Pau Gasol replaces Jimmy Butler for All-Star Game

[BudweiserCeltic]

Jimmy Butler out for 3-4 weeks, Pau Gasol takes his place for the All-Star game.

Queue-in hysteria from Cleveland fans and lack of Love.

Marc J. Spears @SpearsNBAYahoo
Bulls forward Pau Gasol will replace his injured teammate Jimmy Butler (knee) on the East team in the NBA All-Star Game.

[slamtheking]

Jimmy Butler out for 3-4 weeks, Pau Gasol takes his place for the All-Star game.

Queue-in hysteria from Cleveland fans and lack of Love.

I'd take Pau over Love this year too.  Not sure too many people outside of Cleveland would be upset about that.

[BudweiserCeltic]

Jimmy Butler out for 3-4 weeks, Pau Gasol takes his place for the All-Star game.

Queue-in hysteria from Cleveland fans and lack of Love.

I'd take Pau over Love this year too.  Not sure too many people outside of Cleveland would be upset about that.

Yes, but as you know, we'll get an article in ESPN about the dismay of it...

[Donoghus]

Jimmy Butler out for 3-4 weeks, Pau Gasol takes his place for the All-Star game.

Queue-in hysteria from Cleveland fans and lack of Love.

I'd take Pau over Love this year too.  Not sure too many people outside of Cleveland would be upset about that.

Yes, but as you know, we'll get an article in ESPN about the dismay of it...

Cue the Windhorst signal!

[Lucky17]

Jimmy Butler out for 3-4 weeks, Pau Gasol takes his place for the All-Star game.

Queue-in hysteria from Cleveland fans and lack of Love.

I'd take Pau over Love this year too.  Not sure too many people outside of Cleveland would be upset about that.

Yes, but as you know, we'll get an article in ESPN about the dismay of it...

Cue the Windhorst signal!

Fatman?

[mgent]

That's the right call.

[Big333223]

I'm ok if Pau being Butler's teammate was basically a tie-breaker for "Should we send Pau or Love to the game?" Also, I'm ok with Pau making the game. He's terrific and spend most of his career underrated.

[manl_lui]

if a team has two players being voted to an all-star team, and one makes it. If that player gets injured, would it be fair that only a player in the same team who qualified for nba-all-star ballot should replace him?

[Mr Green]

Hopefully replacing a guard with a big means some more playing time for IT4.

[BudweiserCeltic]

That's the right call.

At first instance one would think to replace a guard with a guard, so Kemba Walker, Reggie Jackson, and Khris Middleton in play.

But one looks a the roster, and it's severely lacking in size. Not only is Gasol deserving in that context, but bonus for replacing a player from his own team.

So yeah, right call.