Oden is GREG ODEN.

Joel is Joel Przybilla. Outside of his family and a few of us, he ain’t getting any votes.

The NBA expects Oden to be a HUGE star. Of course you put him on the ballot.

I love Joel as much or more than the next guy, but Joel shouldn’t ever be considered in allstar talks with a straight face. He’s a role player— which is what we need him to be.

Mortimer

and that was because no Greg vs. Dwight. The league knows that this kid makes money just walking onto the court, sadly you cannot say the same for the Vanilla Gorilla no matter how much we love him.

The All-Star Voting is centered on popularity and hype.

Oden has to be on there just for that. He’s been hyped into oblivion.

Each team can have a maximum of one nominee at the Center position. Prior to the season, one Greg Oden was projected to be the Blazer starter, hence he is on the ballot.

This is not worthy of a fanpost, much less 8 question marks.

means nothing. Period. Zilch. Nada.

If you want to talk about accomplishments, talk about the All-NBA teams. Not the All-Stars. Even Brandon Roy making All-Star last year means nothing to me.

maybe the chinese will spare a couple of their 1000 votes each for him

where do you vote? or do they select themselves

they should schedule a alley-oop contest and invite The Spanish Connection to bring the real fireworks!

Then we can have four all stars in the game.

It’s completely unfair.
Joel, while likely never an All-Star, deserves the chance much more than someone, no matter how high their potential, who has only played two quarters.
I love the IDEA of GO, and everything I’ve seen of him OFF THE COURT, but JOEL puts it together ON THE COURT every night.
This might boil down to anticipation of GO coming back strong, or perhaps the ballots were printed a month ago, or perhaps it’s just the fact the Joel has -1 star power compared to unfortunately injured players like GO and total flops like Starbury.

Such is life.