No doubt the refs favour star players, that stern's gimmick, once you start making calls based on the name on the back of the jersey, and not the actual game, you have already arrived into a form of match fixing
Look at the olympics, with a team full of all stars the USA struggles to win, whilst the other countries are mainly composed of nba role players or even euro guys, without the star calls suddenly the gap between wade and a guy like navarro isn't that great. If the nba is to be believed USA should have won the medal game by 50+