Yao Ming, All Star starting Center..

You really think Yao will get a billion votes? Heck NO!! Yao isn't even that popular in China, but believe me between with computer saavy teen america (myself) Yao will get alot of votes.
Hey guys, remember two years ago when we wanted Steve in the All-Star game and we all set our clocks back day in order to vote more than once in a day. Uh. Heh. Heh. Those were the good OLD days. GO YAO!!!!!!

 

I doubt he'll start. He'll preobably get a lot of votes from China, but not 1.5 billion. Not everyone in China is a basketball fan, and not all Chinese basketball fans have access to the internet. Plus, who's to say all of them are Yao Ming fans?

I think Shaq will get a lot of votes, unless his toe is a lot worse that what was expected.

All this said, I do think there is a good chance Yao makes it, as well as other Rocket players.

 

Sorry but we have gone through this within the last month or so!

 

I think Yao has a good chance at a billion votes. No wait! Let's just aim high and make a bold prediction of "ONE TRILLION" votes

-That was my feeble attempt to re-enact Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" movie

 

No worries mate! Any new insights to this topic are welcome.

 

Dog, If Yao got a trillion votes, that would be..... There isn't that many devoted Yao fans. There is only a few billion people in the world. That means everyone in the world would have to vote a couple of times.

 

Whatever it takes for Yao to get that "Trillion" votes is fine with me!

 

Can't argue with that.

 

The only hurdle is if the Yao Ming fans in China know that they can vote Yao Ming in, since many of them didn't vote for all stars before. If they do there's no doubt Yao will be voted in.

Internet access can be rented in China at affordable rate and such rental is very popular, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Once the season starts there'll be a huge number of Chinese basketball fans watch Yao play and become his fans, let alone over 10 million Shanghaiese backing him up. I won't be surprised if Yao gets 5 million votes if he's eligible.

 

remind us when it is time to vote for the nba all-star players alright??? just make a thread here at cc.net....
Is there a limit on voting per household?or how many times can each person vote???

 

I'm pretty sure on one vote per household, and only one vote per 24 hours.

 

I am sure they will figure out something to prevent the "set the clock back day" thing from happening again.

 

azl-You can vote once a day on nba.com. But, there are ways to circumvent that (as mentioned, set your computer's clock back a day).

I'm interested to see how the fan voting for Yao goes. He very well could get the start-IIRC, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, an OF from Japan, was 4th in the NL in fan voting, even though he's at best an average player. Ichiro, of course, was first.

I think if Yao plays decently, enough to merit some credit for his play, he could beat out Shaq in the popularity voting.

 

Considering how Ming has acted so far toward other players in the NBA, I think that if he out votes Shaq in any way, he will decline to start over Shaq; that he has too much respect for him.

I mean, he even comended a Canadian scrub on how well he played vs him.

 

You might be able to vote as many times as you want by deleting "the cookie" or simply by clearing all cookies--unless you have to go through some kind of registration before voting (I've never voted a player for an all-star game). It worked for me when voting for the best center in the WC on nba.com (and I only voted three times by the way).

 

I'm thinking Stern would find some way to get Shaq back into the starting lineup. No way he lets his beloved Laker fall short of any glory.

 

Yeah. Sure Ya Did.