All Star Funk

Boston Celtics guard and 13 year veteran Ray Allen is a little flustered with this year's All Star team voting and with the NBA allowing fans to vote players on the team. Ray Allen’s argument is that players are getting snubbed for players he feel shouldn't even be close to being on the team. Ray wants players who actually play during the season be on the All Star team. Ray Allen says, "I like the fact the fans get the opportunity to vote and pick who they'd like to see in the All Star Game, but I don't think it should be 100 percent."
The first player he must have a problem with is Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson. Iverson has been in a slump over the past couple years and hasn't really posted All Star numbers. As a matter of fact Allen has just come out of retirement two months ago as he received a second chance with the team that drafted him. Iverson has also been hampered by minor injuries due to him getting back in shape. I don't think Allen Iverson has played more than twenty games this season, but it's still more than the Western Conference All Star voted to this year's game.
Tracy McGrady of the Houston Rockets will be making his eighth All Star appearance and has only played five regular season games. The funny thing is that Tracy McGrady was voted into the All Star Game before he even played one minute in the regular season and is not even really on the Houston Rockets team right now. Tracy has been suspended indefinitely from the Rockets' team and they are actively trying to trade him before the upcoming deadline. Tracy is a good player, but he can't be an All Star this year.
There are plenty of other much deserving players who won't make this year's All Star team due to these votes such as Portland Trailblazer's guard Brandon Roy and Utah Jazz guard Derron Williams. Brandon Roy has been the leader of his young and injury riddled Trailblazers team that is on its way to the playoffs. Also Derron Williams who is a premiere point guard for the Jazz or you can even make a case for Memphis Grizzlies forward Rudy Gay. On the Eastern Conference side you can choose Stephen Jackson or Gerald Wallace from the Charlotte Bobcats. Gerald Wallace is averaging a double double with 18.3 points and 11.5 rebounds a game as a small forward. Not to mention Atlanta Hawks guard Mike Bibby or even the guy who started this conversation in Boston's Ray Allen.
Whoever makes it to the All Star game will be well deserving of it even if it is Tracy McGrady or Allen Iverson. These two players are proven veterans and have been to the All Star game before and that might be the reason why they needed to be snubbed this year. The league has a thriving young core of players, but that's what they are young. These players have plenty of more years to make the All Star team. The All Star game is like any other sport's All Star game, it's for the fans and the fans know who they want to see. If players feel slighted by being kept out of the All Star game, there is only one thing to do and that’s do what you have to do to be a fan favorite. Stay after the game and take pictures with fans and give out autographs along with public appearances. If that doesn't work, play better.