Steph, KD, Zion, Giannis, KAT, AD, and Kawhi were all out, and LeBron played less than a half. (Not to mention popular players like Westbrook, Harden, and CP3 who ain't out there either.)
The all-star game usually has 90% of the league's stars playing. It's going to have an impact when a majority of the top-10 players weren't even there by the second half.
Edit: Just look at the fan voting.
The only players with over 5 million fan votes were Bron, Giannis, KD, and Steph. Bron played 14 minutes and the rest didn't play at all.
The top 7 vote-getters in the Western Conference were LeBron, Steph, Luka, Jokic, AD, Zion, and Wiggins. Barely any of those guys played.
If the main stars that the fans like aren't even there, then the fans aren't going to watch.
The Juelz never stops.
The 2001 all star game you all love so much was actually one of the most poorly rated games ever at the time as wellNew record-low, by a wide margin, for NBA All-Star Game (link)
We tried to tell y’all this was the worst of all time era and y’all ain’t wanna believe. This what happens when you cater to fat Europeans and try to make those guys the “faces” if the league instead of black Americans, yea I said it.
It’ll only get worse from here, that mid season playoff will eventually fall irrelevant too.
This is it. People going on about "everyone plays the same" "rules" etc. Jah this is it.Steph, KD, Zion, Giannis, KAT, AD, and Kawhi were all out, and LeBron played less than a half. (Not to mention popular players like Westbrook, Harden, and CP3 who ain't out there either.)
The all-star game usually has 90% of the league's stars playing. It's going to have an impact when a majority of the top-10 players weren't even there by the second half.
Edit: Just look at the fan voting.
The only players with over 5 million fan votes were Bron, Giannis, KD, and Steph. Bron played 14 minutes and the rest didn't play at all.
The top 7 vote-getters in the Western Conference were LeBron, Steph, Luka, Jokic, AD, Zion, and Wiggins. Barely any of those guys played.
If the main stars that the fans like aren't even there, then the fans aren't going to watch.
The 2001 all star game you all love so much was actually one of the most poorly rated games ever at the time as well
the NBA on NBC post 98 and how fans treated the NBA on NBC has been retconned from history.The 2001 all star game you all love so much was actually one of the most poorly rated games ever at the time as well