{"id":62319,"date":"2025-05-28T20:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/62319\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:43:15","slug":"i-disagree-with-the-media-having-so-much-influence-on-you-lou-williams-says-the-all-nba-selection-process-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/62319\/","title":{"rendered":"“I disagree with the media having so much influence on you” – Lou Williams says the All-NBA selection process is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memphis Grizzlies big man Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/a> missed out on a big payday after he was not named to one of the three All-NBA teams this season.<\/p>\n

Jackson would have been in line to receive a supermax deal if he made one of the teams. However, he received only one second-team vote and 52 third-team votes to finish with the second-highest total not to make the team.<\/p>\n

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Because of that, three-time Sixth Man of the Year winner Lou Williams<\/a> said that the league needs to make changes to its rule that the supermax deal is dependent on an All-NBA team selection. One hundred media members determine such honors, which is not reflective of a player’s true value since the vote is subjective.<\/p>\n

“I disagree with the media having so much influence on you like they can cost you $200 million,” said Williams on the recent episode of “Run it Back on FDTV.”<\/p>\n

Even a coach’s vote would be biased<\/p>\n

Had Jackson been voted to one of the three All-NBA squads, he would have been eligible to receive a five-year contract extension worth roughly $345 million. But because the media thinks he wasn’t among the 15 best players in the league this season, JJJ will have to settle for a four-year deal worth around $146 million or a massive difference of $200 million, as Lou Will noted.<\/p>\n

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“Sweet Lou” added that fixing this will be tricky because even if the league uses fan votes to determine the All-NBA teams, there can still be bias. Lou’s co-hosts Chandler Parsons and Michelle Beadle, opined that perhaps having coaches do the selection might be better. However, Williams explained that even coaches can be prejudiced.<\/p>\n

“If I’m a coach, and I’m looking to be petty, and I’m looking at a possible playoff matchup, I’m gonna piss this guy off. I’m gonna ring his bell, and I’m gonna cost him some cheese. Or if I have the opportunity to get a guy, and I want him to be more affordable for my team, and I can possibly get him in the offseason, I can rig that up as well\u2026There’s no easy way to get out of it,” added “The Underground GOAT.”<\/p>\n

Related: “I see it happen with Larry Bird more often than any player” – Danny Ainge hails Larry Bird as the most unstoppable scorer of his era<\/a><\/p>\n

No easy fix here<\/p>\n

Jackson had an impressive season for the Grizzlies, averaging 22.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.5 blocks, and 1.2 steals per game while missing just 8 regular-season games. The 25-year-old earned his second All-Star selection and was named to the All-Defensive second team this season.<\/p>\n

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However, the media panel voting for the awards didn’t think he deserved a spot on one of the three teams, and that significantly altered JJJ’s earning power.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day, everybody is affected by everything in this business. Even if you get the fans to do it, there’s gonnabe a problem. If you get the coaches to do it, there’s a problem. You get the players, media, and so on and so forth; there’s gonna be caveats no matter which way you go,” continued Lou.<\/p>\n

JJJ is slated to make $23.4 million in the final year of his first contract extension, which he signed in 2021. That deal was worth $104 million for four years. It’s crazy that one DPOY award, two All-Star game appearances, and three All-NBA team nods later, Jackson missed out on the supermax deal.<\/p>\n

Related: “You’re an All-Star, bruh” – Kendrick Perkins rips Jaren Jackson Jr. for failing to show up in historic playoff loss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies big man Jaren Jackson Jr. missed out on a big payday after he was not named…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,2943,294,6684,15286,4851,293,177,4070,6,15285],"class_list":{"0":"post-62319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chandler-parsons","10":"tag-grizzlies","11":"tag-jaren-jackson","12":"tag-lou-will","13":"tag-lou-williams","14":"tag-memphis","15":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","16":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-sweet-lou"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114587409149146029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}