The Rockets have a player who's currently 6th in PER, 3rd in value added, and 11th in RPM and their own fans are actively rooting against him (James Harden) to make the all-star game.
The Allstar game will always be about fame and flash Fans that value true fundamental basketball skills will not get enough amusement out of this.
All star is about individual talent, not team success. LOL at Irving being 2nd place with like two games played. Kobe ahead of everyone, Thompson ahead of Harden. Harden deserves to start, but Thompson will get the nod because of all the Warrior bandwagon fans. Harden has been disappointing this year but still top 5-10 player in the league.
His team is better but he's had a pretty crappy year so far. It's no longer the splash brothers... it's more like Steph Curry and his sidekick Klay.
If you're not voting for a Rocket, why vote at all? If you don't like any of our players, why vote for others? They're the enemy and all deserve season ending injuries that have no long term effects (just in case the Rox pick them up later).
I disagree, All-Star selections have pretty much always rewarded players on winning teams. And you're wrong, Harden doesn't deserve to start over Curry and Westbrook, sorry.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Update: Latest <a href="https://twitter.com/NBA">@NBA</a> All-Star voting. Kobe still No. 1 ahead of Curry and LeBron. <a href="https://t.co/zTwJVYdtmt">pic.twitter.com/zTwJVYdtmt</a></p>— SI NBA (@si_nba) <a href="https://twitter.com/si_nba/status/685160578978050050">January 7, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
i have yet to vote for any of our players. Refuse to do so until they change their ways.. hopefully they get humbled back to earth
he's had a crappy year? you should probably check again. it may have started out slow but hes pretty much back to being klay.