Rafer's family must have a lot of free time

by grungedave on Dec 25, 2008 9:59 PM CST in Discussions about Badasses Comment 7 comments

First wave of all-star voting was released today.

Some notable names:

Crazy Pills is 5th among Western Conference forwards, but he's only 117,079 votes behind the guy in 2nd... Amar'e Stoudemire. BTW, Amar'e - the new spelling of your name sucks. And only Lee likes it because it allows him to use more apostrophes... nah, I bet he hates it too.

Anyway, also among WC forwards is one Luis Scola, languishing with only 181,253 votes to his name. In contrast, one Rafer Alston has a stunning 211,017 votes.

Read that again. Rafer Freakin' Alston has over 200,000 people think he's All-Star worthy. His family must be really damned busy these days punching holes in ballots.

If that Rafer statistic alone isn't enough to yank away the privilege of voting from the fans, I don't know what is. Oh, wait, check that... I found an even worse violation. Easy Yi has 762,000+ votes to rank 3rd among Eastern Conference forwards. That is seriously messed up.

Tracy somehow is 2nd among Western guards. I'll stop now before I get a headache trying to analyze that one. I know I should support Tracy to the end being that he's a Rocket, but to deny CP3 an All-Star spot is just wrong.

Ahhhh, enough of this. GO VOTE FOR LUIS SCOLA!! NOW!!

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Ah, the advantages of being Yao's teammate

by goingforthecorner on Dec 25, 2008 11:13 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I'm not surprised by Rafer's vote

he IS skip2mylou. a lot of internet websites worship him, coupled with being Yao’s teammate helps too.

by misterterrific on Dec 25, 2008 11:22 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Never underestimate the coincidental love of a billion Chinese.

by Only_A_Lad on Dec 25, 2008 11:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Also,

see Yi’s 762,162 votes

by Only_A_Lad on Dec 25, 2008 11:29 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

What's really crazy

is that T-Mac is ahead of Chris Paul in voting (only by about 20,000, but still good for #2 behind Kobe). He has been putrid throughout so much of the early season. But you get most of your votes, I suppose, purely from reputation and past performance.

by Only_A_Lad on Dec 25, 2008 11:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

NEW YORK (SI.com) — Dwight Howard and LeBron James have the early lead in the Eastern Conference, while Kobe Bryant and Yao Ming top the Western Conference after the second returns of 2009 NBA All-Star balloting. Howard, the reigning slam dunk champion, is the overall leader with 1,421,882 votes.

by Cornholio on Dec 26, 2008 8:10 AM CST reply actions 0 recs