And now The Reserves, featuring no less than 7 first timers.

You know what I like about voting the All Star Selections? It's an exercise in democracy the way it's become in the modern age - a popularity contest. Except this time it's out in the open, unlike when we're voting for our leaders, where we pretend we're doing the right thing.

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AI has taken me on a roller coaster ride throughout his career. When he won MVP, he was my idol. I was amazed at the idea of a 6'2 guard lording it over a league of 7" behemoths. Here was the perfect anti-hero of the hiphop generation. A cornrow sporting, tattooed example of the youth rising up from nowhere to hold up the highest individual honor of all of basketball. A kid from the streets doing it right. What's a more romantic scenario than that?

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Best first.

That's Steve Nash going for a spectacular 21 point 20 assist game against the 76ers, taking what is considered to be a relatively undermanned Phoenix Suns to an impressive 7-1 record.

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Just thought I'd post this picture to help it sink in:

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