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https://www.nba.com/article/2016/12/19/players-media-all-star-starters-vote

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NBA is adding players and media to the voting process in a change to the way starters for the All-Star Game are selected.

Fans will account for 50 percent of the vote, while all current players and a panel of basketball media will each account for 25 percent.

The NBA has used fan voting to select the starters for its midseason game since the 1974-75 season.

Voting begins Sunday during the NBA's five-game Christmas lineup. Players can each complete one ballot, featuring three frontcourt players and two guards in each conference, and may vote for themselves or teammates.

Fans can submit one ballot each day through NBA.com, the NBA App, Twitter, Facebook and Google Search, as well as via Sina Weibo and Tencent Microblogs in China.

Voting will conclude Jan. 16. The All-Star Game is Feb. 19 in New Orleans.
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So fans will only make up half the vote, 25% goes to media and 25% to players.

Does this improve the chances that a Jazz player will make the starting squad?
 
It's a step in the right direction, but for now, it doesn't really affect the Jazz since we don't have anyone that would even be in the discussion to be a starter on the all-star team.
 
akirac73 said:
It's a step in the right direction, but for now, it doesn't really affect the Jazz since we don't have anyone that would even be in the discussion to be a starter on the all-star team.
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akirac73 said:
It's a step in the right direction, but for now, it doesn't really affect the Jazz since we don't have anyone that would even be in the discussion to be a starter on the all-star team.
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The **** you say? See Fish's post.
 
It obviously helps Jazz. Gobert or Hayward have no chance to be voted by fans so them getting 50% extra support from media and players is sure help.
 
I think this helps the Jazz a lot. This could potentially stop an undeserving player from making the team at all which makes it more likely that a deserving player (Jazz player) makes it instead. There have been a lot of starters that would not be on the team at all if it weren't for the fan vote. This change increases that chances that those typer of players don't make it anymore.
 
This is great news, and I don't think you can assume it wouldn't help the Jazz. The players and media could vote strongly enough for say, Gobert, that we'd only need a few votes from the fans to put him over.

Good step in the right direction, and hopefully it leads to getting rid of fan voting altogether. Voting in someone like Kobe last year cheated some player who worked his *** off to earn his rightful place among the best in the league.

Either way, I'm just going to go ahead and predict Gobert gets voted in by the coaches this year, even if the new change doesn't get him as the starter.
 
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