Earlier, the NBA officially announced the list of East-West starters for this year's Cleveland All-Star Weekend, and the East's Alphabet Brother, Durant, Embiid, DeRozan, and Trae Young have all been selected as All-Stars, which is not controversial, but there are two new faces in the West, compared to Morant, who averaged career-best 25.8 points, 5.9 rebounds and 6.9 assists this season, Wiggins, who averaged only 18.1 points per game, can become a starter, which is indeed questioned by the outside world.
In fact, there are many players in the West who can replace Wiggins' starting position, just take Doncic, Thick Eyebrows, and even the same team's dream-chasing Green, in fact, they are more qualified than Wiggins, but in the total number of votes, Wiggins does occupy a great advantage with 3452586, even higher than the total number of votes of Towns, Gobert, and Ayton, and everyone can only accept the reality that Wiggins has become an All-Star starter. Because the All-Star thing, in fact, does not look at the player's personal ability and statistics, as long as you are popular, you have the opportunity to be selected to start, when the original 16 years of All-Star voting, then the Lone Ranger center Pachulia was almost selected for the All-Star starting lineup, and he was just a blue-collar interior line that averaged less than 10 points per game.
And Wiggins was elected as the starter, and what is even more worth learning is the absurd plot of Yao Ming squeezing O'Neill to become the starting center of the West. In the 02-03 season, Yao Ming, who had just entered the NBA as a yuanlang, This season is only a decent 13.5 points and 8.2 rebounds, and O'Neal that season is in the sky, in the Purple and Gold Army playing time can average 27.5 points 11.1 rebounds per game of the big double-double, the result of chinese fans hard to rely on the huge fan base, Yao Ming to the starting position, when Yao Ming with the total number of votes 1286324 the first place in the West Center, and O'Neal's total number of votes is only 1049081, the difference Yao Ming is more than 200,000 votes, under the strength of the country, the NBA is really in the All-Star game, let O'Neal to Yao Ming in the rookie season as a substitute.
With Yao Ming's plot of "counterattacking" O'Neal, it is not a strange thing that Wiggins is among the all-star starters this time. Not long ago, there was a Thai member bambam in the South Korean boy band GOT7, who specifically canvassed for Wiggins on Twitter, and as a result, the all-star vote about Wiggins directly rushed to the first place in the Thai Twitter hot search, when as many as 521,000 tweets were canvassing for it, and the wave of big moves released really made other players blush, and Wiggins was able to rank among the all-star starting positions, and really had to thank this Korean boy band.
So the All-Star thing, the popularity of the players is very important, but in order to avoid the dilemma of Yao Ming squeezing out O'Neal and Pachulia almost becoming the starting center before, the league has also begun to modify the proportion of all-star voting in recent years, and the votes of the east and west starter lists are mainly divided into three parts, first of all, the fan vote, this proportion comes to 50%, followed by the player vote, the proportion comes to 25%, and then the media vote occupies 25%, and finally according to the score of the comprehensive number of votes, to judge whether a player can be on the starting list.
But this time Wiggins did not have much advantage in player and media voting, only 46 votes and 4 votes respectively, if it were not for the fan votes that helped a lot, he may not be able to squeeze out Doncic, Dream Green, usher in the first All-Star starting position of his career.