes for the right to start in the Eastern Conference backcourt alongside Dwyane Wade. The Answer being the answer to so many fans’ question of who should start in the all-star game this year is an equation that has all sorts of holes in it, but with an insurmountable lead, us sane NBA fans will just have to find a way to accept it.
However, there is still enough time to right the other wrong.
Tracy McGrady, with averages of 3.2 ppg, 0.8 rpg and 1.0 rpg in six (that’s six) games played, ranks second in voting among guards in the Western Conference. Kobe Bryant deservedly has run away with the voting race. I have heard the “Blame China” argument. Yao Ming plays for the Houston Rockets, and he is not playing this year, so let us vote for another Rocket? Why not at least vote for someone who is actually playing, and having a decent season, like Aaron Brooks? Not that I think Brooks deserves to start in the all-star game, but he sure is a better choice than McGrady. Though the “China effect” might be why Brooks ranks ahead of Jason Kidd, Chauncey Billups, and Deron Williams in fan voting.
I know in this day and age of the internet and the blogosphere, the temptation to really mess with something like all-star voting can prove too hard to resist. It will certainly be an embarrassment to the league if both Iverson and McGrady are voted in as all-star starters this year, but it should be a bigger embarrassment for the true and knowledgeable NBA fan who lets this happen without trying to do something about it. Please pop over to nba.com, find the tab to vote for the all-star game and cast a meaningful vote today.
Steve Nash has played brilliantly this year and has the Suns in the thick of the playoff mix. He trails McGrady by 2375 votes. Chris Paul missed a month of action due to injury, and the Hornets are struggling, but he is still a more deserving choice for the all-star game than McGrady. He sits fourth in guard voting - 45,208 votes behind the guy sitting at home because his own team does not want him around any more.
I realize that being an all-star does not mean what it used to. The sham voting seen this year may eventually force the NBA to overhaul their all-star ballot, but I doubt they do what is needed. They keep track of things like the top vote-getter and the all-time high in votes, and doing something appropriate like limiting the players that appear on the ballot would affect their ability to compare present voting to that of years gone by.
Voting will continue through January 18th. I am sending out a request for about 240 people to vote daily over the next 10 days for Nash, to make up the distance between him and McGrady. Even though he is further behind, you might as well vote for CP3 as the other guard. Don’t worry, Kobe fans, he has a ticket punched to Dallas already.
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- allen iverson, chris paul, nba all-star voting, steve nash, tracy mcgrady
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vote t-mac for All star 2010!!!!!!
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hahaha! Not surprised at the self-props, t-mac. Now go back to attacking that magazine while lounging on the couch
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VOTE TRACY MCGRADY!!
ONLY FEW DAYS LEFT!!
we need your help, vote now!!
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PEOPLE TMAC SAID HE WONT GO ON THE ALL STAR GAME HE WILL ATTEND BUT WONT PLAY HIS GONNA GIVE IT TO DESERVING PG PLAYERSSSSS LIKE DERON WILLIAMS ND NASHHH AND CHRIS PAUL HE SAID IT LOOK
http://www.nba.com/rockets/video/2009/12/23/12222009lockerRoommov-1161932/index.htm
I WANT HIM TO PLAY BUT PEOPLE HATIN ON HIM IDK WHY CUZ YEAR AGO HE PLAYED 22 GAMES AND SCORED 15PPG MORE THAN HALF THIS WHACK ASS PLAYERS DID BUT ATLEAST HES NOT BEEN AN ASS AND SAYIN FORGET THIS OTHER PLAYERS ITS ALL ABOUT ME YU KNO SO STOP WIT THIS BLOGS .AI IS PLAYIN THOUGH BUT T-MAC AINT BUT HE WILL PALY FOR A GOOD TEAM AND WILL KILL DA HATERZZZZZZZ
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yea ### u, wuts wrong with wanting to see our favorite player play? u needa stfu
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It’s your people’s fault that he’s getting elected.
I think it’s great. He’s overweight, looks depressed and has a bad knee. 3ppg, 1apg, 0.8rpg!!!!! The league needs this, it’ll be the funniest thing to happen in YEARS if he gets elected.
All they need to do is publish a current picture of him, with the lazy eye showing and his stats below that.
IT WILL HAPPEN
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^^u needa stfu, imagine not doing #### then comign in and playing, don’t forget he had 10 pts in 7 min, u gonna tell me thaats bad? how is someone supposed to score a high amount of pts every game playin 7 min, that’s fuckin ridiclous, he’s not overweight either where the #### u get that? stfu and learn wuh ur talkign about
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man, all u haterz shud stop hatin aite cuz if u out der on da court playin forward against lebron and kevin durant and ur playin 10 min a game and ur coach doesnt like u AND stupid crackheads think that u make the team worse, then obviously you would quit the team.
the guy who even made this post is a fukin douche becuz first of all hes asian, and no other asian boy xcept for yao cud every play ball well. and the retard forgot that tmac isnt an average basketball player, he is respected…man the man’s got 2 scoring titles, and was the most dominant teenage basketballl player the worlds seen.
anyways dis asian kid who made this post shud make another 1 about how the chinese basketball team is gonna make a strong case for winning the olympics becuzz u kno, thats how em wanabe asians roll
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Reading these comments hurt my brain. Please kill yourselves.
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haha, I “popped over to nba.com” and voted for 3-mac cause he’s the best player in the NBA
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@CP3, yo kid, dont’ say ####, then not have reasoning, @t-mac2, thanks yo, he’s a really good player, just can’t show it atm
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Wow for all those tmac fans. Thats great that your tmac fans n all but this is the “all star” game. As in those players who have played exceedingly well THIS YEAR not last year not next year but THIS YEAR. Tracy Mcgrady has been hurt and has not played averages around 3 points a game. All those Chinese voters need to realize that just because YAO is hurt you need to vote for another rocket player. Don’t be so selfish. Vote for players that deserve to play in the all star game. Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Brandon Roy, Steve Nash, Tyreke Evans, Kobe Bryant, Aaron Brooks, Tony Parker all deserve to be all stars over tracy mcgrady. So all you fans voting for tracy mcgrady need to pull your head out of your ass and think rationally because your screwing up the quality of the game of basketball. I don’t want to see Tracy Mcgrady in the all star game. I like him as a player but I want to see a player who has played super well. I’m sorry but Tracy Mcgrady has been a bum and all you tmac fans are selfish because your vote needs to go to someone more deserving. And if anyone thinks that tracy mcgrady deserves to go to the all star game i’d love to argue with you.
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smh how the world has so much haters the nba is a global game with different nationalities so everyone in the world should vote ... funny how another man success and accomplishments bring pain to others smh i hope t,ac starts n thats how i feel
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This is BS. TMac was 2000 votes ahead of Nash with one week left of balloting and Nash finishes 200,000 votes ahead? Me thinks the NBA did some “creative accounting”. With this obvious fraud I can only hope Nash does the right thing and comes down with a case of flu during All Star week so McGrady can take his rightful place as a starter.
GO TMAC!
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Are all you guys retarded? What good would come of Tmac starting. Let’s see some of the most exciting players in the game now (other than Kobe and LBJ). Damn, it’s Nash, CP3 and Derron. Y not see the best play in the game. No one wants to see Tmac go up for a dunk and break his ankles. Hahaha. I used to be huge Tmac and AI fans, but this whole drama makes me sick. Let the ‘true all-stars’ play. The guys with the greatest numbers, best improvement and best seasons be these true all-stars.
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Nash baby!! Kid Canada is the truth. Tmac makes enough money to watch the nba from his house… he doesnt need no sympathy votes. The AI issue is also horrific
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So we go!
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First of all half you guys need to post like your IQ is higher than 35 so anyone takes you seriously. No one wants to read some post by a dim witted 10 year old playing off as anyone with the least bit of knowledge of basketball. Second of all Tracy has always been my favorite player, but the truth is he isn’t an All Star this year, period. Nothing left to say really, let some of the guys who have been carrying their team go, Nash, Paul, Johnson, A.I. over Johnson, really? Who let these people vote.
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the Allfuck fest just started and i am only wacthing for big kevin, no tracy what, no AI what. who cares about stats the Allstar game is for the fans
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