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Hey Now, *He’s* An All Star????????

*groans very loudly* Yes, it’s that time of the year. The time where we all gripe and complain about All Star voting. If you’ve been sleeping peacefully under a rock since yesterday evening, you may have missed that Andrew Wiggins was selected as an All Star starter yesterday. Yes, *that* Andrew Wiggins. The one we just had to bully into getting vaccinated. For the first time in his career, he is an All Star starter. And for the billionth time in Wardell Curry’s career, he has an All Star teammate. (I’m sorry, my agenda is gonna agend, y’all.) The reaction to Wiggins’ selection was…what you’d reasonably expect from NBA Twitter. “Over CP3? Booker? KAT?” apparently so. Not to take away from Wiggins’ accomplishments this season, but every year there seems to be that one head-scratching selection that makes fans, media, and players alike say one thing: “we need to change the All Star Voting process.” It’s an exhibition game so it shouldn’t matter much right? Ehhhhh. Not really. Often times