Well, All-NBA teams were named. And, not surprisingly, the 1st team was full of potential MVP candidates: Kobe, Paul, Garnett, Lebron, and Howard. 2nd team was pretty good, too: Nash, Deron, Dirk, Amare, and Duncan.

The third team, however, made me a bit puzzled: Mcgrady (who played through the whole 22-game win streak, OK), Paul Peirce (best team in the league, OK), and Boozer, Ginobili (?), and Yao (??). Boozer, well, I guess you could make a case for him. He played really good this year, although it could be argued that what Antawn Jamison or David West did for their teams was better and more important, considering one helped to carry his injury-depleted team, and the other helped to get his team the 2nd best record in the West. And Yao, he was a part of that 22 game win streak…although Yao couldn’t even qualify for being a scoring leader.

And Manu Ginobili? Are you kidding me? That “6th man”? I won’t even get into the fact that he shouldn’t be a 6th man. But naming him to the third team? That’s ridiculous…especially considering the SECOND BEST team in the league, Detroit, didn’t get one player on any of the teams. And on that Detroit team, Chauncey Billups, the best player on the team; the leader on the team; the guy who makes the Pistons run, and makes all those clutch shots that got them to win quite a lot of those 59 wins - was barely considered. Hell, three players (all on the same team) were chosen ahead of Chauncey - Carmelo Anthony, Allen Iverson, and Marcus Camby. Why? Was it stats? Lack of media coverage? Or just pure ignorance? I don’t know, and I don’t really care…but it’s still pretty messed up. Chauncey is a better player, and more important to his team, than Manu Ginobili.

Oh well, I guess these All-NBA teams aren’t much to get riled up about, anyways. After all, most of these awards are pretty much meaningless.