It’s not having Kevin Hart on the mic berating players.
What the NBA All Star Game needs is simple.
That’s all we want.
Nobody is looking for gimmicks or contests or tournaments.
We just want to watch the best players in the world play basketball against each other.
It kills the vibe, it kills the crowd, it kills the player excitement.
In terms of the actual basketball we got in the games, it was fine.
The NBA needs to make this whole night about basketball, not bullshit.
Trae Young sums it up pretty perfectly in my opinion.
How is that in the best interest of the players and player health?
You’re just asking for a pulled hamstring or something.
Nobody is going to give full effort if they’re having 20+ minute breaks all throughout the night.
The actual games were fine.
Pretty much what you expect in an All Star Game, so that part is whatever.
The issue is everything else around the basketball.
Putting the game on the back burner for bullshit is the problem.
Maybe have some commentators that aren’t spending the whole time shitting on players and the product.
That may help too I would imagine.
So Adam, c’mon, figure it the fuck out.
The tournament thing is most likely here to stay, so fine.
Everyone will adjust and it’ll become the norm.
But the league has to figure out how to not have so many breaks and stoppages of momentum.
The whole night felt like a slog to get through, like nobody had any idea what to do.
Just give us the basketball, it’s really that simple.
Make no mistake, Jayson Tatum was robbed of the All Star MVP as well.
Very embarrassing behavior for a league that had a pretty brutal night
