2007-02-21 12:27:36 · 10 answers · asked by stormc2 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
they shouldn't if. if anything the coaches should choose the first 10 players that make both teams and fans should control the last 2 players that make the team therefore making it more fair. For example somehow Shaquille O'neal started over Dwight Howard in this years all star game because fans who don't know squat about basketball were voting for the starting line-ups. This is why the voting should be done differently. But all in all the all star game is put on to entertain the fans so they put a bunch of guys like vince carter on the court to throw it down over the other team. One year i would like to see a team play some defense and for one of the sides to score under 120 points maybe even under 100.
2007-02-21 12:54:50 · answer #1 · answered by max m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the All Star game is first and foremost about MARKETING. Talent comes after. That's why you have players like Tony Parker in the all star game, because he's going out with Eva Longoria and it's useful to have him there so you can cut away to her and make the NBA every day more popular to all kinds of audience, while someone like Manu Ginobili isn't selected even though he 's just as good as TP or maybe better. But he doesn't have the right girlfriend...
2007-02-21 15:28:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
99% of the time, they pick shoo-ins for the All-Star team anyway so it doesn't matter. The only reason I am saying 99% of the time is because they voted Shaq in instead of Dwight Howard. He wouldn't have been picked as a reserve if Dwight Howard was voted as the starting center. I really don't think that its that big of a deal that Shaq got in because Shaq makes the All-Star game funny anyway. There is probably also a couple more times where somebody else got in who shouldn't have been in the starting line-up, but it wasn't like they voted some twelveth man in from a small-market franchise anyway.
2007-02-21 14:10:04 · answer #3 · answered by eddie_sharrak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think fans are allowed to vote because the people should have control one part of the NBA
2007-02-21 13:13:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not. It's a popularity contest. The votes are effectively the answer to the question, "Who do you want to see in the All-Star Game?", not "Who are the most skillful players in the NBA?".
2007-02-21 12:39:07 · answer #5 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
less viewers tune if if the coaces choose, i dont think lebron would have been picked this year by the coaches, he has had a lot less productivity then last year, same with shaq, he sucks now but lebron still got the most votes and shaq got in to, u got to get paul pierce and pau gasol evn some peja and some rashed walace, these are the less appreciated people and they need to be in the all tsar game not caron butler (brandon roy for rookie of the year)
2007-02-21 12:52:06 · answer #6 · answered by Keith W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The game is for the fans' enjoyment, so the fans select who they want to see play.
2007-02-21 17:06:56 · answer #7 · answered by Meekha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because its a marketing exercise. votes are sort of survey to determine who is hot and not.
2007-02-21 12:43:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they let us chose so they don't hav to mess with their heads
2007-02-21 13:08:18 · answer #9 · answered by DiDude 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they shouldnt.
2007-02-21 12:37:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋