NBA All-Star 2007

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UPDATED: 02/01/07

Aside from the Playoffs and the NBA Finals, the All-Star Weekend is one of the events basketball fans around the world look forward to every year. This year’s All-Star Weekend will be held in Las Vegas starting February 16th until the 18th. Last night, the NBa announced the starting lineup for the 2007 NBA All-Star Game.

East Starting Lineup:
G - Gilbert Arenas (Washington Wizards)
G - Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat)
F - Lebron James (Cleveland Cavaliers)
F - Chris Bosh (Toronto Raptors)
C - Shaquille O’Neal (Miami Heat)

West Starting Lineup:
G - Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers)
G - Tracy McGrady (Houston Rockets)
F - Kevin Garnett (Minnesota Timberwolves)
F - Tim Duncan (San Antonio Spurs)
C - Yao Ming (Houston Rockets)

Lebron James got the most number of votes this year with 2,516,049 votes. The second-highest total in history behind Yao Ming’s 2,558,278 which he got in 2005. Just like last year, I tried to vote as often as I could for the East & West All-Star lineup. This is my All Star lineup for this year:

I did fairly well in choosing my lineups for this year except for the West, where I only got Kobe Bryant & Kevin Garnett. For the East, Vince Carter was the only one who didn’t make the starting lineup. Gilbert Arenas narrowly beat him with just a few votes. I don’t mind coz Arenas is playing like a mad man this season. He deserves to be in the starting lineup.

You might wonder why Kobe Bryant is not in the picture. He should have been there but the last time I voted I wasn’t able to save a screenshot of my lineup. So Kobe Bryant should be in the place of Ray Allen and Ray would be in the bench for the West.

For the other guard spot, T-Mac is a good choice but I also consider Allen Iverson & Steve Nash to be deserving of that spot. I didn’t vote for Tim Duncan becoz he doesn’t belong to the All Star Game. Forgive me Duncan fans. I have great respect for him as a player and I know that he’s one of most dominant players ever in the game BUT, his style of game *yawns* doesn’t fit the showtime type of game in the All-Stars. Same goes for Yao Ming. The only reason why Yao gets that much votes is becoz of his millions of fans in China. Again, pardon me Yao fans but he’s just too slow for the pace of the All-Star Game.

Anyways, I’m just looking forward to the 2007 All-Stars. Too bad I can’t go and watch it in Vegas. I’ll just have to watch it on tv. I hope the East wins it again.

Aside from the All-Star Game which is the main event, I’m also excited to watch the Playstation Skills Challenge, Footlocker Three-point Shootout & the Sprite Slam Dunk contest.

As promised, here are the 2007 NBA All-Star Reserves:

East Squad:
Caron Butler (Washington Wizards)
Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic)
Chauncey Billups (Detroit Pistons)
Richard Hamilton (Detroit Pistons)
Jason Kidd (New Jersey Nets)
Vince Carter (New Jersey Nets)
Jermaine O’Neal (Indiana Pacers)

West Squad:
Steve Nash (Phoenix Suns)
Shawn Marion (Phoenix Suns)
Amare Stoudemire (Phoenix Suns)
Carlos Boozer (Utah Jazz)
Allen Iverson (Denver Nuggets)
Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks)
Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs)

If you ask me, Ray Allen should be playing for the West squad. His performance this season is much better than that of Tony Parker. And for the East, I believe that Ben Gordon of the Chicago Bulls should be one of the reserves. I believe he deserves the spot rather than Chauncey Billups or Rip Hamilton. I’m sure most of you NBA fans will agree on that.

image source: NBA.com