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#170: Development in the modern game & All-Star minutes

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Is Kareem a Good All-Star?

Each season kind of exists in isolation right and so if you're not performing that season to the degree that other people are it feels a little wrong that somebody's not gonna be an all-star. The spirit of the thing doesn't map to like let's look at who's played 200 more minutes in the middle of January when the all-star game is happening in February. I do think it's still about the player you see in front of you I'm not saying anything different or legacy vote in players like Kareem in 1988 1989 was probably just like legacy voting right but I think if you see a player if Joel Embiid misses a ton of time and then he starts playing and

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