 What's the word, y'all? NBA All-Star starters were announced yesterday and everybody's trying to figure out did the NBA get it right? Answers, no, they never do. They never do. We make this video once a year and we always talk about how they didn't get it right. And listen, it's not necessarily about who were announced to be starters because in my opinion, all 10 of the names that were announced yesterday deserve to be All-Stars. They deserve to be in the conversation for All-Star starter. But what they did get it wrong is the positions. It's always about the positions, man. At this point in the game, I don't know how we're in 2023 and we still pigeonholing each other to the positions. The NBA has been somewhat progressive when it comes to these things because it used to be two guards, two forwards and one center. We had to guarantee a center and then we went to that period and NBA history where there were no good centers. Jamal McGlure, one time All-Star because we needed a center there. And then they were like, okay, instead of making sure it's a center, how about we just classify the centers with the forwards kind of put them at a disadvantage, but whatever, they were really bad back then. And now it's the two guards, three forwards. I do believe that eventually it's gonna be positionless because I don't know how you convince yourself that it shouldn't be positions considering how talented and how good these players are. Because if Jordan LaBeat is a certain in the start lineup for one of the guards, whether it be Kari Irv and Adonis Vimiciu, I don't really care which one it is. He's having a better season than both of them. Let's go piss some people off. You can't convince me that like a Jason Tatum, remember, we're not even talking about the teens because they're gonna have a draft, but Jason Tatum can't be a pseudo shooting guard This is the all-star game. It shouldn't, Matt, you should be able to run five centers if you want to in the all-star game. Whatever the most enjoyable is, but I also do believe that a lot of people are up in arms for no reason. I understand Philly fans being up in arms because this is their guy, this is their dude. According to NBA this morning, he was number two on the MVP ladder at this moment. You try to tell me that guy's not a starter, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. We know Jordan LaBeat is gonna be an all-star this season. You know what I'm saying? And that's all that matters. Once it's said and done and Jordan LaBeat has retired, it's gonna say 14. I don't know how many all-star games he's gonna get X amount of all-star games. It won't say six as a starter, three off the bench, two as a result. No, it doesn't work like that. You know what I'm saying? So I know he's frustrated because in his life, he always feels like he's running up, especially because Jokic has won the MVP over him two times in a row, and it might be a third. He's second on the ballet. You know who's number one right now on that MVP ladder is Jokic. So it might be three years in a row with Jordan LaBeat has become the runner up. You know what Kevin Arand did when he was the runner up every single year? He made it part of his brand. I'm tired of being number two. And he won an MVP award. Jordan LaBeat and who is he with? Under Armour, he's got to put on some cool ass kicks and do a whole campaign about being runner up. And that's gonna be the year that he won it. But now it's not super important to me who actually starts or who's coming off the bench because at the end of the day, every person you think got snubbed is gonna be there. The Shagest snub for Western Conference Guards maybe, but we know he's gonna be there. The Demacia Bonus or Larry Marketing or Anthony Davis gets snubbed. All of those players should be there. I can't say for sure because I saw some ballots from people that actually have like votes and some of them that have some bonus. And I just don't understand the conversation. They didn't explain it. I'm willing to hear them out, but I think that any battle that doesn't have some bonuses in all stars not watching enough basketball, not watching enough Sacramento Kings. They're the second best offense in all the basketball and he is the hub of that. It's him. Anyway, once it's all said and done and we get the reserves, there are 100% is gonna be snubs because there are a lot of really, really talented players in the game of basketball. I am more not concerned, but excited about one specific thing. I love this every single season because we only get to see the fan votes, as we're going through these eight. They give you the three returns or whatever. I'm always curious to see who is respected amongst his peers. At the end of the day, it don't matter, but I'm always curious. So for example, when we're looking at the Western Conference player rankings, the things that stand out to me is that Larry Marketing already has the respect of his peers. It usually doesn't happen like that. He was ranked fourth amongst four court players when it came to voting only behind Zion, Jokic and LeBron James. So like Anthony Davis, and it's probably because Anthony Davis missed a bunch of time. He was seventh, seventh, but also Zion Williamson missed a lot of time. I think the amount of time that they missed is nearly identical, but Z is actively injured and made the All-Star starters where Anthony Davis has come back. But again, I don't know when these were all tallied up so they could have tallied up the day before Anthony Davis came back from his injury regardless to see Zion, Larry Marketing and DeMonte Sabonis get more votes than Anthony Davis is surprising to me. And then we get to the media. The media look like they showing they love to Sabonis. It's just a matter of if the coach is going to do the same thing. And I feel like they will. It's cool to see Dianna Fox get the same amount of player votes than Damian Lillard. I mean, actually, okay, cool. Might not be the word, but it's surprising considering Dame is still lighting things up every single day for him to be tied with Dianna Fox when it comes to his peers. It's interesting. Now, the media vote is going to be all heavily these four because these four seems like they're leagues ahead of the pack when you're putting in the ballot. But let's go to the Eastern Conference because I think that one's even more interesting because the likes of Trey Young, who still average in 27 and what 10 on the season, like he's still having a really good counting stack season. He is 12th in player ranking. He's behind Lamello in player ranking and Lamello's played like three weeks worth of basketball, it feels like. He's behind Darius Garland, Jaylen Brunson. He's behind everybody. I mean, is this surprising? It's notable. It's notable. I can't say it's surprising. It's definitely notable though. And now in the front court, Julius Randall not having the respect of his peers, at least compared to the others is surprised. I mean, Palo Bencaro ranked higher amongst his peers than Julius Randall who's having a phenomenal season and the nicks are good. Again, things like that are really throwing me off. This is also throwing me off. Ote Abadze ended up with four votes. Kemba Walker ended up with one vote and they had to point out that he played a total of nine games. And then Keon Alexander Walker got four votes. So the players don't take it necessarily seriously. Chet Holmgren also got four votes and he hasn't suited up. He been fleek or sad, you know what I'm saying? Nice fits getting fits off. What I'm thinking is happening is the O.K.C. brotherhood just start voting for each other because they knew the only vote that mattered to them was for Shay. Keon Harris got a vote. Vett Kredge, I feel like people are just finding the most random names and giving them to him. What's the solution to this problem? There really isn't one. You're never gonna get to the point where everybody takes these things seriously because if I'm the 11th man in a rotation, why should I care about who makes the All-Star Game? I'm gonna enjoy my seven days off and go on a little vacation. I'm gonna vote for my friends because it's funny and that's gonna be it. Because I don't think these individual votes for Chet getting four or George Nyang getting five really swung the pendulum when it came to who's gonna start and who's not. One thing I think that the people got right over in the NBA is now allowing this to be like the school ground, pick them up. Games where they just point and LeBron says I want Zion and then Gianna says he want this person. I think that's gonna be fun. It should add an extra element. But I could also see it like crashing and burning as well. So I guess we're gonna have to wait and see. I think the real conversation starts once we figure out who the coaches pick because there are so many talented players out there that like Pascal Siakam, Julius Randall, Demarda Rosen, and James Harden. There's a world where like three out of four of those players don't make it. There's a world where none of those players make it. So there's definitely gonna be some stuff to be mad about but this when it comes to the starters ain't it just yet.