2011 All-Star Starters

East
C-Dwight Howard
PF-Amar'e Stoudemire
SF-LeBron James
SG-Dwyane Wade
PG-Derrick Rose

West
C-Yao Ming
PF-Kevin Durant
SF-Carmelo Anthony
SG-Kobe Bryant
PG-Chris Paul

Yao Ming.
:SMH:

Even Carmelo being an All-Star starter is questionable. How about Kevin Love or Blake Griffin? Or a PF..

Raza wrote:

Yao Ming.
:SMH:

Even Carmelo being an All-Star starter is questionable. How about Kevin Love or Blake Griffin? Or a PF..

The West will loose decisively.

West is gonna lose... wtf is this?? Durant has no buisness at pf... put him at sf, put Melo's ass on the bench, and start Gasol.. Idk even know what to say about the starting C.

Khalifa wrote:

West is gonna lose... wtf is this?? Durant has no buisness at pf... put him at sf, put Melo's ass on the bench, and start Gasol.. Idk even know what to say about the starting C.

Simple, start Dirk, move Carmelo to the bench, put Gasol or Duncan at C.

I doubt they will bench Carmelo though. Just 'cause he is Carmelo...

i don't like the team for the West.

should be

PG-D Will
SG- Kobe
SF- Durant
PF- Dirk/pau
C- idk.. chandler?!

Bulls N' Bears wrote:

i don't like the team for the West.

should be

PG-D Will
SG- Kobe
SF- Durant
PF- Dirk/pau
C- idk.. chandler?!

Center should be Duncan.

could be. If the commish picks him.

It's an All Star game... we the fans picked the starters. Yao is still really popular and it's nice to see that he is still getting honored since he has been a good player throughout his career...

Two guards, Two forwards, and a center for each team.. Power or Small forward, Point or Off guard, don't care. There's usually a rotation change a few minutes in anyway, and the teams hardly play defense.

Why do you have to pick positions? they should just have the most vote getters start... lol
why not have 4 guards and 1 forward? lol its an All-Star game...

Popovich better choose Griffin for the bench ! he just better !!!!!
if he dosent it will add more points to why i hate the San Antonio Spurs.

and who do we have for the East bench?

the celtic big 4 + bosh and horford? anyone agree... who else? :S east is weak this year with choices

Fuck this shit..

Rose really deserved the spot tho. Maybe Rondo over D.Wade but D.Wade is 2 popular.

And Amare finally took the spot after trailing 200k votes.

Rose deserves the starting spot,for sure

Rondo is fine coming from the bench as well.

Overall,it should be a great All-Star Game

How about the All-Star Reserves?Did Aldridge make the cut?

D:

Snow. wrote:

Why do you have to pick positions? they should just have the most vote getters start... lol
why not have 4 guards and 1 forward? lol its an All-Star game...

Popovich better choose Griffin for the bench ! he just better !!!!!
if he dosent it will add more points to why i hate the San Antonio Spurs.

and who do we have for the East bench?

the celtic big 4 + bosh and horford? anyone agree... who else? :S east is weak this year with choices

Boozer should be in as a reserve

I don't think Booze gets in cuz of the amount of games he has missed.

thewiz06 wrote:

It's an All Star game... we the fans picked the starters. Yao is still really popular and it's nice to see that he is still getting honored since he has been a good player throughout his career...

Two guards, Two forwards, and a center for each team.. Power or Small forward, Point or Off guard, don't care. There's usually a rotation change a few minutes in anyway, and the teams hardly play defense.

Yao is popular by the Chinese vote...

It's definitely not from American voters.

If they just took him off the ballot, this wouldn't be a problem.

I don't see how they didn't put guys who wee actually playing [Millsap for an example] on the ballot.. but leave a guy on who's out for the year.

makes no sense.

Good point,Nenad...

EM #51 wrote:

Snow. wrote:

Why do you have to pick positions? they should just have the most vote getters start... lol
why not have 4 guards and 1 forward? lol its an All-Star game...

Popovich better choose Griffin for the bench ! he just better !!!!!
if he dosent it will add more points to why i hate the San Antonio Spurs.

and who do we have for the East bench?

the celtic big 4 + bosh and horford? anyone agree... who else? :S east is weak this year with choices

Boozer should be in as a reserve

BY VOTES
Forwards:
Pierce
Garnett
Bosh
Boozer
Smith
Gallinari

Guards:
Rondo
Allen
Felton
Wall
Jennings

Centres:
O'Neal
Noah
Bogut
Horford
Hibbert
Bargnani

my bench goes:
Rondo
Allen
Pierce
Garnett
Bosh
Boozer
Felton
O'Neal lol...

wow the east really do suck when it comes to depth for all-stars

an yeah what about players like Monta Ellis and Rudy Gay

I think we're forgetting that it's fans choice of who goes to the All-Star game. Yao Ming has one of the largest populations worldwide so no doubt about it that he gets voted even if he is injured (he shouldn't have made it on the ballot though, I don't think people would be smart enough to write him in).

I think the East makes sense, and showcases the East's true talent. I think Rose has been playing amazing and with Rondo coming off the bench, thats pretty unstoppable.

West makes no sense to me overall, I know that Carmelo has such a high voting percentage since he has such a large fan base, but to me he should be coming off the bench. Chris Paul has been playing well this year, but I don't think hes outplayed D-Will, Westbrook, or Monta Ellis at his time at PG.

To me it should look a little something like this, as if it were a depth chart:

PG: Deron Williams/Russell Westbrook/Chris Paul
SG: Kobe Bryant/Monta Ellis/Manu Ginobili
SF: Kevin Durant/Carmelo Anthony
PF: Blake Griffin/Kevin Love/Dirk Nowtizki (He was injured for a while this season)
C: NeNe (You can't expect Carmelo to do everything/Pau Gasol/Tim Duncan/

It'd be an odd team chemistry-wise, but I think it'd be a pretty sweet line up and showcases the most talented in the West without the fan vote.

Melo may not even be on the team for the west by the time the all-star game comes around.

Bulls N' Bears wrote:

Melo may not even be on the team for the west by the time the all-star game comes around.

Very true, although I don't see him leaving this season.

Mo-Money wrote:

I think we're forgetting that it's fans choice of who goes to the All-Star game. Yao Ming has one of the largest populations worldwide so no doubt about it that he gets voted even if he is injured (he shouldn't have made it on the ballot though, I don't think people would be smart enough to write him in).

I think the East makes sense, and showcases the East's true talent. I think Rose has been playing amazing and with Rondo coming off the bench, thats pretty unstoppable.

West makes no sense to me overall, I know that Carmelo has such a high voting percentage since he has such a large fan base, but to me he should be coming off the bench. Chris Paul has been playing well this year, but I don't think hes outplayed D-Will, Westbrook, or Monta Ellis at his time at PG.

To me it should look a little something like this, as if it were a depth chart:

PG: Deron Williams/Russell Westbrook/Chris Paul
SG: Kobe Bryant/Monta Ellis/Manu Ginobili
SF: Kevin Durant/Carmelo Anthony
PF: Blake Griffin/Kevin Love/Dirk Nowtizki (He was injured for a while this season)
C: NeNe (You can't expect Carmelo to do everything/Pau Gasol/Tim Duncan/

It'd be an odd team chemistry-wise, but I think it'd be a pretty sweet line up and showcases the most talented in the West without the fan vote.

Why would Nene start over Gasol/Duncan? :/

Mo-Money wrote:

Bulls N' Bears wrote:

Melo may not even be on the team for the west by the time the all-star game comes around.

Very true, although I don't see him leaving this season.

you don't? I think the Nuggets will almost be forced to trade Melo because they don't wanna risk losing him for nothing.

but the Nuggets are asking for too much in return... so it'll be hard to trade for him.

there's only 3 weeks left [I think] until the trade deadline... so they gotta do it fast haha