How Was Reggie Miller Not an All-Star in 1994?
Apr 10, 2017 14:10:42 GMT -6
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Post by eric on Apr 10, 2017 14:10:42 GMT -6
The year is 1994.
Clinton is President.
Nancy Kerrigan is assaulted at the behest of Tonya Harding.
Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty.
Kurt Cobain is alive.
Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas have been the starting Eastern All-Star guards for six years running, but Jordan rides the bus and Isiah is terrible, failing to break 40% from the field for a tanking Pistons squad. The field is wide open...
...so How Was Reggie Miller Not an All-Star in 1994?
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The fans vote as follows:
To the two starters, the coaches add Mark Price, Mookie Blaylock, and John Starks.
Do you see Reggie Miller's name?
I don't.
Fact: he leads all Eastern guards with 21.3 points per game at the break.
Fact: he is the only Eastern guard to break twenty.
Fact: he shoots 50% from the field, 40% from three, and 92% from the line.
Fact: the class of the East are New York, Chicago, Orlando, and Atlanta
Fact: but all are already represented: Ewing, Pippen, Shaq, and 'Nique respectively
Fact: his team's record is a modest 23-23, but Anderson's Nets are 22-24 and Price's Cavs are 24-23.
And he's not even in the top ten of fan voting, and he's not even in the top three of coach's replacements.
.
It is April 1994.
Isiah Thomas tears his Achilles and will never play basketball again.
B.J. Armstrong, Mark Price, Mookie Blaylock, and John Starks will play another combined 26 years in the NBA with 0 All-Star appearances between them.
Reggie Miller begins the playoffs that will make him a national star, culminating in a tête-à-tête with Spike Lee at The Mecca of Basketball Madison Square Garden (pre name change).
Kurt Cobain is dead.
I hope it was worth it, All-Star voters.
Clinton is President.
Nancy Kerrigan is assaulted at the behest of Tonya Harding.
Lorena Bobbitt is found not guilty.
Kurt Cobain is alive.
Michael Jordan and Isiah Thomas have been the starting Eastern All-Star guards for six years running, but Jordan rides the bus and Isiah is terrible, failing to break 40% from the field for a tanking Pistons squad. The field is wide open...
...so How Was Reggie Miller Not an All-Star in 1994?
.
The fans vote as follows:
Guard
1. B.J. Armstrong 529,065
2. Kenny Anderson 493,690
3. Mark Price 423,179
4. Stacey Augmon 401,703
5. Mookie Blaylock 390,433
6. Nick Anderson 361,200
7. Isiah Thomas 358,736
8. Joe Dumars 340,581
9. Jeff Hornacek 327,965
10. Derek Harper 313,679To the two starters, the coaches add Mark Price, Mookie Blaylock, and John Starks.
Do you see Reggie Miller's name?
I don't.
Fact: he leads all Eastern guards with 21.3 points per game at the break.
Fact: he is the only Eastern guard to break twenty.
Fact: he shoots 50% from the field, 40% from three, and 92% from the line.
Fact: the class of the East are New York, Chicago, Orlando, and Atlanta
Fact: but all are already represented: Ewing, Pippen, Shaq, and 'Nique respectively
Fact: his team's record is a modest 23-23, but Anderson's Nets are 22-24 and Price's Cavs are 24-23.
And he's not even in the top ten of fan voting, and he's not even in the top three of coach's replacements.
.
It is April 1994.
Isiah Thomas tears his Achilles and will never play basketball again.
B.J. Armstrong, Mark Price, Mookie Blaylock, and John Starks will play another combined 26 years in the NBA with 0 All-Star appearances between them.
Reggie Miller begins the playoffs that will make him a national star, culminating in a tête-à-tête with Spike Lee at The Mecca of Basketball Madison Square Garden (pre name change).
Kurt Cobain is dead.
I hope it was worth it, All-Star voters.
