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What lol.they paid crazy money to see a G league team at this years festivities.my proposal would produce playoff intensity games and people will pay for that.

 

Do you know how much tickets prices are for All Star weekend.It was more than 1000 when in LA at Staples in 2018.Now it's more expensive.G-League tickets aren't that expensive and nobody in their right mind will pay these prices

 

Or maybe it's just time off for the all-stars, while all the other lesser players and scrubs have to keep playing, and we can call it the "All-Stars' Break."

 

adding in a money prize and going back to east/west or even usa vs world could help improve the quality of the ASG

but the main problem to me is how soft these guys are and if teams would be willing to allow their stars to risk getting injured in a meaningless game

 

You do realize that a G league all-star team played in the rising star games tournament right? People paid top dollar for that fiasco but won’t to see an Olympic style tournament? I believe you’re off base on your assumption

 

this is it to me. when cuban took over in dallas, he questioned the reasoning of dirk playing for the german national team. he relented, but his point wasn't bad, tbh.

why should his team foot the insurance on such a thing? the germans paid nothing. if dirk tore an achilles for the fatherland, it's the dallas mavericks that ultimately pay the toll.

further, people are asking to dictate what nba players want. and you can play with incentives to motivate performance, but you can't make people want things (i'm saying this as a psychologist--it's like, the only lesson i've learned over many years). the players don't want to compete in the allstar game. and now, the fans don't really want to watch it. let's fold it, imo.

it had a good run when the culture was different. but even in the glory days, people mostly didn't defend at all. it's a small (but vocal) minority that wants to return to the golden era of the allstar game, and they sweep under the rug that the game itself was probably less entertaining on the whole (i.e., a random regular season game was less watchable) back then.

watch luka, jokic, or durant play in the playoffs--they want it there. they cannot and will not be bothered to do a pony show in february until the hall of fame starts propping up allstar game stats or something.

and they're not wrong. steph curry launching a halfcourt shot is, imo, the epitome. i think steph actually did it very purposefully--here's a skill that you'll never see in a high-stakes game but is possible because i'm that f***ing good at this. but folks don't even really want that. they want the league's best players--people rich beyond their wildest imaginations--to want to basically gladiator it out for no real payoff. i'd opt out, too.

i honestly think kobe's sort of old-school psycho turn in the allstar games was the proper behind-the-barn sendoff to the tradition. he's the only one who cared, and he could sort of embarrass dwyane wade in caring for three minutes, but nobody but us remembers, right?

 

Miss the 90s, 2000s era… probably will never get that type of basketball competitiveness ever again.

 

LOL.people bought tickets to watch Steph or Wembanyama , nobody cared there for Castle or our Dalton Knecht.And they were disappointed when LeBron didn't play

 

I like the idea of giving the winning conf 5 extra wins for East or West.
I also like the 1v1 idea, but instead of money, each player gains Three extra wins for his team for playoff seeding purposes.
These top 20 guys have way to much money to put anything on the line for extra money, but to help their team out? I think that would garner interest.
I would also completely remove the three ball from any team vs. team competition. Nobody is entertained by constant Chuck after Chuck after Chuck.

 

Yeah, Kevin Hart is not funny, at all.
This is one of my biggest gripes about media- they keep shoving this no talent guy in every commercial, movie, and now the All Star game?
I fast forwarded every time he started talking or popped up on the screen.

 

These games were fun- it was actual competition.

 

So where is all this fake outrage for Antman?

 

I guess I'm glad I didn't watch any of it except highlights of a G Leaguer dunking over a car.

 

Has anyone heard this krap anywhere else, who is this guy making this claim??

 

I personally think it’s pure AI generated crap to generate clicks

 

slow day summer trade target: we've discussed him before, but i feel like orlando has to make some choices re: wendell carter. i saw an article today suggesting that if there were an expansion draft, he'd probably be left unprotected today. that's meaningless, of course, but it's also true that a) he has a salary bump coming and b) they have two other centers on the roster who are playable (mo wagner and goga bitadze).

i wonder if there's a deal to be had here using kleber's contract. we'd have to add something, i think. knecht is too much, but maybe they'd give us their pick or the one denver owes them in this year's draft to even it out a bit.

kleber/knecht for wcj/den 1st seems pretty fair to me. if we could do it without knecht, that would obviously be better. i just think they'd want something more to show for the move than future salary relief.

 

I'd be pretty happy with that trade. WCJ is a good post defender that can also switch pretty well. Not an awesome rim protector, but fits with switchier lineups with Luka and LeBron. He shot really well from 3 last year but has been pretty bad with that this year. I could also see Orlando doing it because they could really use Dalton's shooting. KCP has defended fine for them but hasn't been able to make shots.

We'd probably still want to have a rim protector/lob guy as the backup 5. Maybe Capela, who will be a UFA and should probably be a 20 minutes per game guy at this point? That would be a solid center rotation that doesn't require our last bit of draft capital.

 

Yeah, makes sense. Guess I will block that creator.

 

It's just clickbait channel .
He reported earlier that Lakers signed Durant, Valancunas and some other players