Erratic415
Superstar
Most people criticism about the ASG and the modern product are rooted in nostalgia. People only remember the highlights and the good moments. The ASG and Dunk contest was never great every year.
Another thing is the media and former players have spent the last 15 years tearing down the modern product and its players. So it was only natural that the fans did the same thing. The media spent years saying only rings matter now they get mad when players move accordingly.
Idiots wanna blame Bron for everything cause he’s an easy scapegoat. People need to stop comparing everything to Kobe and Jordan. Let the game move beyond them. What’s the point of doing the dunk contest when people are just gonna say someone from the past did it better?
I always remembered All-Star games as a kid as the games where they decided to play defense maybe a couple times in the entire half.
My uncle would always better over in the over/under every year. The 88’ one in Chicago went over with about 5 seconds left in the game.
The slam dunk contests were fun and had more star names, but they were repetitive. There’s only so many dunks someone can do, and they would have 3 rounds. So you would see the same dunks a lot.
Nique was in about 5 contests, so you saw him do the windmills (one handed and two handed) so many times. Same with the two handed reverse dunk. MJ pretty much did the same dunks in the 3 contests he was in. He would add a little more style to the FT line dunks each year though, and I don’t think he had the kiss the rim dunk the first time.
