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SALT LAKE CITY — On Thursday night, Utah Jazz general manager Dennis Lindsey received a text message from Rudy Gobert. It was a question: “What are we going to do about this?”

The “this” was Gobert’s All-Star snub. And Lindsey and the Jazz aren’t planning on taking it lying down. They know they can’t change Thursday’s results, but maybe they can help Gobert and players like him make the game in the future.

On Friday, Lindsey said on the Jazz’s flagship radio station, 1280 The Zone, that the organization was preparing to bring a recommendation to the NBA to change how All-Stars are selected.

Currently, the NBA All-Star reserves are voted on by league coaches — that would be completely scrapped under the Jazz's recommendation.

Here is the proposal that Lindsey laid out:

Forming an All-Star selection committee featuring former players, former coaches, former management, former scouts, former media, and unattached analytic personnel. The idea is to remove potential conflicts of interest in voting.

Lindsey said he wanted the selection process to be an ongoing process, with updates to committee members about which players are performing well.

Lindsey imagines the committee being much like how the NCAA does it with their selection process for tournaments. He also wants the votes to be made public. “I think you could monetize it, I think it would be compelling TV,” Lindsey said.

The criteria to be an All-Star would be a combination of per game stats, advanced stats, win-loss records, player decorum, as well as player behavior.

Before Friday’s Utah-Atlanta game, Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce, who only voted for the Eastern Conference All-Stars, discussed the voting process for coaches.

“There’s many different ways you can look at it, criteria, and you want to reward players on winning teams and reward players, I think, for this season and I think that’s key,” Pierce said. “And I know Rudy, there’s a lot of stuff going on about Gobert — third-ranked defense, 15 and 13, leading shot blocker, leading rim protector — those guys aren’t rewarded. … It’s a snub, in my opinion, that Rudy doesn’t make it.”

It’s that type of snub that Lindsey and the Jazz are hoping to avoid in the future. And it also shows how strongly the organization will stand up for their players. Gobert was emotional about not making the All-Star team, even getting choked up during his media availability at Friday’s shootaround.

“With Rudy, that is who he is,” Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. “He is a passionate human being. I love that about him. ... You see it in his competitiveness. That passion is what makes him who he is.”

That passion is also why the Jazz are so quick to defend him. They believe that he’s not just a top 12 player in the West, but a top 10 player in the entire league. And Lindsey had a few questions for the coaches that didn’t vote for the Utah center.

“Do you realize he leads the league in win shares going into All-Star break?” Lindsey posed to the coaches on the radio. “When you talk about toughness, defense, loyalty, unselfishness, aren’t you talking about our guy? … Do you realize he’s been the best defender on the planet four years running? … Do you realize he’s never complained or leveraged his way out of Salt Lake City? … Do you realize his impact on winning?”

The coaches already answered with their votes — so the Jazz are asking for change.