True. And if they’re willing to pick a player from a team with a really bad record it should’ve been michael porter

They might have rewarded him for last season since the All Star game is at its halfway point. It’s not really in the rules like that but sometimes coaches do that because that’s the way they think. I think they chose Khris Middleton to be an All Star the year after they won and there were a few snubs too but Middleton got additionally rewarded for the past season where they won. 

It’s more an acknowledgement of last year’s playoffs from the coaches.

he’s actually hurting his team by not tanking properly

It’s an individual award, not an MVP. If a player is still efficient, and that team is somehow a functioning NBA team with them on the floor vs them off I don’t see a reason why they shouldn’t be considered. 

Its the all star game not all nba

Nah that’s a ridiculous take. If that’s actually how voters or fans think why even have an all star game involving the entire league? Just pick some players from the current 1 seeds

Literally the same reason why Kawhi wasn’t selected because the Clippers position, ignoring the fact that they’ve been balling and climbing standings because of Kawhi

I think Adam Silver said they’d fill them out to balance the amount of players on the teams, but I feel like all this premature artificial hype for US vs World enticed ballots to lean towards getting a guy like Siakam early when he may’ve just been added through injury replacement or however the roster balance thing would’ve work (still may happen, but idk if they will label KAT as a world player but they’d probably try to avoid that)

If that was the goal, they could’ve gave him Giannis injury replacement spot because I doubt they will give it to Ingram because Giannis is an international player and instead they will give it to an international player

I think so. They never really used to pick player from bad teams. Brad Beal was leading the league in scoring and was snubbed from the game because of team record

Yeah Pascal seems like the odd one out due to the record.

Yea, and nothing did. So what?

He got freed from the Pelicans

I agree tbh

And Siakam is? Its a position based on relativity with their peers not a flatline qualification.

Its only going to get better as more people play basketball. Nba is still 80% American, theres still a lot of potential talent thats not in the nba yet. The nba will probably always have an american majority, but its telling that the consensus top 4 players have been international since 2022.

The Raptors are a game and a half behind the Knicks and they got 2 all stars. Brunson obviously deserves it but has KAT really had a season worthy of an allstar selection? I would have gone with Ingram over KAT and I don’t think a 1.5 game difference in their team records is particularly meaningful.

lebron?

Facts no way there needed to be two raptors