Mike Lowry wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:20 pm
Who is going to be the biggest All-Star snub?
This is a more complicated question than it seems, since it requires me to first project the all-stars for each side. But I'll bite anyway. The West has a lot of deserving players at every position, but in the East, I think the snub is easier because there's really only one Center that deserves a spot (Joe Barry Carroll), and somebody is going to get the backup C spot that doesn't deserve it compared to the guys that get squeezed out. I think Larry Nancy in Philadelphia loses out in the numbers game - he'd go if he was listed at C, but since he's playing forward, he gets squeezed out due to all the great forwards in the East.
Why should this player be an All-Star?
He's averaging a double-double 18.9 ppg and 10.1 rpg, 3.0 apg, 0.5 spg, 1.5 bpg, and only 2.9 fouls), and I suspect Elvin Hayes is your backup Center in the East (21.4 ppg, but only 7.8 rpg, 1.4 apg, 0.4 spg, 0.8 bpg... and 4.1 fouls per game)... yes, Hayes scores 2.5 ppg more, but I think Nance's 2.3 rpg, 1.6 apg, and 0.7 bpg and fewer fouls per game make him the better al-around player.
Why is he not going to be?
As mentioned, it's a numbers game. You have to have two centers per team, and while I think in a vacuum Nance is having the better season, and if he played Center he'd be going, he's not, so he won't.