Interested in the NBA all-star game? Go to the latter (at that link) and you’ll see a panel for AllStarBallot.NBA.com. Go there and you’ll find Step 1:
Sign in or create an account as an NBA.com All-Access member.
Click the second link and you’ll find a pop-over form with lots of personal stuff to type in to boxes, followed by this:
By clicking the Sign Me Up to Vote button, (1) you acknowledge that we may communicate with you at the email address you have supplied regarding your membership benefits and that we reserve the right to change membership terms, benefits and access at our sole discretion and (2) you accept and agree to our Terms of Useand our updated Privacy Policy..
Yo, NBA. Let me talk a little trash here.
First, creating an account is fine, even if it’s very 1995.
Second, don’t pre-check something to make opt-out look like opt-in. That move doesn’t sell anything to my defense.
Third, you’re not scoring shit with that small print. Yeah, I know it’s the usual stuff. I don’t care. It gives me nothing but junk mail and exposure to stuff I don’t want, including stuff I don’t even know I don’t want until it happens and I may not even be able to tell it happened because you let it happen. Enough of that crap.
You want to crowd-source all-star voting by fans? Let them come up with their own system. This one is as old-fashioned and broken as the no-dunk rule.
