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You can set your watch to it: Every year, a number of excellent NBA players with legitimate cases for making the All-Star Game end up spending that mid-February weekend at home. (Or, more likely, Turks and Caicos or wherever.)
It’s an unavoidable inevitability when each conference gets only 12 spots and there are way more than 24 very good players. (Don’t believe me? Go make a top-25 list and post it on the internet. The disagreements will find you!) If we’re being honest, though, most sports fans wouldn’t have it any other way.