I didn’t vote a single time because the All Star game represents the worst of the game. Remember the chaos in Las Vegas two years ago? I’m still bitter about that.

Huge parties, bottle after bottle of Krystal, scantily clad women… then they fake like they are playing for a few hours.

I’m not rich and famous and don’t care about what they do for a little party one weekend a year.

fan voting is stupid.

Portland’s players are rarely voted in the starting lineup. Let’s really look at that list:

Kobe, CP, Parker, Nash, and Manu: Taken their teams deep into playoffs on national TV.

Kidd: Carryover due to name recognition.

Tracy, Rafer: Play with Yao, get carryover votes from a very large country.

Jamal Crawford: Well clearly he’s one of the best— WHAT IS HE DOING ON THIS LIST??

But seriously. other than Jamal, this list really isn’t surprising. If Brandon takes the team into the second round this year, with a big game on a weekend afternoon, he’ll be at #5 by next season.

Honestly though? I don’t think he cares either way. So I’m really not worried about it, if he’s not.

Yi Jianlin : The All Star game :: High School Musical 3 : The Oscars

       voting !

       I haven’t voted in any of these “All-Star” contests
for years. It’s the same everywhere (baseball, etc),
multiple voting by mutants locked up in basements
or now 1.3 billion chinese geeking over their two
players. I wouldn’t be suprised if Yi was top ten in the east.
     Blazer players never do well, so voting by the coaches
is all that matters !

                     COINCAST SUCKS !!!!!
                                                                GO BLAZERS !!!!!

RESPECT superstar talent peoples!

and…. GO YI!

Love it… I always have had a soft spot for oxymorons.

Some theories on the Luke Ridnour For All Star Fiasco of 2009…

1) Yi played for the Bucks and the Bucks are/were watched more regularly in China, padding the Bucks’ popularity, giving Luke a broader fan base

2) The elite guards out West are of a higher caliber than those out East, meaning a greater distribution in votes among them, leaving fewer for the guards on the outside looking in (top 5 guards in West have roughly 5.35 million votes : top 6 back East have roughly that… remove 400,000 (roughly the number of votes #6 had in the East) equally from top 5 in West and distribute and Roy’s right there… also, Crawford was in NY until not that lack ago… you know he got votes being in NY)

3) A ballot stuffing rivalry amongst the Texas Trio… look at the vote count right now; two guards from each team in the top 10 as well as two forwards from each team in the top 10 (C’mon, Texas… ya’ll are busters!)

4) Portland really is that small of a market, and doesn’t benefit much from always being the late game when broadcast nationally (hence Roy’s amazingness goes unwitnessed by Eastern viewers)

5) People are tired of hearing and seeing Portland and are making their voices heard by not voting for Roy

6) Fans want to see what innovative marketing ploy Roy will devise this time to sway the coaches to vote him in… will it be the Roy-Bot Personal RC robot, The Natural ED Male Enhancer pharmaceutical, or the Roy Wonder Bread Loaf that when toasted doesn’t show you an image of the Virgin Mary or Jesus but of Roy’s lovely mug.

ok, so, the chinese like the bucks. but does that explain why theyve suddenly fallen in love with all things LUKE RIDNOUR!? 10 pts, 5 assits,ans a steal does not an all-star make! couldnt they have just chosen the bucks’ best player: ermmm MUCHAEL REDD?

lol the stupidity of it is killing me

I wholeheartedly approve

Dallas players always get a lot of ballots stuffed but I was surprised last week to see Alston is ahead of Roy and Scola was ahead of Aldridge. You’d think the Texans would save a little love for one of their own but I guess not. At least the Chinese PG from the Lakers isn’t beating Roy.
i think our best bet is (and always will be) Roy getting picked by the coaches.

But after the first returns, I was so disappointed that I stopped cuz our hommers and other hommers dont vote for Roy, so I figured nothing will help anyway to get Roy there. Maybe coaches will vote him in. I want him to be there so the refs would give him respect.

Imagine you’re a fan of Team X, not the Blazers.

You log on to vote for your favorite players, but you also have to fill out the rest of the ballot. If you’re a fan of an Eastern Conference team, what are the chances your votes for West guards go to Kobe and Paul? Pretty good, right? If you’re a fan of a Western Conference team, you vote for one of the guards on your own team, at which point you only have one spot left for a Western Conference guard. Is it surprising that that person chooses Paul over Roy? Or Kobe over Roy?

Point being, if you can only choose two guards in the conference, the only people who will vote for Roy are Portland fans, or the people who think Roy is better than Kobe and Paul (zero people). Therefore, as a small market team, it makes total sense that he is way behind in votes. Don’t take it personally, the coaches know what’s up.

Brew Hoop is confused too.

Fan voting is a popularity contest, that’s it.

I think some people (many in this thread) take all-star weekend a bit too serious. It’s meant purely for fun. So what if the guys hardly play defense or goof off the entire time. It’s just a chance for people to see some of the most popular and best players in the league have some fun. Lighten up and take it for what it is.

For every vote Yao and Yi get overseas, Kobe, Wade, Paul, etc. is getting a vote too. Wade and Kobe are superstars in China, remember how NBC went over this in the Olympics? I doubt if anybody has even heard of Roy over there. They probably saw Roy drain the 3 against Yao, which is about it.

aka Rory Fitzpatrick syndrome