Pachulia on All-Star voting: ‘Call it Zaza rules’

The NBA changed the format for All-Star voting this year. Instead of leaving it all up to the fans, votes from players and select media members were also counted.

This is how things would've ended up if the format wasn't changed.

The Warriors' Zaza Pachulia would've been named a starter. His fans really love voting for him (last year he beat out Draymond Green and was so close to being a starter). But, after counting the player and media votes, Pachulia was bumped out, and the West starters wound up being Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis, James Harden and Steph Curry.

While the new system isn't perfect - where's Russell Westbrook? - it did successfully knock off Pachulia. Earlier this month, Green said his teammate should be mad the format changed. Pachulia doesn't seem too bothered, though.

He made light of it on SportsCenter's Instagram Story.

Pachulia says:

"First of all, I'm gonna take the credit and we gonna take the credit as Georgians that we changed the rules, so you guys can call it Zaza rules."