Roy Hibbert Selected As Eastern Conference All-Star Reserve
by Tom Lewis on Feb 9, 2012 7:28 PM EST
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Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert was officially named as a reserve center on the Eastern Conference team for the NBA All-Star game on February 26th in Orlando.
Huge congratulations to the big fella who literally earned this honor after putting in tons of hard work since being drafted as a project center with questionable upside. What we've learned is that Hibbert never stops learning and has been able to improve his game each season. Forget the individual numbers, Hibbert has been instrumental in helping the Pacers jump out to a 17-8 start and that is why he will bask in the glow of All-Star weekend, representing the Pacers and the Eastern Conference.
Hib Hib...HOO-ROY!!!
Here is the full group of All-Star reserves for both conferences:
EAST: Joe Johnson G, Deron Williams G, Paul Pierce F, Andre Iguodala F, Chris Bosh F, Luol Deng F, Roy Hibbert F
WEST: Kevin Love F, LaMarcus Aldridge F, Russell Westbrook G, Dirk Nowitzki F, Tony Parker G, Steve Nash G, Marc Gasol C
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Hard work beats out talent
I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's impossible to put down.// I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, Then it hit me// A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
Way to go Big Roy!
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Truly inspirational
hope his fiancee likes Orlando lol
not too much though
don’t want toive her, nor a Howard-less Magic team any ideas!
Much love, big fella
nice to see the hard work pay off for a guy who comes off as genuinely nice.
Print It.
Great to see that PG...
Great to see that PG has a travel buddy down to Orlando!
way to go Roy
Also, way to go Bird. Picking hard working, good character guys is paying off. Looks like Pacers did get the better of the JO trade.
A bit of trivia: Roy is one of four all stars from the 2008 draft class. Pretty impressive for that class, ties them with the famous class of 2003 this year. For those that want to argue that this is just a sign of players that age entering their prime, the 1996 draft has more all starts this year (Kobe, Nash, Parker) than the 2007 class (Durant, and Marc Gasol)
correction
whoops, Parker was drafted in 2001. What was I thinking?
Still, it’s interesting that the glorified class of 2007 managed the same number of all-stars as the guys who were drafted when Kevin Durant was 7 years old.
hibbs
Shows us the definition of practice…..practice?!??!?
by bpfalvey on Feb 10, 2012 4:55 AM EST via iPhone app reply actions
On a side note...
Luol Deng over Brandon Jennings, Danny Granger, Kyrie Irving and Jrue Holiday? Why? If we’re talking about what a guy means to his team, all of those guys are MUCH more important than Deng, who’s been playing injured and as a result has been shooting pretty poorly and, in my opinion, has looked slower on defense. If he wasn’t such an a$$hole, I’d feel bad for Brandon Jennings, who up until this past week has looked like an MVP candidate. Also, while I think Deron Williams is one of the 5 or 6 best players in the conference, he certainly hasn’t shown it. So if we’re going by stats, I’d put Holiday, Irving or Jennings in over him too (though Granger doesn’t have much of a statistical leg to stand on).
As for the West, Kyle Lowry, Paul Millsap and Ricky Rubio snubbed for Dirk? That HAS to be based on sheer respect, rather than any tangible evidence that he’s an All-Star. Hell, I’d put Tim Duncan in there instead of Dirk, simply because he has a little less to work with. Even though he’s putting up career low numbers, pretty much across the board, the drop off has been more dramatic for Nowitzki.
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"If we’re talking about what a guy means to his team"
This isn’t about MVPs – that’s totally different.
by FortWayneKarl on Feb 10, 2012 10:09 AM EST up reply actions
I'm not sure how
Coaches vote on the reserves, right? So if I’m a coach I’m going to try to be objective and vote for the guys who mean the most for their teams, who weren’t voted in by fans. I’d have the inside track on who’s toughest to guard, who you have to gameplan the most for, etc. I find it hard to believe they actually believe Deng and Nowtizki are more deserving than some of the guys I mentioned. At least with Nowtizki it’s almost obvious he’s coming in on past accolades. When his career’s over people are going to look at his long, illustrious list of accomplishments and notice that in 2011-12 he was an All-Star…even though he is NOT having an All-Star season. Seems wrong.
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