You Can Find Me Indy Club Shay Shay | 2024 NBA All Star Weekend Thread | Feb. 16-18

[Po pimp]

Stephen A had a good idea for the slam dunk contest.

Let the players sponsor a dunker off the street and offer like a million to the winner.

The best dunkers arent in the NBA anyway, might be a way to revitalize the event and give some unknown guys an opportunity at the same time.

That idea SUCKS. We want to see more stars in the dunk contest. No one wants to watch these no name professional dunkers.

 

[In The Zone '98]

Stephen A had a good idea for the slam dunk contest.

Let the players sponsor a dunker off the street and offer like a million to the winner.

The best dunkers arent in the NBA anyway, might be a way to revitalize the event and give some unknown guys an opportunity at the same time.

If NBA players don't want to participate in events that promote the league. Cancel the events.

 

[K.Y.R.I.E]

For your own mental health do not watch the game next year. its gonna be the same thing as the past 10 years with dudes chilling on the court giving little effort.

If you do decide to watch even with pre knowledge of what it's gonna be like then I know that you all just like to complain about shyt

These guys are not gonna start going hard in an exhibition game just to appease some hardcore fans lol

 

[El Bombi]

Ì don't get why people are complaining about this

The asg is a meaningless game where the players can just have fun and chill with other players in the league

You want them to risk injury for a game that doesn't matter?

The nba has a lot of issues right now but players joking around in the all star game isn't one of them

This

People are really having a pissing contest over these leagues All-Star Games.

And the Sports Media will make an big deal out of anything. Just to have something to talk about and to garner ratings.

 

[El Bombi]

For your own mental health do not watch the game next year. its gonna be the same thing as the past 10 years with dudes chilling on the court giving little effort.

If you do decide to watch even with pre knowledge of what it's gonna be like then I know that you all just like to complain about shyt

These guys are not gonna start going hard in an exhibition game just to appease some hardcore fans lol

It's basically this with these people.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Turn it into an opportunity to earn life changing money for guys who can actually dunk.

They wanna make that then make the league or the G-league. It's not the leagues responsibility to make some random off the street some bank. Why should the NBA care about the streets? And TBH with you, the mf winning ain't gonna have some life changing dough like you think. If NBA athletes can go broke after making 9-figures, what you think someone winning $100k gonna do?

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

What's going on here? I'm out the loop.

 

[Primetime21]

Doesn’t JJ ‘defender all of things in the modern nba’ Redikk know its just a meaningless game and guys aint trying to get hurt?

 

[jerzboy]

What's going on here? I'm out the loop.

Same lol

 

[jetflyinglimousineriding]

You can't call it an NBA dunk contest when NBA players don't compete in it. Turn it into an opportunity to earn life changing money for guys who can actually dunk.

If u REALLY open this up to the streets for real money ain't no cac winning this shyt. It'd be real competition, I think it could work. I'd watch that over this bullshyt we got now, at least that white boy wanted to compete

That's fine, but do that during the summer. I never get why people throw out this idea that this concept of non-NBA dunkers should occur during NBA all-star weekend.

 

[CrimsonTider]

For your own mental health do not watch the game next year. its gonna be the same thing as the past 10 years with dudes chilling on the court giving little effort.

If you do decide to watch even with pre knowledge of what it's gonna be like then I know that you all just like to complain about shyt

These guys are not gonna start going hard in an exhibition game just to appease some hardcore fans lol

They don’t go hard in the real games either

 

[cartierhoe]

I remember a lot of LeBron stans were trying to label Kobe a "try hard" after this game:


No doubt some of that rubbed off on this current generation. Now look.

I remember maybe Giannis’ first or second appearance in the all star game you could tell the other guys were looking at him weird because he was playing like it was game 7 in the Finals. All these dudes be on that too cool for school shyt.

 

[cartierhoe]

The thing is cats from the 2000's and 2010's were making bank too but they still wanted to compete.

I don't know how else to make people care about the game.

It ain't about giving anyone incentives to. You either want to or not.

This too, I’m not really sure what the league can do. You can’t really make guys try hard if they want to be on some too cool for school shyt. It’s kind of embarrassing to be going harder in the summer runs than the NBA showcase of the best of the best in the game, but I digress.

 

[JoelB]

What's going on here? I'm out the loop.

PG and Book dont fukk with each other...PG got into a back and forth with Cam Payne a few years back and Booker got in the middle of them and popped back at PG.

another game Booker hits PG with a hard foul, PG shoves him and gets a Tech

Last year Klay and Booker went back and forth bc Book was cookin him, and Klay put up the 4 fingers as a response. Klay goes on PG podcast and is asked what was the best trash talk he's done on the court. Booker took that as PG fishing for Klay to shyt on him with the 4 rings/finger gesture

etc


It's basically nothing serious, but there is always subtle jabs taken at each other. Now they both in the same place and Steph is looking like to see if something would happen but Book and PG just ignored each other

 

[IIVI]

This too, I’m not really sure what the league can do. You can’t really make guys try hard if they want to be on some too cool for school shyt. It’s kind of embarrassing to be going harder in the summer runs than the NBA showcase of the best of the best in the game, but I digress.

Yeah, like some people have brought up here I think you really need to have a player or two in the All-Star game to really bring up that intensity now.

NBA should buy a bunch of celebrities seats at the All-Star game.
Coaches when selecting the bench players need to pull in two-way players or defenders like Dillon Brooks.
Let them be the villain on that All-Star court pulling up the heat and trying to shut down these cats right in front of some celebrity they trying to impress.

Then you hope the competition will step up then and it doesn't become a "we all just trying to have fun this weekend, it's not that serious" thing.

All-Star games in the past had players like a Gary Payton, Tim Duncan, KG, Jason Kidd, etc. who really cared about defense. They don't know how to play basketball without playing defense. You tell them not to play defense and they'll look at you crazy. That was probably Giannis earlier as well.