While we’re waiting… Players You Love To Hate, All-Star Statements, Anderson’s Long Term Health and a Chart

While We’re Waiting serves as the early morning gathering of WFNY-esque information for your viewing pleasure. Have something you think we should see? Send it to our tips email at tips@waitingfornextyear.com. Why don’t more NBA coaches vote for role plays for All-Star reserves?  - “The All-Star game is an exhibition game. It doesn’t count. It’s not a competition. It’s show business. I get that. But it’s also a 48-minute infomercial on the NBA. On basketball. On how to play the game. The right way. At least that’s what it should also be. But it’s not. The NBA All-Star game is mostly just treated for what it is: An all-expenses paid weekend of glamour, preening and ego-stroking for 24 players and their posses. What I don’t get is all the NBA coaches, who constantly search for a hard-working, unselfish, team-first, winning player — and then moan about it when they can’t find or don’t have one — totally ignoring the im...