[mikeyvthedonParticipant]

Thank you to all who contributed. The final results were as follows for who the site voted in as their All-Star reserves:

East Reserves:
C Al Horford
F Chris Bosh
F Paul Pierce
G Joe Johnson
G Rajon Rondo
F Kevin Garnett
G Raymond Felton

Others receiving votes: Ray Allen, Carlos Boozer, Danny Granger, Josh Smith, Andrew Bogut, Luol Deng

West Reserves
C Pau Gasol (Yao’s injury replacement starter)
F Dirk Nowitzki
F Blake Griffin
G Manu Ginobili
G Deron Williams
G Russell Westbrook
F LaMarcus Aldridge
F Kevin Love

Others receiving votes: Tim Duncan, Monta Ellis, Tony Parker, Steve Nash, Zach Randolph, Rudy Gay, Michael Beasley, Andrew Bynum (really?)
Surprisingly received no votes: Lamar Odom (He was mentioned as a just miss, but no one had him amongst their reserves)

The announcement is later today, thank you for participating and I hope that no one is too upset with the results. These look like pretty good teams to me, though as I personally stated I would have Duncan over Love and Allen over Felton, but they are both very deserving candidates. Let’s hope the coaches made the right choices and we do not have any players make it too far out of left field.

[mikeyvthedonParticipant]

http://basketball.realgm.com/blog/210515/How_Soon_For_All_Stars

Shows that 41 players made it as rookies, 43 in their second year and 30 in both years three/four. The latest a player has ever been chosen to their first ASG was their 12th year (Anthony Mason). Lamar Odom would tie with Mason if he is chosen tonight. I tried to post this as a topic, but it did that stupid (CAPTCHA) thing and would have screwed up the whole format, so I guess the link will suffice. It is by Chris Reina from realgm.com.

[mikeyvthedonParticipant]

What I did not realize is he used a smaller sample study by making the list only players who had been on an All-NBA first, second or third team. Still, pretty interesting.

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