"IF" Gordon Hayward comes back around end of December as scheduled and continues his current statistical run can he STILL make the ASG?
Please forgive me if this is posted somewhere else...
Would LOVE to see him get in......
When is the cutoff for voting? Would he have missed too many games?
Last year it went:
Thu 1/24 Starters announced (selected by fans, media, players)
Thu 1/31 Reserves announced (selected by coaches)
Thu 2/13 Finals games played before All-Star weekend
Sun 2/17 All-Star game
So if if this year follows a similar format, it will probably be:
Thu 1/23 Starters announced
Thu 1/30 Reserves announced
Thu 2/12 Final games played before All-Star weekend
Sun 2/16 All-Star game
If Hayward comes back on Christmas and plays every game, I count he'll have played 27 (out of 46) games before the coaches vote, and up to 35 games before the actual All-Star break (to be selected as an injury replacement by the Commish, but I believe he usually just selects the next guy with the most coaches votes).
Some notable guys selected as reserves missing significant number of games:
2015 - Durant, 21 of 46 games
2005 - Ray Allen, 21 of 46 games
2002 - Chris Webber 20 of 43 games
I'm sure there's others, but this is just what I remember.