hardly. Anyone who thinks any Blazer will every seriously challenge for a starting spot in the current system of fan voting is delusional, nothing more.

There is just far too much working against us in general, and against Roy in particular. For this year

1) Roy’s performance has hardly been awe inspiring
2) the team’s way underperforming in regards to expectations
3) We play in the out of the limelight west coast, 3 hours later than Eastern time, and thus many voters probably never see our games
4) We play at a slow methodical pace that deflates our players’ raws statistical output in relation to other teams’ players’ – and like it or not, the vast majority of voters will look at raw per game stats (if they even look at stats in voting to begin with)
5) none of our players have big national endorsement contracts and/or get widestream media attention.

Trying to vote any Trail Blazer into the starting lineup in the all star game will alway be a serious uphill battle, and is all but the most ideal conditions, be a completely fruitless excercise in futility. Even Clyde only got voted to start ONE all star game in all his years as a Blazer – and that wasn’t even close to his best season, just happened to be in which he got a lot of attention (1991-92). Not to mention that was well before online and international voting. In today’s system, the only way we get a starter is if we have a well-known, established guy who is getting major national and international exposure. We haven’t had one of those since Walton.