Merry Christmas to all who celebrate the occasion and happiness to all on this day. The NBA has a big slate of games but, as is typical, the Portland Trail Blazers aren\u2019t on the Christmas Day schedule this year. They play on Friday night versus the Los Angeles Clippers. You can bet Blazer\u2019s Edge will be humming right along with previews, reviews, and all of that tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Until then, though, we have our own slate of Christmas questions to keep discussion going throughout the day for those of you impassioned with the Blazers (or avoiding your obligatory family gatherings for whatever reason). Enjoy thinking about these topics with fellow Blazers fans!<\/p>\n
Our final question of the day is interesting, maybe harsh. Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija is having a heck of a season, scoring 25.5 points per game with 7.1 rebounds and 6.6 assists. Considering the NBA is moving to a round-robin format for the All-Star game with the United States taking on international players, it seems pretty certain that Avdija will be named one of the twelve best non-U.S. players in the league and thus receive his first All-Star nomination. But here\u2019s the question. If voting were classic, with an Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference setup and 12 players per team, would Avdija still make the All-Star game this year? If so, who would he edge out? If not, who would go in ahead of him?<\/p>\n
Share your thoughts in the comments section, and be sure to scroll back through our other questions from the day! Hope your holiday was great! From the staff of Blazer\u2019s Edge, thanks for being here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas to all who celebrate the occasion and happiness to all on this day. The NBA has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,89844,189749,85],"class_list":["post-371749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","tag-portland-trail-blazers-discussion","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}