WHAT?! The All-Star Game was ACTUALLY great…except for Team World
Ryan Blackburn breaks down the NBA All-Star festivities, highlighted by the NBA All-Star game format last night featuring two Team USA teams vs one Team World. Ryan discusses the game, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray performances, and why this format is likely here to stay for another couple seasons at least. He also shares some news and notes, as well as how it’s now time to turn the page and think about the burden to come for the Denver Nuggets post All-Star break.
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No they don't have right to be disappointed because when Jokic and Luka started playing in AllStar games the games were the way they were, if you want harder games in the future it's on young players like Ant, Wemby who's 22 and guys like Cooper Flagg who's future AllStar player, Americans for some reason are obsessed with AllStar game but in Serbia maybe 1% of basketball fans really cares about that particular game, it's meaningless unless you have two superstars going at each other competing and trying to show the world that they are the no.1, then there's something otherwise it will lack intensity
Am I missing something? You were talking as though Pwat would be straight back in the rotation after all star break? Unless you made a mistake?
I am getting to the point that if Jokic doesn't want to make the effort to play hard or meet the moment, then he should claim to be injured and sit it out. His lack of effort is just so noticeable; even when the others try, he doesn't even try to match their effort or energy.
Yeah Jokic and Luka should have sat out like Giannis and Steph if they weren't 100%. Also, it was competitive., well 3 of the 4 games were. Why does your title say except Team World??? It was the oldheads that laid an egg in the final game. Team World actually competed for the most part.
All star has been shit for last 10 years. It should not exist at this point.
Also, lets be honest this years dunk contest was utterly trash. It left such a bad taste that I had to play the Gordon – LaVine dunk contest afterwards to cleanse my palate.
Crazy kawhi could actually do a Kobe and get 80 in a game if all the pieces fall into place
Wemby and Towns carried team World. I guess we found out who had pride in their background.
Murray did what for Wemby? Murray was trash in game one.