The Death of the NBA All-Star Game
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2023
- The NBA All Star Game has become less and less entertaining over the past couple of years, and it's sparking the debate of if the NBA should keep trying to fix it or if it might be time to try something new.
There were plenty of entertaining moments from the NBA All Star Weekend, with Mac McClung having some of the most electric dunks we've seen from an NBA Dunk Contest in years. The NBA Three Point Contest was at least remotely entertaining, with Damian Lillard securing his first win against Buddy Hield and Tyrese Haliburton, but the All Star Game itself felt underwhelming an lackluster.
The NBA All Star 2023 Weekend was just another underwhelming entry in a long line of boring All Star games.
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Anthony edwards is spot on. Every celtics game i went to where they played lebron, he would be "resting" yet I still had to pay triple the amount for the ticket just because lebron was on the roster.
A 1v1 would be great. Pick some good 2 way players and have them go head to head. They wouldn’t want to get embarrassed, so they’d actually try, plus it could spark some good rivalries
I've always hated the All-Star halftime show. The NBA wants it to compete with the Super Bowl halftime show but let's be real, that's never going to happen.
I miss the traditional East vs West matches unlike nowadays where the 2 most popular players pick who they want on their team.
It’s everybody’s fault.
I am from Spain and I love the NBA, the basketball and sports in general. The main problem that I find when people are talking about these kind of NBA issues is the lack of passion. Here in Europe people really feel love for a team and not for a single player, going to the stadium, to a bar or turning on the TV to support your team no matter what. Players come and go but your team will be there for your entire life. It is a feeling and a tradition shared from the parents to their children and that creates a completly different environment where it is so easy to find joy, rivalry, sadness, dreams... We don't have Rihanna in the Eurobasket finals but we don't want it anyways. It is so sad watching the fans there paying attention to everything except the game itself, everybody looking at their phones and social media the whole time instead of really living the experience of being there and feeling something more. And all of that reality finds its best scenario on the All Star 'game'.
I’m from the UK and saw on the NBA app that the game was starting at
I think a 3v3 tournament with 12 teams participating - and having players sign up for the event along with picking their partners - could be an interesting idea
The changes in game format and team structure (not simply East vs West) makes me care even less about the All Star game than I normally would.
I don’t think there’s anything else they can do at this point. 2020 was so memorable because of the passing of Kobe, and players taking pride in paying homage to him. 2018 was also dope, the first year they made “pickup style” teams. Basically the year they make changes, it’s fun, and subsequently it goes down to zero effort on their part. No amount of money will be enough to incentivize them. I just think it’s a question of pride and ego whether they choose to go hard during the game or not. If there’s no backstory tied to the game, players won’t care and risk injury. The ASW is cooked I fear
You hit the nail on the head about the NBA focusing on individual players rather than teams. Despite every player saying "it's not about me, it's about the team", none of these superstars believe that. The big reason is that they get paid way too much for them to get attached to any team with any level of passion. It's only going to get worse. Does it really have to take a Kobe death to make these guys compete? Maybe changing it to a one on one tournament is a better option. Less chance to get injured and more motivation to actually try since it puts a bit of their pride on the line. Done there are more individual rivalries rather than team rivalries, this might actually work.
Agree with Ant-man. I went to the Pacers-Bulls game right before the break and DeRozan sat out, but then had the nerve to play in the All-star game in Utah a few days later. The resting of stars is out of control.
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i think we should ditch the game have a 3 on 3 tourney or 2v2 tourney to 7 or 11, or make more teams and run it like rising stars and have a losers bracket and do games to 50. or do some pro bowl stuff like dodgeball like i would watch nba guys play dodgeball and they would be so invested cause its not basketball. have them do other things because an actual basketball game is the last thing on thier minds.
The MLB already did the home field advantage thing and fans hated it. So they scrapped it in 2017. I think the all star game is more of an event and celebration at this point. But I do think they should go back to East vs West.
I’m from Singapore and I grew up watching the likes of Jordan, Ewing, Drexler etc. As someone who plays sports, I’ve always enjoyed competing with equal or even better players. The all-star game now is not worth watching at all. For starters, bring back east-west, give the players back their team jerseys so they can feel the pride and show why they were chosen in the first place.
With Larry and Magic, and to a major extent MJ, the NBA learned that i was probably more profitable to market players over teams. Sort of like a boxing match.
If the players are aware of the lack of effort, then it's really up to them to make it more competitive. As for the "player's don't want to get injured" take, I don't recall any of the previous all-star games having any injuries; at this point, a 1 v 1 tournament would be cool but players probably won't agree to that either.
It used to be a way to see players you wouldn't usually see. If you were in NY during the 80's you might only see Magic play once a year on TV. So the All Star game was a great way to watch the best.