Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade is not an All-Star caliber player anymore. That much is obvious. However, in what he says is his final year in the NBA, he is currently second among Eastern Conference guards in All-Star voting, with only Boston Celtics floor general Kyrie Irving ahead of him.

In spite of the fact that Wade is certainly not having an All-Star season, Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra says that all of the fans voting for Wade has been well-earned on the three-time champion's part:

That's one way to look at it, although Wade making the All-Star team this year would be kind of ridiculous.

In 27 games off the bench, Wade is averaging 14.1 points, 3.9 assists and 3.6 rebounds over 25.5 minutes a night while shooting 41.2 percent from the floor, 32.7 percent from three-point range and 70.3 percent from the free-throw line.

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Yes, he has had an amazing career and will be in the Hall of Fame one day but it's hard to imagine a worse All-Star selection in the history of the league, and that's taking into consideration the fact that Jamaal Magloire once made the All-Star team.

Overall, Wade has been to the All-Star Game 12 times, with all of those appearances coming consecutively between the 2004-05 and 2015-16 campaigns.

Wade has spent all but one-and-a-half of his 15 NBA seasons in South Beach, making brief stops in Chicago and Cleveland before returning to the Heat in a trade with the Cavaliers last February.

The 36-year-old owns career numbers of 22.3 points, 5.5 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game.