I want to see what people's predictions are. What is the hardest exercise - picking which East players are worthy of being All-Stars and deciding who gets snubbed on the stacked West team. (Subtle "Who is going to make a leap/crash and burn next year" thread)
East Kyrie / Lowry / Scrub DeRozan / Scrub / Scrub LebBron / Hayward /Scrub Scrub / Scrub Scrub West CP3/ Curry/ Westbrook Harden / Klay Thompson / Butler Durant / Paul George / Kawhi Davis / Draymond One of Cousins / Blake/ Gasol/ Millsap
East: Isaiah Thomas Kyle Lowry Lebron Hayward Giannis As starters West Curry Westbrook Kawhi Durant Anthony Davis Paul and harden both make it on the bench.
For comparisons sake, here are the rosters from year's past: http://www.nba-allstar.com/allstargame/rosters.htm My predictions: Curry / CP3 / Westbrook Harden / Butler Durant / Leonard / PG13 Davis / Griffin Cousins / Gasol vs Irving / Lowry / Wall DeRozan / IT2 / Wade Antetokoumpo / Hayward LeBron / Melo / Porzingis (Love) Horford I think Thompson, Lillard, Jordan, Gobert and LMA get snubbed from the West. I think it was freakin' hard to complete a 15 man roster for the East, lmao. I think Wade will have a great statistical year, as he'll be the guy in Chicago now that Jimmy is gone. Porzingis is a wild card; if the Knicks do well, he's definitely in the mix. If not, then sub him out for Love.
I can't believe you forgot Greek Freak. I think it's: Kyrie / Wall / Lowry IT / DeRozan / Beal LeBron / Greek Freak / Hayward Melo / Love / Porzingis Horford / Howard / Whiteside
Ooh, you're right. I dunno, I guess I was trying to be ambitious, haha. Post will be edited to reflect new changes!
I'll give it a go. WEST Starters - BC: Curry BC: Westbrook FC: Leonard FC: Durant FC: Towns Bench - G: Harden G: Paul G: Butler G: Lilliard F: Griffin F: Davis C: Gobert My personal snubs... Conley, Jokic, Draymond Green and Marc Gasol. EAST Starters BC: Isaiah Thomas BC: Lowry FC: LeBron James FC: Antetokounmpo FC: Embiid Bench G: DeRozan G: Irving G: Wall G: Beal F: Hayward F: Love C: Whiteside East is essentially 9 players from the top 4 teams and the Greek Freak + Centers
Thomas / Wall / Lowry Irving / DeRozan James / Hayward / Anthony Antetokounmpo / Love Horford / Whiteside Coach: Kidd Curry / Westbrook / Paul Harden / Butler / Thompson Leonard / George Durant / Anthony-Towns Davis / Cousins Coach: Thibodeau
Kyrie, Wall, IT DD ,Beal, Walker Lebron , Hayward Giannis, Porzingis Embiid, Whiteside VS A mess. Curry, Westbrook, CP3 Harden, Butler, Thompson? Leonard Durant, Davis, Draymond KAT, Boogie (?) Popularity with the fans also matters. EMbiid and Porzingis will do well there. On the other hand not sure about PG13.
Wow. malakas wins the Internet today with this perfect prediction from July 6th. [edit] @Juxtaposed Jolt calls 9 out of 10 starters. noice!
I'm going to cream myself if we can see a lineup of Porzingis-Embiid-Lebron and Greek Freak on the floor at the same time. That be a lot of fun to watch
If the Captains are Drafting do All star starters still start. What if one team has 6 starters and the other has 4.