NBA NBA All-Star weekend, February 13th-15th, Intuit Dome, LA

[ace3g]

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[dastexan]

Love it for Carter Bryant. Kid is just growing up by the day and it just keeps doing wonders for his confidence!

 

[dastexan]

Hopefully they fix this for next year imo. Should've just given Team Carter the ball out of bounds.

You shouldnt even be allowed to shoot free throws in something like this. Thats weak.

 

[Raven_]

You shouldnt even be allowed to shoot free throws in something like this. Thats weak.

i disagree, if he had missed they would call it a choke

 

[spursparker9]

"Score X to win" should ban FTs. You can call foul and restart from the sideline

 

[dastexan]

"Score X to win" should ban FTs. You can call foul and restart from the sideline

They should have made twos count as 1 and 3s count as 2 in the final.

That went way too fast, tbh.

 

[dastexan]

or play to 50.

not really sure why you play to such a lower score in the final tbh.

 

[Area 51.247]

I'm feeling especially grateful and awe-filled today to realize we have 2 All-Stars, 2 Rising Stars and 1 Slam Dunk Competition participant this weekend. It was barely over a year ago we were debating whether Tre Jones should be playing more, Zollins, Branham, Wesley, Sochan were among our playing time candidates. Just ridiculous to see us here today. I don't think we should take ALL the credit, but, this didn't happen until the Baseline Bums came into being.

Three Rising Stars!

Late addition Carter Bryant's Team Vince put away Dylan and Steph's Team Melo 25-24 for the championship.

 

[Dex]

"Score X to win" should ban FTs. You can call foul and restart from the sideline

Only problem with that is teams might go foul-happy and could risk injury

 

[Correct Crusader]

Only problem with that is teams might go foul-happy and could risk injury

Boohoo. Injuries are generally freak accidents anyway. I love the intensity.

 

[Robz4000]

Only problem with that is teams might go foul-happy and could risk injury

If it's intentional then have it be a technical FT and ball imo.

 

[spursparker9]

Only problem with that is teams might go foul-happy and could risk injury

Nah....other than a few nutcase like Rodman....these modern millionaires basketball player would understand this is a celebratory event and I trust 99% have sportsmanship not to foul hard anyone intentionally.

If injuries still happen, it would be due to bad luck and not by players playing extremely aggressive like their livelihood depends on it

 

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[Robz4000]

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Destiny's Child? Dude is an old soul tbh.

 

[spursparker9]

what? LA is CB's hometown?

MATFO better look out during his free agency

 

[DAF86]

I really like the rising star game format

I made a thread about this while on SpursTalk and got pushback. I don't know why the hell for.

It's clear that these short games, tournament format with a fixed score to hit is the best way to keep the play competitive and the guys engaged.

I don't know why they use this format for the rising stars but don't use it for the whole thing. It's way better.

 

[Robz4000]

I made a thread about this while on SpursTalk and got pushback. I don't know why the hell for.

It's clear that these short games, tournament format with a fixed score to hit is the best way to keep the play competitive and the guys engaged.

I don't know why they use this format for the rising stars but don't use it for the whole thing. It's way better.

They tried it for the ASG a few years ago and it helped slightly. Problem is a lot of the players still didn't get up for it.

 

[Dbreiden83080]

They tried it for the ASG a few years ago and it helped slightly. Problem is a lot of the players still didn't get up for it.

They are not going to get up for it unfortunately. It sucks for the fans, but these players make so much fucking money these days they just don’t give a shit anymore. I’m not really in favor of canceling the game altogether, but it’s getting very close to that point of just doing it. You literally have all-time great players like Kevin Durant saying well “it’s not our fault. The game sucks”. It’s bad.

 

[STAT88]

As an NBA fan for 20+ years I’d be happy if they just scrapped the AS weekend. I haven’t had interest for over 10 years. Just announce your all stars and have a 5 day break or something and that’s that. Or just use the extra week to spread the games over and have less back to backs.

 

[Robz4000]

OT, but this Hampton/NC A&T game was great tbh.

 

[BatManu20]

what? LA is CB's hometown?

MATFO better look out during his free agency

Yup he's from Riverside. So like an hour East of LA. I think he's going to be a Spur lifer though tbh. Or at least the majority of his career. Kid is a quintessential Spur in terms of his personality and how he carries himself.

 

[BatManu20]

Sometimes we forget how young these dudes are tbh

https://twitter.com/x/status/2022538150325666062

 

[Dbreiden83080]

As an NBA fan for 20+ years I’d be happy if they just scrapped the AS weekend. I haven’t had interest for over 10 years. Just announce your all stars and have a 5 day break or something and that’s that. Or just use the extra week to spread the games over and have less back to backs.

I hate to see it go completely but I agree for the most part. It seems like it’s pretty much beyond saving. Once you are coming up with all these gimmicks to try to get people interested it’s just a dead entity..