Pretty much, Tracy McGrady (aka T-Mac, aka Punk @ss, aka Captain DNP) is the second leading vote getter for the All-Star game in the West, only trailing Kobe Bryant. He's a guard, so that means that a player like Brandon Roy or Deron Williams won't get in if the NBA doesn't intervene. T-Mac has only played in six games this year...for a total of 46 minutes.
Now he's not a fan favorite. He's got a popular name, so when people vote who don't know much about the other players in the list, they pick a popular name. It's partially the NBA's fault for making people vote for every position. If you're a Boston Celtics honk, and you log on to vote for Kevin Garnett, you shouldn't be forced to vote for every position in both conferences. Especially if you're just scrolling the list and you pick a name you know to get it done quick.
Secondly, the report is that China has adopted the Houston Rockets as their national NBA team. And because Yao isn't playing, they're still voting all Rockets for the All-Star game. Even the ones who don't play. Freaking Chinese. Don't they have enough to worry about with a billion people without having to involve themselves in the All-Star voting?
Now the NBA could fix this. All they have to do is say that a player must play in 50% of the games leading up to the All-Star game. It's not an unfair rule, and it actually will make sense. They can even call it the T-Mac rule if they want to. Nobody here cares. But instead, Daniel Stern will try to figure out how not to piss off a billion Chinese who buy NBA licensed merchandise. Hooray us. Or T-Mac could just step the hell back and decline. But that probably won't happen.
What's the solution? Well, if we don't make him stay home, then we need to be fair and open up one more spot on each roster. It's the All-Star game after all. One more star player probably won't make or break the thing. We suffer through T-Mac, hope the Dallas fans boo him, keep the Chinese happy and get one more deserving player in the game.
Oh, we can vote with our wallets too. Don't buy this card. A T-Mac RC is better in the burn pile than the Ebay BIN lists.
3 comments:
Just another reason that the All Star game is worthless. I say let him go. Nate Robinson always needs a new forehead to rub his sack on.
Lol. I think that T-Mac has probably played more minutes than Robinson has.
The All-Star game, or any All-Star game, is really worthless. But it's fun to watch if it's done right.
The NBA will make sure he does not win the voting. T-Mac is one of those players careers are basically done by age 30 (Webber, Larry Johnson, Kemp, Brand, Gugliotta, McDyess) because of injury. If he wants to he can become a support player for the next 5 years like McDyess.
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