Will Yao be voted into the All Star game this year?

I choked on my rice and bok choi when I saw this.

 

Yao WILL be voted to the All-Star game. He wasn't that great his rookie season and still had the most votes. Plus there's history of injured players making it to the All-Star game


http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nba/stories/2001-01-27-allstars.htm

Injured Mourning, Hill make All-Star team

By The Associated Press


NEW YORK — Miami's Alonzo Mourning has been sidelined all season and Orlando's Grant Hill has played in only four games, yet their reputations helped them make the Eastern Conference team for the 50th NBA All-Star game. Mourning, out with a kidney ailment, received 917,866 votes at center, and Hill, on the disabled list with a broken left ankle, collected 904,885 votes at forward in the fan balloting announced Saturday. It was the sixth time both Mourning and Hill were selected to the team. Toronto's Vince Carter, the NBA's fourth-leading scorer with a 28.4 average going into Saturday's games, led the voting for the second straight year. Carter received 1,717,687 votes out of the more than 4.8 million ballots cast. "It's an honor that people appreciate the way I play," Carter said. "For me to lead in voting, still sometimes I have to pinch myself."

 

The NBA should not put him in the list. They know He is injured so its a foregone conclusion that He would not play in the game.

 

would Yao be in the Ballot?

 

ye, we would
LOL

 

haha, he takes 4 strides and he is down the court. It still amazes me, after all of these years.

 

the days of Mourning and G. Hill reminds me of collecting bball cards.

 

Amare will win the All-star position, if he slides back to C.

Greg Oden or Tyson Chandler, if Amare stays at PF.

Or...

Since David Andersen is Yao's replacement, China will vote for him instead of Yao.

 

I dont think he should even be on the Ballot, but I wouldn't have a problem with it if the fans voted him in. Yao has a lot of fans that love him and respect him, and after all, its still just as all star game.

 

True, Why put a player that as early as now is going to miss the entire season? Even the most encouraging rumor/ news that He could come back by March would not fall during All-Star weekend. If the NBA puts him in the ballot and He still wins, the league will just replace him so what for putting him in the ballot in the first place.

 

I don't know it, but that seems the most likely scenario. I think it was embarassing for the league in the past to have players who were injured all year get voted in. I think in those cases, they may have allowed there was a chance the players would come back from injuries earlier than they did. They know Yao will not. Yao being voted in would be especially embarassing because it would reveal a racial bias in voting. So, I think they'll avoid it by dropping his name.