2024 NBA All-Star Weekend Events Discussion

[Kblaze8855]

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[Kblaze8855]

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[Kblaze8855]

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[Real Men Wear Green]

Is JB the first allstar since Dwight Howard to do the dunk contest?

[Kblaze8855]

Some have done it we just have no memory of it. Damian Lillard was in it one year I know. And I think Donovan Mitchell won it. John Wall might’ve won one as well. I have no memory of any dunk any of them did though.

[FultzNationRISE]

I'll take Trae Hung, Mac McHung, and Sabrinhung

[coin24]

I'll take Trae Hung, Mac McHung, and Sabrinhung

Look at that thick manly jaw on Sabrina I bet it’s packing!

[Airupthere]

Lillard/Trey
Sabrina
McClung

[pandiani17]

Some have done it we just have no memory of it. Damian Lillard was in it one year I know. And I think Donovan Mitchell won it. John Wall might’ve won one as well. I have no memory of any dunk any of them did though.

Also Blake Griffin in 2011, it was his rookie year but he played the ASG, IIRC. Paul George took part in 2012, the year previous to his breakout season. John Wall won it in 2014. I don't remember Donovan Mitchell or Damian Lillard though being in it, though. Let's hope they can get some of the old magic back this year.

[Xiao Yao You]

Scott Agness: Former Pacers and NBA Slam Dunk champions Darnell ‘Dr. Dunk’ Hillman (1977) and Fred Jones (2004) will serve as judges on Saturday night. Along with Gary Payton, Mitch Richmond and Dominique Wilkins (https://*********.com/social/).

– via Twitter ScottAgness (https://twitter.com/ScottAgness)




stick with guys who known for their dunking. Payton and Richmond weren't

[BarberSchool]

4 contestants in the dunk contest is a travesty.

At least 8, better yet 12 or 16 contestants.

The more they **** with these things and constant it change them the worse they get.

Mac McClung didn’t even do his best dunk last year, so he’ll repeat.

3pt contest ? Dame&Trae favorites, Markannen dark horse.

[fsvr54]

Rooting for my boy Brunson (and I'm a Hawks fan, but no dwarf fan) and Sabrina.

Haven't cared about the dunk contest since Aaron Gordon got robbed.

[SATAN]

Rooting for my boy Brunson (and I'm a Hawks fan, but no dwarf fan) and Sabrina.

Haven't cared about the dunk contest since Aaron Gordon got robbed.

McClung is a beast. Worth checking out his dunks.

[Xiao Yao You]

Gleaguers over Wemby :cheers:

[L.Kizzle]

Cason Wallace is ass. Misses ten 3's from the same spot and kept launching that thang!

[Hey Yo]

Wemby FTL against G-leaguers


:roll:

[Axe]

Looking forward to westbrook and reaves playing in the upcoming all-star game. :lebronamazed:

[L.Kizzle]

That G-Leaguer messed up the momentum with that 4-1 fast break and didn't pass until late.

[ShawkFactory]

Sabrina is gonna win. Steph won’t really give it 100% but we all know why.

[bladefd]

Sabrina is gonna win. Steph won’t really give it 100% but we all know why.

Ya.

I feel like it's a mistake doing that sort of challenge.

[Street Hunger]

Saturday night events live on TNT now.

Skills Challenge starting soon

[Kblaze8855]

Him losing wouldnt mean he didn’t give 100%. I’m pretty sure her last score beat his best round in any of the many years he competed. If they both shoot their best they ever did she’s gonna win. Total tossup to me. Just depends who is on. I also feel like it’s gonna generate more interest than anything else out here. This skill challenge I have muted at the moment

[SATAN]

Sabrina is gonna win. Steph won’t really give it 100% but we all know why.

I doubt he's just gonna let her win as a diversity/PR stunt for the league lol.

[BurningHammer]

Wemby's team will win because NBA why not. Book it.

[HylianNightmare]

2 guys already went thw wrong way in the skills challenge

[BurningHammer]

Paolo was sleeping :oldlol:

[Proctor]

Edwards is such a cvnt.

This "challenge" is a joke enough and we have him doing this low IQ shit.

:facepalm

[Kblaze8855]

C Think of a reason there is no one on one contest? It will get more hype than anything out here. Get some sponsor to put up $1 million. If the stars don’t want to do it, call the rising stars 101 and only let in players not in the game yet. But I think a lot of people would do it.

They had it 40 years ago. So it’s not like the idea escapes them. Think it’s the players union being against it?

[BurningHammer]

Tyrese is a showman. Nice.

[Real Men Wear Green]

Dray Green is already getting commercials again. I'm not saying he'll never have another incident and he'll be punished hard if he does but how much society cares was overblown. Unless he goes to prison he's guaranteed to have a long career in front of the camera.

[L.Kizzle]

This passing game is not needed. Keep that for Pro Bowl weekend.

[bison]

The passing portion of the skills challenge is the most painful to watch. They need to get some conveyor belts and cannons that shoot tennis balls on the court. Make it more like American Gladiators

[L.Kizzle]

Shouldn't there be a rule where they have to pass at every section. Smh.

[BurningHammer]

They could just line up for the 6s. :ohwell:

[L.Kizzle]

And Halliburton was grabbing two balls (pause.)
They should be disqualified.

[L.Kizzle]

Skills challenge took 45 minutes. You've gotta be kidding me.

[Street Hunger]

3-point contest:

2024 Participants:

Malik Beasley (Bucks)
Jalen Brunson (Knicks)
Tyrese Haliburton (Pacers)
Damian Lillard (Bucks) *
Lauri Markkanen (Jazz)
Donovan Mitchell (Cavaliers)
Karl-Anthony Towns (Timberwolves)
Trae Young (Hawks)

* defending champ

[Street Hunger]

Dunk contest:

2024 Participants:

Jaylen Brown (Celtics)
Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Heat)
Mac McClung (G League, Osceola Magic) *
Jacob Toppin (Knicks)

[bison]

I’m probably in the minority here but I am liking this LED court.

[Phoenix]

I’m probably in the minority here but I am liking this LED court.

I was just coming in here to post that I think it looks hideous and distracting.

[L.Kizzle]

All four need to go the Finals. Wtf.

[bladefd]

I’m probably in the minority here but I am liking this LED court.

Probably cost a ton of money.

[Hey Yo]

Guy Fieri front row.

:pimp:

[L.Kizzle]

So, now they have to shoot again.

[bison]

She’s shooting nba balls from the nba line? Damn. I’m scared she’s gonna choke and set women’s rights back 100 years

[Xiao Yao You]

She’s shooting nba balls from the nba line? Damn. I’m scared she’s gonna choke and set women’s rights back 100 years

said wnba balls from nba line

[SATAN]

this is gonna be a bloodbath.

[bison]

She came to play :lol:

[bison]

said wnba balls from nba line

I guess I didn’t hear the ‘w’. Anyway that’s not an advantage for Sabrina. Smaller hands cancels it out.

[Kblaze8855]

Setup perfectly For Steph to need the best performance of the night. I’m better he gets 27 by killing the last rack.

[SATAN]

Alternative Account where you at

[Kblaze8855]

He did it just Right having the money rack last.

[bison]

Currdingo still the c0ck of the walk. Beat lillard too.

[SATAN]

How the **** is Brown first?

[bison]

Anti white bias is in

[SATAN]

McClung is a freak.

[bison]

Maximum Hung McClung

[bison]

That was so awful. Dude pulled the arm blindfold after the dunk :facepalm:

[SATAN]

Kenny is a ****ing idiot. Sucking off Brown all contest when he hasn't done anything impressive.

[Xiao Yao You]

McClung has had the two best dunks. The judges suck

[SATAN]

Yeah this shit is rigged.

****ing disgusting.

[Xiao Yao You]

McClung is on another level.

[oldtimer28]

wow. I was excited to see McClung. All his dunks should be 50 due to his height but last year was much more impressive dunk choices.

[BurningHammer]

Mac's 1st dunk should have been at very least 49.

Also, Jacob Toppin should have been in the final.

NBA tried to rig Jaylen to win, obviously. If Mac missed the last dunk's 1st attempt Jaylen would win.

[tomtucker]

wow, this floor suck, gives you brain damage to look at.
So distracting ! 😳

Must be even worse for the players, they got the light shining right up in their eyes !


Just when thought the NBA could not get any worse......:banghead:

[ImKobe]

Man ASW has really went down in quality with each season. Players just don't take it as seriously as they used to. Same ****ing dunks over Shaq every year, no originality apart from the 1st McClung dunk but I can't believe the winning dunk was a lesser version of that. I think it's stupid they get penalized for missing a dunk, makes them take less risks.

[Nowoco]

Last night was such a washout. The skills competition was cringey. All those bricks, the passing game was long and whack. The dunk contest was bang average and poorly judged. Worst of all was the floor. Talk about answering a question no-one asked.

The three point shootout is the only thing that makes AS Saturday worth watching.

[Xiao Yao You]

Joel Embiid: I’m a professional hater but I’m not hating when I say I could win the dunk contest with these scores but not sure the knees would allow it lmao (https://*********.com/social/tweets/)

– via Twitter JoelEmbiid (https://twitter.com/JoelEmbiid)




he'd end up in an ICU :facepalm

[Phoenix]

At this point I would put the three point shoot-out last. The NBA has always featured the dunk contest as the main event but it usually ends the night on a whimper asides from Lavine-Gordon or McClung's breakthrough years ago.

And who the F thought the LED court was a good idea? Is this to distract from the product on the floor?

[FultzNationRISE]

They should hold the dunk contest less often so that it’s more prestigious, like once every four years. But they dont care about the quality of the event or what ‘purists’ think. Their goal is to attract as many millions of casuals to the TV as possible, as often as possible. That is the goal of their product. It’s not about basketball, it’s not about integrity, it’s not about anything fans think it ‘should’ be about. The goal is to get as many viewers, as often as possible. However they have to do it.

Would the regular season be a better product with fewer games? Yes. And they dont care. Would the dunk contest be better if it cycled around more rarely? Yes, and they dont care.

Whatever appeals to the average, casual “maybe Ill watch, maybe I wont, depends what kinda gimmick theyre running” viewer, is what youre gonna get. Youre gonna get whatever the typical couch potato wants to see when their channel surfing lands on a basketball game. Whatever gimmick makes a 50/50 viewer stick around and watch. Because they know their core audience aint goin anywhere anyway, no matter what.

Learn to accept it or find a new hobby.

[tomtucker]

Because they know their core audience aint goin anywhere anyway, no matter what.

Learn to accept it or find a new hobby.

I disagree with that..... you make a joke out of the game and real fans WILL leave.


I know the digital ads they now use on the ice and on the boards in the NHL have made fans stop watching, they simply had to.

Way too distracting to watch games when part of the playing surface or surrounding area is moving.

[tpols]

Not trying to be a buzzkill but the NBA has really dropped the ball on the All Star game.

It's frankly incredible that with billions of dollars at their disposal they can't make a great event out of some of the best athletes on this planet. It used to be good.


https://youtu.be/Xn0gZ3KnIU4?si=RSKU6y88HP_bDGko

The last memorable All Star game I recall was the Kobe vs Lebron H2H... and subsequent Pauk Lion King meltdown. :lol

[FultzNationRISE]

Not trying to be a buzzkill but the NBA has really dropped the ball on the All Star game.

It's frankly incredible that with billions of dollars at their disposal they can't make a great event out of some of the best athletes on this planet. It used to be good.


https://youtu.be/Xn0gZ3KnIU4?si=RSKU6y88HP_bDGko

The last memorable All Star game I recall was the Kobe vs Lebron H2H... and subsequent Pauk Lion King meltdown. :lol


Back in the day when there was no twitter and no youtube and no Inthide HOOOOOPth, allstar weekend was an opportunity for all players to increase their exposure.

Now theres a million other routes to exposure and all youre doing here is risking embarrassment or injury. Theres no incentive for it to matter to anyone.

It’s not even the NBA’s fault or anything they can do much about IMO. The risk/reward structure has simply changed over time. Just the new normal.

[FultzNationRISE]

I disagree with that..... you make a joke out of the game and real fans WILL leave.


I know the digital ads they now use on the ice and on the boards in the NHL have made fans stop watching, they simply had to.

Way too distracting to watch games when part of the playing surface or surrounding area is moving.


For sure, if they go too far all at once, like a BLM Disney Bubble, then ratings will plummet.

But changes implemented gradually? Thats the key. Serious fans will generally adapt over time even if the NBA implements a diluted product in pursuit of more new fans.

[tpols]

Back in the day when there was no twitter and no youtube and no Inthide HOOOOOPth, allstar weekend was an opportunity for all players to increase their exposure.

Now theres a million other routes to exposure and all youre doing here is risking embarrassment or injury. Theres no incentive for it to matter to anyone.

It’s not even the NBA’s fault or anything they can do much about IMO. The risk/reward structure has simply changed over time. Just the new normal.


I believe there may be. They should put in that old MLB rule and give winner of the west vs east homecourt in the Finals. That way the game has real implications.

[ArbitraryWater]

I believe there may be. They should put in that old MLB rule and give winner of the west vs east homecourt in the Finals. That way the game has real implications.


Lol, way too unfair and random

[FultzNationRISE]

I believe there may be. They should put in that old MLB rule and give winner of the west vs east homecourt in the Finals. That way the game has real implications.


Maybe, but if the all star games are taken seriously, a big star is inevitably going to get a real injury. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually it will happen.

NBA has to decide if that's really worth playing a meaingless allstar game. I mean these teams have no playbook, no chemistry, no practice time. It's just a bunch of good players out there playing a pickup game. Is seeing a 'serious' pickup game once a year worth risking an achilles injury to a superstar like Giannis or Luka or GOD FORBID King James??

I dont think the league believes it is.

[FultzNationRISE]

People need to just kind of accept it for what it is. The allstar game is not serious anymore, and it probably never will be again.

Just gotta live with it. It's really not a big deal to anything in the long run. In the bigger picture of life it's like the least important thing anyway, whether the NBA has a serious allstar game or not.

[Jasper]

Maybe, but if the all star games are taken seriously, a big star is inevitably going to get a real injury. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually it will happen.

NBA has to decide if that's really worth playing a meaingless allstar game. I mean these teams have no playbook, no chemistry, no practice time. It's just a bunch of good players out there playing a pickup game. Is seeing a 'serious' pickup game once a year worth risking an achilles injury to a superstar like Giannis or Luka or GOD FORBID King James??

I dont think the league believes it is.

always thought it should be played a week after the chip series..

[tpols]

Maybe, but if the all star games are taken seriously, a big star is inevitably going to get a real injury. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually it will happen.

NBA has to decide if that's really worth playing a meaingless allstar game. I mean these teams have no playbook, no chemistry, no practice time. It's just a bunch of good players out there playing a pickup game. Is seeing a 'serious' pickup game once a year worth risking an achilles injury to a superstar like Giannis or Luka or GOD FORBID King James??

I dont think the league believes it is.

Players that make the Finals play 100 games a year. They could literally get injured in any game. That type of mentality is why the NBA has seen its audience shrink.

These guys play somehwere north of 5,000 possessions every year. Any one of which could be season ending. We've seen guys get severely hurt in almost every game situation outside the ASG.

It makes no sense to try and "protect" everybody in this game but have 0 measures to prevent it in the other 99^ of games. Let them play.

[L.Kizzle]

always thought it should be played a week after the chip series..
They definitely wouldn't take it serious in that case lol.

[L.Kizzle]

Yall watching the TNT or TruTV telecast?

[FultzNationRISE]

Players that make the Finals play 100 games a year. They could literally get injured in any game. That type of mentality is why the NBA has seen its audience shrink.

These guys play somehwere north of 5,000 possessions every year. Any one of which could be season ending. We've seen guys get severely hurt in almost every game situation outside the ASG.

It makes no sense to try and "protect" everybody in this game but have 0 measures to prevent it in the other 99^ of games. Let them play.


Well regular season games ostensibly mean “something” for each team, even if very little in terms of any individual game consequence. So if a player gets hurt at least it was for something. The allstar game is an exhibition. There is no goal involved. And to your point about minutes, one could argue if theyre playing so many already what good does it do to increase their game load? Especially for what is, again, a basically pointless game that comes from a time before the internet existed.

But also just in terms of perception. If a guy blows an achilles going hard this year, players are gonna be wary of going hard next year, no matter what you put on the line (unless it’s some unrealistic financial amount).

Guys just dont wanna risk it now. The game doesnt mean what it used to.

Maybe theyll prove me wrong tonight :lol But realistically… the game is dead. It’s over.

[L.Kizzle]

I just noticed East has no big men.

[Xiao Yao You]

I just noticed East has no big men.

Bam and Giannis should suffice

[L.Kizzle]

I just noticed East has no big men.

Nevermind, forgot Bam was even an All-Star this season.

[SATAN]

Hopefully it's not one guy obviously going for MVP while everyone else ****s around

[SATAN]

Unless it's LeBron...

[Xiao Yao You]

Unless it's LeBron...

Khobi Price: LeBron James said he received treatment on his left ankle over the last few days. (https://*********.com/social/) Says he’ll be seeking more treatment tomorrow. He’ll play in tonight’s All-Star Game but don’t expect a heavy minutes load.
– via Twitter khobi_price (https://twitter.com/khobi_price)

[Hey Yo]

Haliburton flopping in the AS game???


:facepalm

[L.Kizzle]

Haliburton going for 73.

[SATAN]

Luka's "energy" is ****ing garbage.

[L.Kizzle]

Who's the lady on the TruTV alt cast?

[L.Kizzle]

First quarter it's 53-47.

They goin for Two-hunnid or what.

[Doomsday Dallas]

53-47 after the 1st quarter.

maybe a team can crack 200 this year.

[Doomsday Dallas]

First quarter it's 53-47.

They goin for Two-hunnid or what.

https://www.nba.com/news/history-nba-all-star-game

looks like 196 is the record in 2016

[SATAN]

And there you have it...A "3d" ad the size of the entire court...

[L.Kizzle]

Bron still in the game ... why? Has he sat yet?

[Lebron23]

Does Luka Doncic have a hang over? Looks like he has no interest in this all star game. Hopefully he attempts more shots in this game. East is now leading.

[L.Kizzle]

Does Luka Doncic have a hang over? Looks like he has no interest in this all star game. Hopefully he attempts more shots in this game. East is now leading.

It's a joke to him and he's treating it as such.

[L.Kizzle]

104. Needs 96 to get to 200.

They've scored 50+ each quarter.

[SATAN]

It's a joke to him and he's treating it as such.

People shouldn't vote for him.

[L.Kizzle]

People shouldn't vote for him.
They will continue to vote for him.

[jlip]

Interestingly it appears that there is slightly more defense being played in the first half this year than in recent years. (That's not saying much.) But these guys are making an insane amount of threes.

[Lebron23]

104 East 89 West end of first half

[L.Kizzle]

Interestingly it appears that there is slightly more defense being played in the first half this year than in recent years. (That's not saying much.) But these guys are making an insane amount of threes.
Haven't seen ANY defense played.

[Hey Yo]

Joker had us fooled. Showed the facial expression, both arms cocked back for the tomahawk slam and lays it in last second. That was classic.

Reggie was wrong thinking he ran out of gas.

[Hey Yo]

Haven't seen ANY defense played.

What next, they're haven't been any 3pt shots taken yet?

[L.Kizzle]

What next, they're haven't been any 3pt shots taken yet?
76 three's have been launched.

[jlip]

Luka is just having fun. This is meaningless to him.

Dame :bowdown:

[Nowoco]

They seriously need to cancel the all-star weekend altogether. Enough of this shit.

[SATAN]

Luka is ****ing pathetic.

[L.Kizzle]

They play harder in the Drew League lol.

[fourkicks44]

Dame aint forgot about Halliburton clowning him earlier this season.

Last night he was staring daggers at him during the 3 point comp and tonight he is trying to take his MVP in front of his home crowd after Doc told the team to get Tyrese the MVP.

[L.Kizzle]

West should at least stop them from dropping 200 on them.
All they need is 40.

54
51
56

Points every quarter for the East.

[L.Kizzle]

East reserves killing their shot for 200.

[Carbine]

This is an embarrassment. Nobody besides little kids truly enjoys this game.

[L.Kizzle]

They gonna store 210 at least.
Something HAS to be done about this.

[bison]

This is what a normal regular season NBA game will look like in 10 years.

[L.Kizzle]

This is what a normal regular season NBA game will look like in 10 years.

They're gonna move the 3 point line back a few feet by then.

[SATAN]

Won't be watching another All-Star game again in the foreseeable future.

[Phoenix]

Garbage.

[bison]

If these ASG are just gonna be a free play with zero defense, these guys really need to ham it up. Do some crazy alley oops or trick shots. Have a guy like Jokic try a 360. Just something other than jacking up 3s for 48 minutes.

[Im Still Ballin]

Dame and Jaylen shamelessly gunned for MVP. Tyrese should win. Way more efficient.

[L.Kizzle]

They gonna store 210 at least.
Something HAS to be done about this.

Damn, I was off one. They scored 211.

[Phoenix]

And Joker with the perfect summation of this game on that last play.

[k 96]

I bet 80% of you on this thread would not be complaining if leESPNHYPE james was on the team that scored 200 points.
PATHETIC FAN GIRLS

:banana:

[fourkicks44]

We need a Bucks vs Pacers playoff series this year.

[Axe]

Damn, I was out off. They scored 211.
Lol with the east scoring 50 or more per quarter, it's the highest scoring asg to date. And that's with at least five players scoring over 30 too. :oldlol:

[L.Kizzle]

KAT scored 50 pts with no fanfare.

[Xiao Yao You]

Lol with the east scoring 50 or more per quarter, it's the highest scoring asg to date. And that's with at least five players scoring over 30 too. :oldlol:

your kind of game!

[Shaquille O'Neal]

I did see LeFraud try to throw himself an ally oop off the backboard, botch it completely, then try to hit a turn around jumpshot that missed badly. Just before clanking all his 3's. But TNT will show his 3-4 wide open lane dunks.
This is why people are tired of this dude. You're 6'9" and should be able to dunk uncontested. Especially all roided up.

How embarrassing.

[SATAN]

I did see LeFraud try to throw himself an ally oop off the backboard, botch it completely, then try to hit a turn around jumpshot that missed badly. Just before clanking all his 3's. But TNT will show his 3-4 wide open lane dunks.
This is why people are tired of this dude. You're 6'9" and should be able to dunk uncontested. Especially all roided up.

How embarrassing.

I'm glad it upsets you tbh.

[1987_Lakers]

These scores are ridiculous. Both teams basically scored 200 points. All-star game should be abolished at this point, the players don't care about it.

Kobe must be fuming about this from his grave, the NBA named the all-star game MVP after him.

[Cold soul]

These scores are ridiculous. Both teams basically scored 200 points. All-star game should be abolished at this point, the players don't care about it.

Kobe must be fuming about this from his grave, the NBA named the all-star game MVP after him.

I'm a little shocked here with you saying this since over the years all I see is you hating on Kobe :oldlol:

[Baller234]

What's crazy to me is that going into the game, pretty much everyone was saying how awful the game has been lately and how nobody plays defense or takes it serious anymore. I guess I was semi-hopeful in thinking that the both the players and the league would take it heart and surprise everyone.

But nope, they fed right into it. In fact it's like they gave even less of an effort just to fukk with everyone.

All-star weekend used to be must see. It's a real shame. Lebron and Silver's NBA.

[Axe]

your kind of game!
Where's your guy or hero, btw? :lol

[FultzNationRISE]

What's crazy to me is that going into the game, pretty much everyone was saying how awful the game has been lately and how nobody plays defense or takes it serious anymore. I guess I was semi-hopeful in thinking that the both the players and the league would take it heart and surprise everyone.

But nope, they fed right into it. In fact it's like they gave even less of an effort just to fukk with everyone.

All-star weekend used to be must see. It's a real shame. Lebron and Silver's NBA.


"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me every single year... I must be the general public!"

[90sgoat]

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me every single year... I must be the general public!"

Yeah, the average american is a fat slob with very little brain activity.

I haven't watched the ASG in 10 years. It's unwatchable. The competitions themselves like the skill game and the 3 point shootout are more fun.

[Xiao Yao You]

Where's your guy or hero, btw? :lol

you and your heroes. Grow up Bot! :facepalm

[Axe]

Absent! Not chosen for this year. :facepalm
Hahaha

[Nowoco]

Adam Silver has been a complete disaster for this league. Almost everything wrong with it is on him.

[Jasper]

dame 3 point champ
Dame MVP all-star game

only other player to do it : MJ

Bucks now have two active players that were all-star MVP's

[90sgoat]

Adam Silver has been a complete disaster for this league. Almost everything wrong with it is on him.

Him buying into the BLM and subsequent "player empowerment" has ruined the league.

There's a reason so few players have business careers after they quit. Running a business is a very different skill to hooping. Letting the players run the league has been a disaster and Silver is afraid to reign them in, because he's bought into the BLM ideology.

[Xiao Yao You]

dame 3 point champ
Dame MVP all-star game

only other player to do it : MJ

Bucks now have two active players that were all-star MVP's

not going to help them come play off time

[Manny98]

dame 3 point champ
Dame MVP all-star game

only other player to do it : MJ

Bucks now have two active players that were all-star MVP's

Only thing Lillar is winning this season :oldlol:

[tomtucker]

Only way to make it competitive is to make the All Star game mean something....... let the winning conference have home court advantage in the NBA finals..... like MLB had for many years.

[FKAri]

Adam Silver has been a complete disaster for this league. Almost everything wrong with it is on him.

Majority of the issues people have with the modern NBA were all put into place on Stern's watch. Silver's just kept the ball rolling. He hasn't really made his own mark.

[Real Men Wear Green]

They need to sufficiently incentivize defense. I don't know how you do that with a bunch of max players in an exhibition game but that's the problem they have to address. If they aren't already doing this then pay the winning team a million per player. Treat the practice like a real practice.

[L.Kizzle]

They need to sufficiently incentivize defense. I don't know how you do that with a bunch of max players in an exhibition game but that's the problem they have to address. If they aren't already doing this then pay the winning team a million per player. Treat the practice like a real practice.

They play harder in the Drew League.

[SATAN]

dame 3 point champ
Dame MVP all-star game

only other player to do it : MJ



MJ never won a 3 point contest...

[Xiao Yao You]

They need to sufficiently incentivize defense. I don't know how you do that with a bunch of max players in an exhibition game but that's the problem they have to address. If they aren't already doing this then pay the winning team a million per player. Treat the practice like a real practice.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: In this season in which the league’s inaugural In-Season Tournament paid players of the winning team $500,000 apiece, that may be the only way to fix this problem. This, apparently, is the pay-for-play era. Even if the league already has players topping the $50 million mark in annual salary and a seven-figure minimum ($1.1 million). As one league source shared afterward, when the players had talked privately about why they’d chosen this tough-to-watch style of play, the IST set the kind of precedent that won’t be forgotten anytime soon (https://theathletic.com/5284950/2024/02/19/nba-all-star-game-offense-scoring-reaction/).
– via The Athletic (https://theathletic.com/5284950/2024/02/19/nba-all-star-game-offense-scoring-reaction/)

[Real Men Wear Green]

They play harder in the Drew League.
They play harder in the YMCA.

[FultzNationRISE]

But here’s the uncomfortable truth: In this season in which the league’s inaugural In-Season Tournament paid players of the winning team $500,000 apiece, that may be the only way to fix this problem. This, apparently, is the pay-for-play era. Even if the league already has players topping the $50 million mark in annual salary and a seven-figure minimum ($1.1 million). As one league source shared afterward, when the players had talked privately about why they’d chosen this tough-to-watch style of play, the IST set the kind of precedent that won’t be forgotten anytime soon (https://theathletic.com/5284950/2024/02/19/nba-all-star-game-offense-scoring-reaction/).
– via The Athletic (https://theathletic.com/5284950/2024/02/19/nba-all-star-game-offense-scoring-reaction/)


The IST generates revenue over the course of multiple games, on top of which only the winning team gets $500,000k, and thats mainly a big deal to the guys on lower end contracts.

I dont think the league will see a value proposition in paying BOTH teams at LEAST $500k to play a single game, while also increasing the odds a superstar player gets hurt. Not only is the amount unlikely to be enough to make the players care, but the game just doesnt generate the kind of revenue to justify that from the league’s perspective either (as far as I’m aware).

[BarberSchool]

Not a great weekend for Silver.

1. He continued to look & sound 1,000% like an effeminate alien driving a human corpse, who shouldn’t be in charge of a league of professional basketball players. All his public appearances continue to do is embarrass him, and help to further entrench and confirm the wide assortment of anti-Zionist conspiracy theories about Jews, with every additional moment they see Silver speak and try to seem human.

2. 4 dunk contest contestants (should be 16, 1 dunk each round). McClung didn’t do anything more exciting or dope than last year. Jaime Jacquez in the dunk contest REEKS of the worst kind of race-based pandering in marketing. Anyone who knows anything about dunking knows he shouldn’t be there.

3. Ionescu didn’t win, but did very well from men’s distance. However, her personality and looks are simply so lesbian and unsexy and boring that all of her efforts still will not increase any type of viewership for the WNBA. Women will never care, and men won’t either unless they’re at least half fine. The league is currently maybe less than 5% fine.

4. Game was an absolutely embarrassing, low energy, lazy, Sunday morning scrimmage.

[TJ44]

They should cancel the whole All Star Weekend.

1. As an European, i knew not even one of those Celebrities in the Celebrity Game. For me it was watching a bunch of unknown and uninteresting People playing bad Basketball.
2. The Skills Contest was a chaotic and messed up running around and throwing Balls in an uncontrollable fashion. The Passing Hole was so big that my Grandmother could have hit it with a Blindfold. I don´t know what they mean with "Skill".
3. The 3 Point Contest was nice to watch but concluded to an absurd contest when after the Contest Steph Curry hit more than any Participants in his Duel against the female Player from the WNBA
4. The Dunk contest was boring like 90% of the Times in the last 20 years.
5. The All Star Game was a Disgrace for this Sport and a shame for the NBA.

[Phoenix]

- replace skills contest with 1 on 1

- open up the dunk contest to professional non-NBAers. Limit the judges to past contest winners

- USA vs World all-star game. Move the time up a few hours

- Cap the number of 3s to like...25 attempts I guess. You want to keep shooting from distance after that? No problem, you only getting 1 point. Not 2. 1. Or go even more radical and make dunks and layups worth 3 and the 3 point distance shots worth 2. Actually make the paint something to defend instead of a ****ing layup line.

[90sgoat]

They should cancel the whole All Star Weekend.

1. As an European, i knew not even one of those Celebrities in the Celebrity Game.

Yeah, but you probably don't realize that the african-american community view the All Star Game as a sort of holiday of sorts, a "Black Thanksgiving (https://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/18/nba.allstar.black.thanksgiving/index.html)"


"Considering that the culture of basketball in a predominantly black league like the NBA is so strongly connected to African American culture, the NBA All-Star weekend has turned into a celebration of African American culture by extension,

This kind of racist thinking is what ruined the NBA.

Silver allowed racists to convince him that the NBA and basketball was only black and that having any demands of players in the NBA was thus the same as being racist.

[FultzNationRISE]

- USA vs World all-star game. Move the time up a few


Pointless now. The International Team would be Jokic, Embiid, Giannis, Shai, and Luka.

USA wouldnt even be competitive if the Internationals actually play hard. The only thing that could balance it out for the Americans is a prime LeHercules, but he’s 39 now and cant take on the world by himself anymore.

USA would get embarrassed.

[Nowoco]

- replace skills contest with 1 on 1

- open up the dunk contest to professional non-NBAers. Limit the judges to past contest winners

- USA vs World all-star game. Move the time up a few hours

- Cap the number of 3s to like...25 attempts I guess. You want to keep shooting from distance after that? No problem, you only getting 1 point. Not 2. 1. Or go even more radical and make dunks and layups worth 3 and the 3 point distance shots worth 2. Actually make the paint something to defend instead of a ****ing layup line.

Stars won't do it so no-one will care.

They've done this before outside the NBA. No-one cares. It's not the dunks that matter, it's the players performing them. Without superstars and narratives, its boring and tedious.

Won't make any difference. It will be the same shitty play with different teams.

Makes a mockery of the game and something even more approaching a shootaround. Plus the ASG is full of uncontested dunks with wide open lanes. There will just be even more of them.

[Phoenix]

Pointless now. The International Team would be Jokic, Embiid, Giannis, Shai, and Luka.

USA wouldnt even be competitive if the Internationals actually play hard. The only thing that could balance it out for the Americans is a prime LeHercules, but he’s 39 now and cant take on the world by himself anymore.

USA would get embarrassed.

The US can still field KD, Steph, Lebron, Kawhi, Dame, Tatum, Booker, AD, Ant-man, Halburton, PG13, KAT, Mitchell, Kyrie. And Embiid could suit up for the US for all we know? The very top end may be International-centric but USA could still field a deeper 12 man roster of talent with the higher number of 2nd and 3rd tier stars.

[FultzNationRISE]

The US can still field KD, Steph, Lebron, Kawhi, Dame, Tatum, Booker, AD, Ant-man, Halburton, PG13, KAT, Mitchell, Kyrie. And Embiid could suit up for the US for all we know? The very top end may be International-centric but USA could still field a deeper 12 man roster of talent with the higher number of 2nd and 3rd tier stars.


Im not really counting guys like Lebron, KD, Steph and Kawhi when it comes to “going forward.” Sure theyd still balance the USA out for the next year or two, but thats it.

When you talk about the under-30 lineups, Internationals have a supreme starting 5, and a very strong bench to boot with Zingis, Sabonis, Siakam, Lauri, J Murray.

Itd prob be ideal for balance to make it “America” (US + Canada) so you can take Shai and Murray off the internationals.

If you include Canada as International it’s just really really bad.

[fsvr54]

Two ideas anyone with a brain would love:

Dunk contest has to become a poster contest, dunk on a 7ft beast defender.

Three point contest should be with some kind of arm or stick in the face of the shooter

[Phoenix]

Im not really counting guys like Lebron, KD, Steph and Kawhi when it comes to “going forward.” Sure theyd still balance the USA out for the next year or two, but thats it.

When you talk about the under-30 lineups, Internationals have a supreme starting 5, and a very strong bench to boot with Zingis, Sabonis, Siakam, Lauri, J Murray.

Itd prob be ideal for balance to make it “America” (US + Canada) so you can take Shai and Murray off the internationals.

If you include Canada as International it’s just really really bad.

Yeah that's a fair point, when the millennial American stars are gone in a few years that will widen the gap. Assuming Wemby pans out its even worse.

I dont know what the solution is, but what we saw last weekend will continue to worsen the brand and Silver very clearly doesn't have the cajones his predecessor did.

[Xiao Yao You]

Shams Charania: Lakers’ LeBron James (ankle) is listed out vs. Warriors on Thursday (https://*********.com/social/).

– via Twitter ShamsCharania (https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania)




why play in the all-star game if you're not able to play before or after?

[post]

next year curry and delle donne shoot free throws until one of them misses