DeAndre Jordan, left, has never played in an NBA All-Star game/Photo courtesy of Clippers.com

Fan voting for the 2015 All-Star game ended Monday. The results for the starters will be announced Thursday night on TNT, but don’t expect DeAndre Jordan to be among them because at last look he was way down the list of frontcourt players.

He doesn’t seem to mind.

“When I was a little younger, I would think about (not making it), but now I don’t think about it as much,” said Jordan, 26. “Blake sends me pictures and FaceTimes me when he’s there, so it’s kind of like I’m there.”
Jordan had reporters laughing. But he seemed serious when he intimated it’s just not that big of a deal. Rather, he’s focused on team stuff.
“I don’t care,” he said. “We know what our ultimate goal is at the end of the season. I’m happy for my teammates if they make it. Really, it’s like we are all there. So I really don’t get too involved in it.”
Jordan is averaging 10.0 points this season and has a career scoring average of just 7.6, so the idea that he doesn’t score a lot does not help his cause. It also doesn’t help that he is a terrible free-throw shooter. He’s shooting just 39.9 percent this season with a career percentage of just 42.2.
Yes, he has a terrific league-leading field-goal percentage of 72.1 percent this season, but his range is about three feet, so he should be shooting inordinately high from the field.

Teammate Blake Griffin was asked after Monday’s victory over Boston if he believes Jordan doesn’t get the league-wide respect he deserves. He took a shot at reporters.

“Maybe the media, I mean, people that don’t really understand the game and appreciate what a guy does beyond the box score,” Griffin said. “But other teams know, we know what he does and what he’s capable of; he’s a game-changer.”