What Just Happened With The NBA All Star Starting Lineups Is A Basketball Travesty
What a complete and utter joke. I am offended not only as a Celtics fan, but as a basketball fan. Even though this is a fake game that means nothing, at the same time this bullshit cannot be ignored.
We are going to start with the Eastern Conference.
On what planet is it possible that neither Isaiah Thomas OR Kyle Lowry are starting? If you want to go by their actual seasons, Kyrie shouldn’t have even made the fucking team! I could handle seeing a combination of a Lowry/Wall or something like that, but a Irving/DeRozan backcourt is a slap in the face to everyone who has watched them play this season. People want to say Isaiah’s defense kept him out, well then explain Irving and Curry? Kyle Lowry is a good defender so what’s the rationale with him? If defense is the deciding factor, then you HAVE to put John Wall in that starting spot. This whole thing is a mess.
On one hand you have Isaiah playing at a historic level, and the other you have another guy with better numbers than Kyrie, who is having a career year on the 2nd seed in the East. This makes no sense on any level no matter how you try and spin it. Awful, just awful.
BUT THAT’S NOT EVEN THE WORST SNUB!!
Fuck Steph Curry and all the fake GS fans that made this happen. Russell Westbrook has 21 triple doubles in 44 games. He’s in a two player race for MVP with James Harden. His season is LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than the season that Curry is having. That’s not to say Curry shouldn’t be an All Star, but how can a guy who is doing something that hasn’t been done since Oscar Robertson not warrant a starting spot?
This is the problem giving so much weight to the fan vote. Fans are fucking morons. Having it be a 50% fan vote is simply too high and this proves it. The All Star game should be about rewarding the players that are having the best season, not who is the most popular. I know a game that means nothing that players don’t even try in shouldn’t get me so worked up, but this is just flat out ridiculous and I will not stand for it.
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On the plus side, as a Celtics fan, this is going to be so much fun to watch. In a season where the rest of the world finally started to wake up about Isaiah, this is just another example of why we never stop fighting. The tear he is about to go on is going to be absolutely orgasmic. You can quote me on that.