Jason Kidd Is An All-Star? Where Can I Sign Up?
by Tom Martin on Feb 12, 2010 5:10 PM CST
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Jason Kidd is an All-Star in 2010. Does he still start for the Mavericks?
Apparently, the NBA loves assists. Just loves 'em. This comes as a bit of a surprise to me, since Brevin Knight averaged 10 points and 9 assists in 2005, and wasn't even considered as a possible alternate.
So, with that said, the NBA suddenly going to deem Jason Kidd to be an All-Star this season. Because he does so many other things, of course. Like shoot open threes when his two All-Star caliber teammates get doubled. That must be it. Brevin Knight couldn't shoot threes. I get it now.
To be clear, my complaints come free of a personal agenda. I'm not here to support Aaron Brooks' case. It would make my day, absolutely, to see ABZ become an All-Star this year. That is, as long as Tyreke Evans was already on the team first.
Does 20/4/5 as a rookie not outshine 9/5/9? If not, then surely the way Evans' adjusted APER (20.6) trumps Kidd's (16.6) makes an impression. Or the fact that when the Kings need someone to turn to, they go to Evans and ask him to produce miracles. When Dallas needs a clutch basket, they call on Kidd to make a good inbounds pass to Dirk, and then get the hell out of the way.
When Sacramento needs a key defensive stop, they'll likely match Tyreke up against opposing team's primary ballhandler. If Dallas needs a key stop, they make sure to put Jason Kidd on the bench.
What an embarrassing decision by the NBA. I know this is the league where stars are preserved and protected, but this is ridiculous.
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Hmm
civil uproar aside, the kings don’t quite have the “close to .500” record-tag. yeah, i know that kaman is in (replacement).
reportedly cuban lobbied for kidd, who already was/is in phoenix golfing.
given that the game is in dallas, i see stern’s point in agreeing. i’d prefer kidd resting, though.
brooks/boozer/aldrigde would’ve been cool with me. I just hope he takes his snub as motivation to end the turrible sw-division-wide slump for the rest of the season.
conclusion: chill. no need to get a fit. }]
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I appreciate the outrage Tom
But this is the same league that left off Chris Paul and LeBron James as rookies off the All-Star team. (I grant there wasn’t a slew of injuries.) Anyway, it’s just silly. To be quite honest, while it would be a great honor for Reke to be considered, I don’t mind Kidd making it. I would rather Reke rest than having to spend time doing something that doesn’t matter nearly as much as the real games themselves.
As far as whether Reke matters to the Kings and is the big reason they’ve won 18 games, there is no doubt of this.
I don’t really care about the AS game and I personally believe it’s a completely pointless exercise in futility. The only reason teams don’t mind it anymore is because they all can gather in one place and talk to each other. It’s mostly business now, and the actual events are just there so they can make money.
So, while I’m a Kings fan, and proud to be so, I’m not outraged about Reke not making the AS game. I hope he comes out healthy to be honest. That’s what I care about first & foremost.
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The Rockets get a whole week off.
I like that a lot.
I think the problem is that I’ve never like Kidd. It’s not his fault in some way – whatever he’s talked up as, the reality of him is always less. Always. When he has good years, he’s the greatest ever. When he has average years, he’s merely great. When he’s closing his career in respectable style, he’s an all-star.
But there’s no arguing with Kidd love. His admirers will not hear of it. They won’t acknowledge that most of his greatness is the accumulation of “counting stats” over a long career. That’s fine, and I appreciate it, but Kidd personally, like his game, just has always left me cold. Piling up lots of it doesn’t change it.
Significant gravitas shortfall expected in 2010.
Im sure you know that Allen Iveson was voted to start for the east.
I know that’s not the commissioner’s decision and that’s just brainless fans voting, but the I guess the world is just an unfair pace. A fact that is becoming more clear to me by the day, as a Wiz and Rox fan. But seriously though, vets are always more likely to be put in this game. That’s just how it works. And J Kidd is bound to pull out some flashy alley-oop to Amare that will make the the people cheer
by returnofswagger on Feb 12, 2010 5:59 PM CST reply actions
It makes the locals happy.
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Since they're the only ones who are gonna be able to get to the game
maybe they’d better add Eric Dampier so his 8 fans will show up.
Significant gravitas shortfall expected in 2010.
by Xiane on Feb 12, 2010 8:30 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm surprised
that the Dallas media hasn’t a bigger deal of it. I live in the DFW area and the media here is extremely critical of everything the Cowboys and Mavs do. It’s just unreal.
On a different note, this is why I wish there wasn’t as much of an emphasis on how well a team is doing when a player is selected. There have been plenty of good players who have been stuck on bad teams and it’s not their fault the GM has assembled such an awful team or that injuries have plagued that team. The whole process of choosing All-Star starters is a complete joke. Popular players have their credentials padded just because the NBA wants to give the fans what they want. In 20 years when people debate who the best players were, they are gonna look to all-star appearances as one measure of how good a player was. I wish the fan vote meant a little less and that coaches and players were included in the process because there’s no way KG or AI deserve to be starters. Just my thoughts
You're right about the Dallas sportsmedia.
They seem to expect effortless perfection, and no Dallas team ever loses to a superior opponent, they have moral failings and character flaws instead.
Houston, on the other hand, specializes on giving egregious BS a pass, and being unrealistically optimistic, and when things go bad, unrealistically pessimistic.
Of course if you go by efficiency of production, no matter how a team is doing, then Corey Maggette is an all star.
Significant gravitas shortfall expected in 2010.
For the Cowboys...
after they lost the first game in december, every local media member said they were done and started talking about the draft. Then they win their first playoff game and they expected to win the superbowl, they are a crazy bunch up here.
Haha well maybe let’s not cast votes on pure efficiency. It just sucks seeing deserving guys sit out when their spots are taken by guys that don’t deserve it. It doesn’t bother me when someone who does deserve it can’t get in because there are so many other great players that year, but it does suck when spots are wasted.
this is probably just
because dallas is hosting. i agree though, it should definitely have been tyreke if they had wanted to go with a guard. but i was sure they were going to go with boozer i think he’s the most deserving, so at least we don’t have to wach two jazz players in the game.
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