NBA All-Star Snubs – Who Should Have Made It
January 31, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Sports Rumors
The 2009 All-Star Game reserves were recently named and the coaches got most of the selections right. However, there were three blatant mistakes made. Here are the three snubs along with the three players who should have been left off the All-Star team.
In: Ray Allen
Out: Devin Harris
There’s absolutely no way that Devin Harris should have made the All-Star team before Ray Allen. Allen is having a great shooting year despite not getting his usual amount of shots. Harris, on the other hand, gets tons of shots and tons of plays called for him on a bad team. You’d think the coaches would recognize the sacrifices Allen has made to make the Celtics a championship team while also recognizing that Harris is a product of his system.
In: Mo Williams
Out: Jameer Nelson
The Magic are having a good season but having three All-Stars is going overboard. As for the Cavs, they too are having a very good season but they have only one All-Star. The fair thing to do would be to swap in Mo Williams and swap out Jameer Nelson. That would give each team two players in the All-Star game … which would be more than fair.
In: Al Jefferson
Out: David West
The coaches simply got lazy with the selection of David West. He’s a great player but he’s not playing as well as last season. Al Jefferson, on the other hand, is playing as well as any forward in the Western Conference. He also has the T’Wolves playing great basketball while West remains a talented role player.
Ray Allen over Devin Harris?
Devin:
PPG 21.5
RPG 3.10
APG 6.4
Ray:
PPG 17.9
RPG 3.40
APG 2.8
You can talk all you want to about systems, but Devin is not only scoring more this year than Ray, but passing better as well. Yes Ray is having a stellar and above his average year, but Devin is having a breakout season. Ray’s season high in scoring this season is 27. Devin, has been equal to or above that number 9 times. Ray’s season high in rebounds is 9. Devins been in double digits 6 times. How those aren’t all-star deserving numbers I don’t know. Devin has shown leadership, and is doing great in helping develop one of the future stars of the NBA in Brook Lopez. Ray Allen is getting old fast and I understand why many want him in, but the same can be said about Vince Carter…
Al Jefferson is the biggest snub in my opinion.
Jameer Nelson definitely shouldn’t be in.
But in my opinion, AI is one of the most confusing All-Star game picks. The fans really screwed up on that one.
ray’s season high is 36 and he made 28 points in 19 minutes, last year in the all-star game to lead the east to victory…