All Star Ballot change

I thought this was an interesting change to the joke that is the fan All Star Ballot. Fans will now choose
2 backcourt players & 3 frontcourt players, eliminating the center position. As the article states, no more epic
Brad Miller vs Jamal Magloire back-up center battles in the All-Star game.

Of course, the issue with this change is that theoretically you could now have 3 SF's start (i.e. Melo, LBJ & Granger)
in the "frontcourt", with no actual PF's or C's, especially in the East, where the wings are stronger than the bigs.


http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/nba-cutting-center-position-star-ballots

Well this season LBJ and Melo may actually play a lot of time at PF, and some would argue that they are actually better there (kind of like Duncan as a C), so I think that scenario isn't too bad of a deal. It's almost certain that you will have a team USA situation from time to time though, with no true Centers on the entire roster.

Also, those Ball-Don't-Lie links are the worst, they totally mess up my browser when they are posted in this forum, so I exercised some Moderator privelage and fixed the link for you.

TheMagnus wrote:

Well this season LBJ and Melo may actually play a lot of time at PF, and some would argue that they are actually better there (kind of like Duncan as a C), so I think that scenario isn't too bad of a deal. It's almost certain that you will have a team USA situation from time to time though, with no true Centers on the entire roster.

Also, those Ball-Don't-Lie links are the worst, they totally mess up my browser when they are posted in this forum, so I exercised some Moderator privelage and fixed the link for you.

Thanks for fixing the link. I was thinking the same thing, that link was WAY to long.