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https://www.nba.com/article/2016/12/19/players-media-all-star-starters-vote

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA is adding players and media to the voting process in a change to the way starters for the All-Star Game are selected.

Fans will account for 50 percent of the vote, while all current players and a panel of basketball media will each account for 25 percent.

The NBA has used fan voting to select the starters for its midseason game since the 1974-75 season.

Voting begins Sunday during the NBA's five-game Christmas lineup. Players can each complete one ballot, featuring three frontcourt players and two guards in each conference, and may vote for themselves or teammates.

Fans can submit one ballot each day through NBA.com, the NBA App, Twitter, Facebook and Google Search, as well as via Sina Weibo and Tencent Microblogs in China.

Voting will conclude Jan. 16. The All-Star Game is Feb. 19 in New Orleans.
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So fans will only make up half the vote, 25% goes to media and 25% to players.

Does this improve the chances that a Jazz player will make the starting squad?
 
It's a step in the right direction, but for now, it doesn't really affect the Jazz since we don't have anyone that would even be in the discussion to be a starter on the all-star team.
 
akirac73 said:
It's a step in the right direction, but for now, it doesn't really affect the Jazz since we don't have anyone that would even be in the discussion to be a starter on the all-star team.
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Gobert
 
akirac73 said:
It's a step in the right direction, but for now, it doesn't really affect the Jazz since we don't have anyone that would even be in the discussion to be a starter on the all-star team.
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The **** you say? See Fish's post.
 
It obviously helps Jazz. Gobert or Hayward have no chance to be voted by fans so them getting 50% extra support from media and players is sure help.
 
I think this helps the Jazz a lot. This could potentially stop an undeserving player from making the team at all which makes it more likely that a deserving player (Jazz player) makes it instead. There have been a lot of starters that would not be on the team at all if it weren't for the fan vote. This change increases that chances that those typer of players don't make it anymore.
 
This is great news, and I don't think you can assume it wouldn't help the Jazz. The players and media could vote strongly enough for say, Gobert, that we'd only need a few votes from the fans to put him over.

Good step in the right direction, and hopefully it leads to getting rid of fan voting altogether. Voting in someone like Kobe last year cheated some player who worked his *** off to earn his rightful place among the best in the league.

Either way, I'm just going to go ahead and predict Gobert gets voted in by the coaches this year, even if the new change doesn't get him as the starter.
 
candrew said:
Good to know - still haven't watched 1 minute of an All-Star game in 20+ years.
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I can't quite figure out if the All-Star game has been this crap all along and I just didn't notice as a kid, or if it's actually good downhill in the past 20-25 years.
 
I'm okay if Gobert and Hayward don't get picked for the All Star game. This team needs a chip on its shoulder come playoff time. Underestimated and undervalued would go a long way towards the two best players on the team looking to prove everyone wrong.
 
Ellis269 said:
I'm okay if Gobert and Hayward don't get picked for the All Star game. This team needs a chip on its shoulder come playoff time. Underestimated and undervalued would go a long way towards the two best players on the team looking to prove everyone wrong.
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I would be OK if Hayward doesn't make it, but Rudy not making it would be a travesty. I'd hate to see him dominate all the best centers and then get cheated like that.
 
MVP said:
It obviously helps Jazz. Gobert or Hayward have no chance to be voted by fans so them getting 50% extra support from media and players is sure help.
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LjJazzman said:
I think this helps the Jazz a lot. This could potentially stop an undeserving player from making the team at all which makes it more likely that a deserving player (Jazz player) makes it instead. There have been a lot of starters that would not be on the team at all if it weren't for the fan vote. This change increases that chances that those typer of players don't make it anymore.
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What these guys said. Definitely helps the Jazz in my opinion.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
I would be OK if Hayward doesn't make it, but Rudy not making it would be a travesty. I'd hate to see him dominate all the best centers and then get cheated like that.
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but him not making it might make him mad. and we get ubergobert for the 2nd half of the season holding opposing centers to 0% fg shooting and outrebounding whole teams by himself.


remember how malone got mad when he got dissed for an all star spot, next game he scored a gazillion.

this is exactly what we need to get the number 2 spot
 
DutchJazzer said:
but him not making it might make him mad. and we get ubergobert for the 2nd half of the season holding opposing centers to 0% fg shooting and outrebounding whole teams by himself.


remember how malone got mad when he got dissed for an all star spot, next game he scored a gazillion.

this is exactly what we need to get the number 2 spot
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Not worried in the least about Gobert playing with passion. He wants to be known as the best there is, and making the all-star game isn't going to make him conceded. Dude has something to prove, and I think Rudy believes he can win an NBA championship.

If he was a borderline all-star and he didn't make it, I'd be fine with it. When he has busted his *** to be the best of the best, I want him to get what he deserves.
 
Media being involved is a bad idea. Too many players have contract incentives. They gonna give a report to a local guy that didn't vote for them? Even in sports, we should try to keep an unbiased media. This does not help that.
 
Better than 100% of the vote going to the fans so this at least improves our chances in the future. Don't think it'll help this year, I think the starters look something like this:

Guard: Curry/Harden/Westbrook
Guard: Curry/Harden/Westbrook

2 of the 3 will certainly start, just have no idea which it will be

Forward: Durant
Forward: Leonard
Forward: ??????

I think that last spot could be up for grabs especially if Blake doesn't participate based on his recent injury. I still think it'll take a super human effort from either Hayward or Gobert to get it.
 
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