and they pick  NO and POR players
doesnt make sense to me
Portland isnt making the playoffs in my eyes;

I'm almost sure the Blazers won't make the playoffs, and I've been saying it for a while.

david west plays for the NEW ORLEANS hornets.

west + NO = all-star pick. it's the ONLY reason he's in to begin with.

of all people..west!? lol?

I'm really happy for Roy (I think he deserved it) but I would be pissed off if I were you guys.  I know Davis is an allstar.

I'm sure you guys take heart in the fact that the allstar game means pretty much nothing. If the Warriors make the playoffs and the Blazers don't, that's all Baron should or will care about.

The selection of starters is a popularity contest and also done by hired staff by some teams to vote thousands of times a day.

The subs are selected by coaches who like any other person, remembers who torches them during the season and in previous years.  Personal vendetta has to play a role in that.  Not to mention the overated Byron Scott who drove Baron out of NO is probably going to coach the squad.  I highly doubt that Scott wanted Baron on his bench.

Baron's our MVP no doubt but nobody outside the Dubz nation gives a crap about him so we could care less about him making the cut for a beauty pageant for the rest of the NBA.

Roy has taken a team that was not expected to even sniff the playoff race this year and helped to make them a legit playoff contender.

West, while not getting a lot of pub, is a 20 and 10 guy on the team with the best record in the west.

I would have liked to see Baron instead of Roy but I can understand him getting the nod because of all the publicity they got during their long winning streak. People love to vote for surprises and winners. I can't get too mad at the choices... well maybe a little. Their were just too many good guards this year.

. WERD

Also, there is a key on the lower left and right hand side of your keyboard called "Shift," if you push that, it will capitalize words at the beginning of sentences.  

But looking at the bright side, he's going to get an extra week of rest and probably play with an even bigger chip on the shoulder for the rest of the season.

BTW was going to go over to Blazer's Edge to congratulate them but started reading their diaries and saw that they're calling us animals for reacting the way we did in this thread.  F that.  

What in the Hell Do We Need To Do To Have Representation as an All Star. Not since Spree?

That's it.
I'm writing a letter to every Western Head Coach, whose with me?

I completely understand Warrior fans being angry over this, because it is a snub.  You just can't be SURPRISED by it though.  Baron Davis isn't exactly a coaches favorite.  And TWO of the 15 voting coaches are George Karl and Byron Scott-- both not big fans of Baron.  Just having those two coaches not vote for Baron is probably enough to not get him on the team (with all of the good guards this year).

I don't mind you guys venting, and as a Blazer fan I know how good Roy is.  We got a bright future and our teams will have fun battles over the next few seasons.  But really, the problem isn't Roy, it's the coaches not appreciating Davis for whatever reason they got.

Baron has much better numbers, but you can't deny that Roy is a coach's player.  

And West is having a great season.  I dunno how he played against the Dubs, but he's killed the Blazers even when we beat them twice.  The surprise teams always get extra votes, as well.

If not Roy or West, it'd be Ginobili or Parker or Deron or McGrady or Josh Howard.  There are a ton of good players in the west and you can't trust the coaches to not bring their own biases into the vote.

To me, as a Blazer homer, it should be Baron and Roy.  But I know what the coaches like, and I'm not surprised by the snub.  You just gotta make them pay in the playoffs.

Mortimer

this is just as bad as Charles Barkley not dissing us last year or even worse!  baron is running out of NBA years so we as fans might never see another warrior in all star game since friggin spree. Jrich winning back to back SD comps were nice but i'd like our LEADER to get his damn props!

just look at the damn numbers!!! how does roy get over when he's already participating in the Rookie Game?  i dont how some people can stomach this.  

if you ask me, it is that serious.  

Roy and West were just as deserving as all the other players that have been putting out great seasons this year, so it was expected that there were going to heartbreaks.

ワリアーズ！

from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/09/SP3DUBGFR.DTL

but my feeling is that the All Star game is all about glitz and money and has nothing to do with talent. I mean, c'mon, look how the voting was done.  The Miss America pageant has a more fair and balanced way of voting than this joke of a "log in daily and vote" for weeks before the game.  There's no "fairness" with that kind of voting - the whole thing is done just to get people to log into NBA.com because every time they do, T-Mobile, Haier, Lenovo and all their other paid advertisers get more visibility.  It's all about MONEY, NOT talent.  If it was truly an "all STAR" team, the players would be picked by their stats and not by anonymous fans nor by the coaches who are always going to pick their favorites regardless if there are others more deserving.