You can add DeMarcus Cousins to the growing and vocal list of folks around the league who believe fan voting for the All-Star game should be eliminated. The 25-year-old Kings center was a first-time All-Star in 2015 and will likely make a return trip to next month’s All-Star game in Toronto when the reserves are announced this Thursday on TNT. He solidified his case Monday after dropping a career-high 56 points in a double-overtime loss to the Hornets just hours after being named Western Conference Player of the Week.
But Boogie believes the current system is flawed in terms of both how it selects frontcourt players and how much stock it puts on fan-voting, the latter of which is something he’d eliminate altogether if he had his way. Via Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports:
“It’s disrespectful to big men,” Cousins told Yahoo Sports. “It’s not really fair. But that’s how it is.”
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“There definitely wouldn’t be fan voting,” Cousins told Yahoo. “You can’t base it off of who is on TNT and ESPN every night. Of course, it’s going to be most winning teams’ [players], the most popular players [selected]. The other guys that play for the Milwaukee Bucks, and in our case the Sacramento Kings, who are playing just as good basketball, will never be seen. I don’t think it’s fair.”
