All-Star Voting - T-Mac???

First of all, I wanted to mention a while ago how silly I thought it was that they started All-Star voting quite early in the season. It seemed like it was the second or third week of the season and they started talking about All-Star voting. Are you serious? How can you vote this early? I understand fans want to vote for who they want to see. This probably explains why Tracy McGrady has enough votes to be a starter for the All-Star game. I guess I'm more of a purist/realist because I feel it should be based solely on performance and not name factor. This is truly a name thing because Tracy has played 0 games this year (well as of now 1 game - which he played 7 mins). However, the recent vote totals was before he played his first game. I kind of get annoyed with these things because I think people who have earned and played at an All-Star level should be starting. For instance, Steve Nash is behind Tracy in votes, and he should be ahead. This has always been true throughout the years where people seem to vote more on name than what they are currently doing in the NBA season.

Here are my starting five picks:

West: Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Carmelo Anthony, Dirk Nowitzki, Andrew Bynum
(I was torn between Dirk and Pau Gasol, but Dirk has been killing it too and played longer

East: Dwayne Wade, Lebron James, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Rajan Rondo (he has been playing that well!)