Huge S/O to @KyrieIrving & @Paul_George24 on their All-Star selections! Big time homies
@KingJames
LeBron James
Congrats to the all star reserves. Has to be a great feeling. Congrats!
@Darren_Collison
Darren Collison
Congrats to my bro/teammate @KyrieIrving for making the all star team. Well deserved and in my opinion top 5 pg in the league. Proud of you!
@RealTristan13
Tristan Thompson
3 teams in east are on playoffs over 500 and no Allstars! http://t.co/NeqLqFyN
@TheJetOnTNT
Kenny Smith
Shout out to my bro @Jrue_Holiday11 for his first all star appearance.. #Rivalsfamily!!
@MookMorris2
Marcus Morris
Congrats to my teammate @Paul_George24 on his accomplishment proud of you little bro you deserve it so enjoy it!!!!
@George_Hill3
INDIANA GEORGE HILL
Congrats to my teammate @russwest44 and to my friend @jharden13 for making the All Star team. Well deserved!
@sergeibaka9
Serge Ibaka
Congrats to @JHarden13 on his Allstar selection and many more to come. Y'all better get used to this lol
@NazrMohammed
Nazr Mohammed
An alternative to the 15 man roster, is to have the Commissioner choose 1 or 2 players in each conference, himself, days before the All Star Game. The Commissioner normally decides anyway, when there are injuries.
By choosing shortly before the ASG he can best pick the most snubbed and deserving players who had been left off.
Quotes of the night: Billy King on Lopez (and Joe Johnson) not being selected:
@bkdefend:
“I’m speechless”
Avery Johnson Jr., who has a right to be very upset with the Nets on the firing of his father:
Avery Johnson Jr. @itsaveryjohnson
I agree with what Charles Barkley said. But Brook Lopez is An all-star. That’s it
And BTW, contrary to what Charles Barkley said, Deron Williams had nothing to do with Avery being fired, other than playing poorly in the month of December. He never even spoke with the Front Office and didn’t want Avery to be fired. He likes Avery.
By far the biggest Snub was Brook Lopez. At least the Warriors had 1 All Star selection in David Lee. Nets had the best record 0.614 not to have an All Star. Brook had never been named to AS game and the coaches are supposed to favor new talent rather than go with old names like Chris Bosh.
Josh Smith didn’t deserve to make AS game over his terrible team play, especially in recent days.
Brook Lopez was the most consistent and most important player for the Nets and most don’t know it, but he only played 30 mpg to accumulate his fantastic (per 36 numbers).
Charles Barkley was 100% correct that the reason for the Nets snubs (Lopez and Joe Johnson-had 3 game winners), was because the coaches wanted to punish the Nets for firing Avery Johnson.
Soon Lopez will be traded for Dwight Howard, in a straight deal, via Kevin Love. Does Minny think Brook is an All Star – You Bet they do.
Lopez is the BEST Center in the NBA right now, with Howard “dogging it”, trying to get out of LA in the worst way.