Published 1/9/2009
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The Washington Wizards (7-27) are 20 games below .500 for the first time since Eddie Jordan's first season in Washington in 2003-04 -- when the team suffered because of injuries to Gilbert Arenas and Larry Hughes and finished 25-57. So the chances of Caron Butler or Antawn Jamison making the NBA all-star team are only slightly better than the team's non-existent playoff chances. I'd be shocked if we made the all-star team. Me, too. (Photo by Ned Dishman/Getty Images) The fourth returns for all-star balloting were released yesterday and Boston's Kevin Garnett is barely holding off New Jersey Nets forward Yi Jianlian for the starting Eastern Conference forward spot. With 11 days left to cast ballots, Garnett has 1,375,814 votes -- just 159,466 votes ahead of Jianlian, who wouldn't be in the race if he didn't have the support of a country with 1.3 billion people. Jianlian getting voted into
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