What?

Is it just to show how big of a mockery the selection process is?

Let the sports writers pick the starting 5. The writers are watching the stars night in and night out. I guarantee this is the way to get the most justice out of the starting lineups.

Let the coaches select 5 players. Coaches are most likely to vote based on slightly different criteria than the writers or fans. I’ll call this the Al Jefferson vote. Last year any coach in the league who had faced both Shaq and Al know that Jefferson was having a break-out season, while Shaq was playing mediocre, at best.

Let the fans pick the last 5. That way if people are so desperate to see their favorite player, that player will get a few minutes here and there.

Voting from the writers would conclude a month before the the All Star break. Coaches would have two days after the returns from the writers to pick the next available 5 players. These processes would not take as long as the normal voting process, because we’re talking about 30 writers and 30 coaches. Lastly, the fans would have about two weeks to vote, which doesn’t seem like much, but here’s why:

1.) Fans would be forced to actually wait almost half the season before submitting a vote.
2.) The smaller time frame would make it more likely that less fair-weather fans would participate in the voting, thus hopefully eliminating the likes of this years’ TMac votes.

I would like to officially submit this to the league. David Stern, it’s your move.

This is the successful version of trying to send ’Toine to the ’08 All-Star Game. I really wanted that to happen.

but I really couldn’t care less about McGrady getting in. It’s the All Star Game, it’s never been the guys who had the best couple of months leading up to the game. Not in my lifetime. If people want to see him, fine. It’s an exhibition game, and a bunch of guys who deserve to be rewarded will get in will the coach’s selections. Also, it’s kinda funny.

I guy in the picture is hilarious. I don’t think anyone would try that even if it’s the Eurosong contest .. and we’ve seen a LOT there…

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IF McGrady made his season debut during the All-Star Game. It’s becoming pretty evident that Houston doesn’t want to play him, but it sounds like he may be healthy enough to play now. That would be pretty interesting if it did happen.