pskill43 | Raptors

201 | 6 hours ago

Good luck try to convince Luka and Joker to even try during the all star game. Those guys are the worst when it comes to effort

blackarchosx

48 | 6 hours ago

I dunno, if he trash talks Luka well enough and blocks him a couple times that might get him going

CounterTop196 | Mavericks

59 | 6 hours ago

theyre on the same team 😂😂

drprox

82 | 6 hours ago

The point stands…

Less-Tax5637 | Knicks

5 | 4 hours ago

Harden is the blueprint

carved_face | Raptors

9 | 5 hours ago

He’s gonna do the James harden contesting Kawhi

Akipella | Warriors

5 | 5 hours ago

^people forget that shit happens in the ASG where your own teammate contests you lol

ArmiinTamzarian | Spurs

5 | 5 hours ago

He threatens to shave his head too

Akipella | Warriors

4 | 5 hours ago

They can do that on the same team, no one will stop them lol

yuhanz | PHO

4 | 5 hours ago

Would be a harder message

hospitalizedzombie

3 | 5 hours ago

Wemby will just smack him on the head

LTIRfortheWIN | Spurs

-4 | 5 hours ago

Wemby dunking over luka will get him to play

livefreeordont | 76ers

10 | 5 hours ago

Luka might stand at half court the whole game

whatssenguntoagoblin | Alperen Sengun

4 | 4 hours ago

Luka is on the same team as Wemby

ForneauCosmique | Spurs

-1 | 5 hours ago

Then Wemby will win mvp over those guys. I know it’s just the All Star game but to him, that’s definitely a bragging right and more fuel for him to think he’s the best player in the game. I love his attitude and isn’t shying away from admitting he wants to be the best and also proving it

whatssenguntoagoblin | Alperen Sengun

8 | 4 hours ago

Wemby is on the same team as them lol. I don’t think Luka and Jokic will care they’ll just pass to Wemby and let him do his thing

ForneauCosmique | Spurs

-3 | 4 hours ago

Well like I said, it’s a bragging right to him. It just gives him more reason to believe he’s better than them. I don’t think Jokic cares but in a way, them not wanting to try to outplay him, same team or not, in his mind is him asserting his claim as the best. He wants it all

TeddyJPharough | Nuggets

-6 | 5 hours ago

“worst when it comes to effort”

Maybe they just don’t like being dancing monkeys for the camera? If you watched last year’s games, the players were straight up disrespected so the media crew could pat their own backs. These guys are already playing a grueling season and looking ahead to playoffs. I agree it would be cool if the all-star game was competitive, but the players need a real reason to bring it when everyone else gets rest days.

SC_Red | Pistons

-1 | 5 hours ago

Yeah just be a lame in front of the camera instead

TeddyJPharough | Nuggets

3 | 5 hours ago

I’m sure they care very deeply what people at home think.

SC_Red | Pistons

1 | 4 hours ago

They don’t but why are you even in this conversation then. Dancing monkeys or be lame. If they don’t care then why do you?

TeddyJPharough | Nuggets

-1 | 3 hours ago

“Dancing monkeys or be lame”

Are those really the only two options? Have you no more imagination than that? How about athletes proud to be in all-star game that respects the players competing in it?

And I’m in the conversation because I didn’t like the suggestion that they were lazy. It’s a half-assed opinion when you think anyone could become all-star calibre while being “the worst when it comes to effort”.

SC_Red | Pistons

0 | 3 hours ago

You’re the one who posed the dancing monkey assignment we’re not asking for that either. Asking for more effort like what Wemby is trying to do isn’t doing a dancing monkey. I just framed it that way because it seemed like you were convinced that was the appropriate metaphor for expecting effort.

TeddyJPharough | Nuggets

1 | an hour ago

Not all effort is dancing monkey. It’s dancing monkey when it’s for the sake of an audience because their employer tells them to, and if we’re being honest, the way the all-star game is currently ran is a little “dancing monkey”. Wemby’s comments aside, the league is basically asking players to try harder for the sake of the viewers at home instead of motivating them internally, and just because a young player challenges a few egos, doesn’t mean players are going to bite.

Like I said, I just didn’t like the suggestion that they were lazy because they didn’t like trying in the all-star game as it currently is. Clearly those guys try hard the rest of the time, and there’s nothing dancing monkey about it at all.

Kwilly462 | Nets

46 | 6 hours ago

Then it’ll still be lame, cuz it’s just one person playing hard. I love the chutzpah from Wemby, but I think the only thing to “fix” the ASG is to take it away.

You gotta make players want it again.

MrFishAndLoaves | Pelicans

26 | 6 hours ago

Jus one person, but it’s Wemby.

Historical_Aerie6175

-1 | 5 hours ago

Hahahahahaha

Call555JackChop | Suns

23 | 6 hours ago

I’m telling ya just make the losing team pay Ants child support and dudes will start ballin out

GoodKidMadCity2 | Suns

4 | 6 hours ago

Yeah if this doesn’t fix it nothing will but I do think Wemby trying to play hard has a chance to fix it

ComputerPractical748

5 | 5 hours ago

As a fan, I don’t want to see any players get hurt in the game and have it impact their/their team’s season. Just not worth it. So I don’t really care if they don’t play hard. I think they need to rethink it all together.

Stepsis24 | Lakers

-1 | 4 hours ago

This ain’t football they already play 82 games a season making it 83 isn’t having a substantial impact on their health. Especially when they don’t even have to play more than 25 minutes.

brianpaulandaya | Thunder

5 | 3 hours ago

Except playoff teams play WAY more than 82-83 games, add that if they’re a play-in team.

Stepsis24 | Lakers

2 | 2 hours ago

Ok but is them playing one extra game really going to be the difference maker. It’s so much less of an overall offensive + defensive load to when you have a team of 4 other all stars. And it’s not like the playoffs where you have to play through slight injury, if they don’t feel healthy they can just not play.

Crafty-Border-7452

2 | 2 hours ago

Dumb take

RiloAlDente | Spurs

2 | 6 hours ago

The day that All Star MVPs and All Star wins actually mean something to the players playing is the day that players will give a shit about the All Star game.

WhiteHeterosexualGuy | Hawks

2 | 5 hours ago

Ehh, I think it’ll be kind of awesome if he is trying really hard and other guys don’t. It will just reflect poorly on everyone else and the other team isn’t going to get a free lane to dunk every possession like what we’ve seen for years. Will be entertaining imo.

CrEdLover

1 | 4 hours ago

He’ll be the only one not lame

nejithegenius | Pistons

1 | an hour ago

Waay to much money for them to do that even though your totally right about the game. I seriously have no idea how to fix it at this point. Money to the winning teams charity doesn’t matter(they could collectively donate 20x that amount win or lose) winning in general doesn’t matter, idk. Maybe they should take a few years off like they did with the dunk contest.

lanman33

-1 | 5 hours ago

Nah these guys are competitive. If Wemby goes out there and gives 100%, it’s going to rub off

EightBlocked | NBA

3 | 3 hours ago

why didnt it rub off before?

heat_fan_ | Raptors

32 | 6 hours ago

1 guy playing with heart all 4 others lazy lol

JoshuaCastleBooks

18 | 6 hours ago

I’ll never do it again. The last time I played with heart I got all these strange looks and stupid questions from my teammates. Things like:

“WTF is that?”

“Is that a real heart?”

“Did you kill somebody?”

_4D4M

13 | 6 hours ago

If one side starts embarrassing the other, things could get spicy.

BackshotsOnUrDaughtr

7 | 6 hours ago

the anti-Lebron

preddevils6 | Grizzlies

52 | 6 hours ago

Lebron at least put effort in during stretches of certain all star games. Jokic and Luka are the two worst about phoning it in

BackshotsOnUrDaughtr

32 | 6 hours ago

these white Europeans are LAZY immigrants

DoYouEvenLifto

4 | 5 hours ago

STEALING the jobs from Americans.

WhiteHeterosexualGuy | Hawks

5 | 5 hours ago

Lebron also has a 23 year career and the culture of the all-star game wasn’t like it is today for a lot of that. He’s also the one player that could give real effort and peer pressure the rest of the guys to play harder, but he has not done so.

Crafty-Border-7452

3 | 2 hours ago

He’s 41 and can barely make it through the season at this point. He couldn’t even make it through the off-season without fucking sciatica. You really want him to d up Tyrese Maxey like he’s Kobe?

CazOnReddit | Raptors

6 | 6 hours ago

LaWemby

LovetheNBA23 | Lakers

2 | 6 hours ago

LeBron tried in AS games which is why he actually has AS MVPs. Steph just lays on the floor all goofy.

Akipella | Warriors

1 | 5 hours ago

Steph, the guy with 50 points in the ASG and 2 ASG MVPs? Average Lakers flair holy shit

CrEdLover

1 | 4 hours ago

Scoring 50 in all-star is nothing today. Someone wins MVP every year. Even when no one tries. What a dumb ass argument

Akipella | Warriors

1 | 4 hours ago

LeBron tried in AS games which is why he actually has AS MVPs. Steph just

It’s like you didn’t even read the comment I replied to holy shit

BackshotsOnUrDaughtr

2 | 6 hours ago

Steph is one of the few reasons All-Star Game is even remotely watchable

single handidly turned the 3pt contest into the premier event too

CrEdLover

5 | 4 hours ago

You kids don’t know shit lmao

Kryptos33

0 | 6 hours ago

Your tag checks out. No basis in reality.

Neatojuancheeto | Warriors

2 | 5 hours ago

Steph has an all star game MVP. And the laying down was hilarious.

Akipella | Warriors

2 | 5 hours ago

He has two of them, he won it last year remember?

Dantheman12310 | Lakers

2 | 5 hours ago

Last year is a bad example, not because he played bad, but because it wasn’t that much of a game

Like his 1st MVP is an extremely entertaining 50 points spread throughout the game & didn’t feel like chucking for chucking’s sake. His 2nd MVP is just 20 points total, possibly 12 points if voters were solely looking at the final game for the award.

It’s no fault to him though because how limiting the format is (although I think there was some report that he gave the ok to the shitty format to Adam Silver but I’ll give him the benefit by assuming he just said a simple “sure” because Silver got addicted to tournaments & it’d happen regardless)

Little_Sherbet5775

1 | 3 hours ago

He only really won it because it was “at home” and he was the crowd favorite so he chucked a lot. No real effort from anyone except wemby and maybe kyrie.

Akipella | Warriors

0 | 2 hours ago

Lol sure

Little_Sherbet5775

0 | an hour ago

Everyone kinda knew that. I like steph and all, but it was kinda obvious he was taking shots for the crowd and to please them by being the focal point.

Akipella | Warriors

1 | an hour ago

LeBron tried in AS games which is why he actually has AS MVPs. Steph just

CrEdLover

2 | 4 hours ago

The laying down play is an example of the bullshit era of all-star. Steph started making the all-star game in the era when they said fuck it. He’s never really been in the ones that were partly competitive and not tampered with by bullshit rule changes

Neatojuancheeto | Warriors

1 | 3 hours ago

Oh shut up it was over way before that. Giannis was the only one going 100% in that game and he kept barreling at Steph like a full back and dunking it hard as fuck. A 6’2” point guard trying to stop a full speed Giannis alone under the rim and risking injury in an all star game would’ve been almost as dumb as you’re being.

So he entertained instead and made people laugh. But the all star game was a joke a years before that.

Akipella | Warriors

1 | 2 hours ago

Steph wouldn’t contest a Giannis dunk even if it was a RS game

CrEdLover

1 | 4 hours ago

How long have you been watching basketball. If LeBron is your example for this you’re an idiot

lukaisthegoatx

-15 | 6 hours ago

Fuck lebron for real. Lazy ass mfer these days.

guidethyhandd | Timberwolves

2 | 5 hours ago

If anyone has the right to be a lazy mf these days it’s the 41 year old who’s played over half of his life in the league

Born_Arrival_2869

12 | 6 hours ago

Wemby’s “hard” play will be like his “ethical” flop the other day 😆

AshenSacrifice | Clippers

2 | 5 hours ago

Lots of try hard players flop

Born_Arrival_2869

4 | 4 hours ago

They don’t preach though. Apparently Wemby thinks that he’s a saint now. Don’t you know that he plays “ethical” basketball.

McKnightmare24 | Lakers

9 | 5 hours ago

I want Wemby to stand in the paint all game long and block every shot that goes up. I want defense in my All-star game god dammit!

yuhanz | PHO

1 | 5 hours ago

Until they just keep on chucking threes

Philipthesquid | Timberwolves

5 | 5 hours ago

Fuck it Wemby drop 100 in the All star game

Beautiful-Ability-69

2 | 6 hours ago

I love this guy! Bring back the fire to the NBA please

dabomtitan

0 | 5 hours ago

Why are people downvoting??? 😂😂😂😂

Beautiful-Ability-69

1 | 2 hours ago

I don’t even know, but Wemby is bringing back the heat to the MNBA…😂

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1 | 6 hours ago

Ethical flops x 2

SnacksGPT | Supersonics

3 | 4 hours ago

It’s about to be Vic vs. Cade.

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1 | 6 hours ago

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morbidwhaler | Spurs

1 | 5 hours ago

*comprehension not compression, but your point still stands.

Necessary_Initial350 | Bucks

1 | 5 hours ago

Giannis is a guy that at least at one time had the same approach to the All-Star game iirc. Wemby could definitely bring it back out of him if they’re sharing the court and he’s playing hard.

Jokic and Luka are probably the most apathetic All-Stars I’ve ever seen tho, so it kinda balances out.

opkpopfanboyv3

1 | 5 hours ago

Sometimes I wonder if this is a generational thing? Like, most of us weren’t really taught to enjoy things or be competitive abt it.

Ok-Tree4365

1 | 5 hours ago

I’ve heard that one before

giant-papel

1 | 5 hours ago

He’s going to have to wait for the next generation of players, unfortunately

EchoBay | Raptors

1 | 5 hours ago

Based off the starters, I think the only ones I would guarantee would give effort are Wemby, Giannis and Brown. After that, there’s a few others who might follow their lead, and people like Luka or Jokic who won’t give a single fuck.

darthdarticus

1 | 5 hours ago

He’s gonna be benched if he tries too hard, be careful Wemby.

Zigxy | Pacers Bandwagon

1 | 5 hours ago

I bet Steph is down to go at least 95%

sharktoothscavenger

1 | 5 hours ago

Love wemby. I think the only way to fix it though, is cash incentives for the winning team.

TonkaHeroDreamCake | Supersonics

1 | 4 hours ago

A man of the people.

guacdoc24 | Lakers

1 | 3 hours ago

He should just call out the American players and say international players will save the all star game just like they’re saving the NBA lol

JeramiGrantsTomb | Thunder

1 | 3 hours ago

Wemby is going to be trying to post up, and just watch Luka chuck 20 threes.

Alientongue

1 | 2 hours ago

Good hopefully this works all star games have been garbage for awhile now.

udontknowball31 | Thunder

1 | an hour ago

Bro YOU shouldn’t be playing hard, don’t risk injury in a meaningless game.

Sparrow_LAL | Lakers

-1 | 6 hours ago

Should add a cash prize that goes to each player (non all stars too) of the winning side’s teams which are represented.

Then the stars have a reason to try, as even a little money for the 12th man on the bench of your team means something

Electronic_Gold_3666 | Knicks

5 | 5 hours ago

They’re the richest of the already high-salary NBA players, I don’t know how money-motivated they are

Sparrow_LAL | Lakers

0 | 5 hours ago

That’s why I’m saying that all players receive the money.

Ie: Luka/LeBron motivated to win for their Lakers teammates who aren’t all stars and don’t have large contracts.

Same for each team represented by the all stars.

Old_Supermarket_7575 | Thunder

-2 | 5 hours ago

Luka don’t even try to play defense in the finals he ain’t doing it in the all star game

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-3 | 6 hours ago

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Neatojuancheeto | Warriors

-2 | 5 hours ago

Yeah doesn’t seem smart lol.

BurningMansions

-3 | 5 hours ago

They are probably not gonna call flopping in an all star game.

Victor Wembanyamama has a message to the All-Star players, “..if they don’t play hard, I’ll do it without them.”