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Baron Davis blames Russian hackers for Westbrook not being All-Star starter

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Averaging a triple-double through the halfway point of the 2016-17 regular season wasn't enough to get Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder a spot in the starting lineup on the Western Conference All-Star team this year.

Baron Davis - a former two-time All-Star in his own right - was seemingly made aware of this fact early Sunday morning, and, suffice it to say, he wasn't very thrilled to see such an egregious snub.

As if the All-Star voting process was on par with the recent U.S. election, Davis went ahead and blamed Russian hackers for Westbrook being left out of the lineup.

Davis' request to fix the voting process may fall on deaf ears, as it literally just underwent an extreme makeover this season to now include both the league's players and select members of the media, who together comprised 50 percent of the overall vote.

Despite receiving the most support from those two groups as the West's No. 1 backcourt vote-getter, Westbrook only ranked third overall with the fans behind Stephen Curry and James Harden. Breaking the tie between Westbrook and The Chef - who finished third with both players and the media - for the second backcourt spot was Curry winning the fan vote, thus leaving Westbrook out in the cold waiting to be named a reserve.

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