Mark Cuban, known for his outspoken antics, is at it once again. Friday night, Mark Cuban ripped apart the element of fan voting to select the NBA’s All Star starters.
The starters have been announced and the leading vote getter with 1,513,324 votes was Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry.
Cuban came out saying, “But when the number of voters isn’t enough to even get anybody to notice … That means basically .01 percent of NBA fans cared enough to vote, and that’s saying every fan voted just once. Probably, if you include global, that means .00001 percent of fans thought enough to vote. That just shows nobody cares.”
I’m glad Mark Cuban just figured this out. No one has cared for the NBA All Star game or any professional All Star Game for the past 10 years, even before fan voting. The dunk contest is a joke, the 3-point shootout is just as entertaining as high school basketball, and no one wants to watch 50-year old Karl Malone take half court jumpers.
The most entertaining part of the All Star Game for the past two years has been watching Secretary of Education Arne Duncan drop some basketball knowledge on other celebrities.
Mr. Cuban, everyone knows that the fan voting is flawed. Remember Yao Ming being voted as an All Star starter in 2010-2011 even though he only played 5 games?
The All Star voting process will never be perfect and someone will always be snubbed, but overall the All Star game is about what the fans want not what Mark Cuban wants.
So Mark, stop trying to preach to the NBA and keep to what you know best, Shark Tank.
