One of these years Shaedon Sharpe needs to compete. For the love of gawd.

Kobe averaged 8 points when he entered Lavine averaged 10 a young Paul George and the list goes on. I look at it as a showcase for up and comers.

georges niang snubbed

When Lavine entered in 2015 he was not known and averaged 10.1 points. It’s a good platform for new players. After he won, his stock went up. Although, mcclung is a different story. Ngl, I certainly don’t care for him, so maybe he devalued it. I had high hopes for buzelis last year. I’m still watching this year and root for the newbies. They gotta start somewhere. Also, last year barely anyone knew who Stephon castle was when he played in the rising stars, and now he’s a favorite. No offense, but the last headline I wanna see is… lebron wins dunk contest as a 40 year old.

Don’t blame the players who are actually participating, blame the stars too scared to compete, blame LeBron for lay out the blueprint of star opting out.

And the three time defending champ would bring the average down

When is the last time a star in their prime has competed? It has always been roleplayers with bounce and young guys who enter. The older stars have always been rarer.

Regardless did people not enjoy castle last year?

I mean Mac has averaged 0 points in the NBA proper if we go by this metric and everyone was fine with it.

This is on the players, nothing the league can do except just cancel the event altogether. It’s just too hard to innovate in the space.

this is the sum of their averages

Okay? It’s the dunk contest

We need to see Luka throwing lobs from like the upper deck

just cancel the entire weekend

has anyone considered that its an antiquated concept? theres nothing new to be explored. any stars participating in it would just be set up

Ok

LOL 1k a seat to watch a bunch of randos perform some assuredly mid dunks.

The fact Bron never did it is the biggest crime

I only know Hayes cause he a laker, those other dudes…dont know them. All star weekend was must see tv once, now it’s…I watch the clips of it the next day.

I’d rather have an AI produced rematch between Aaron Gordon and Zach Lavine.

Cancel All-Star Weekend permanently and give the time to the players to rest and recover.

How many dunks did they average this isn’t a scoring contest

Easy solution:

Add winning the dunk contest to the Rose Rule criteria.

Every young star would participate.

Obviously do it for the 3 point contest too.

When the most recognizable name is a back up center you got problems with the event. Might as well just bring in those professional dunkers to put on a show and forget this. 

Crazy. Just end the contest or open it up to amateurs so we can have an actual contest

Is Jalen duren not in it?

I really thought Jase was gonna get more run in Orlando than he’s been getting

I’ve literally never even heard of Carter Bryant or Keshad….. Already forgot his last name because I can’t see the main post as I’m typing a reply.

People bitching about the quality of it, but imagine a star comes down wrong and breaks their ankle, you’d never hear the end of how stupid it was to have them in it.

Well Obi Toppin has been out for most of the season with a broken foot. Our new poster dunker from down under, Johnny Furphy tore his ACL last week…. It’s been a bad year for guys….

even funnier is they’re averaging under 48 total minutes per game

Jaxson Hayes should just fight a mascot for 3 minutes. It would be more entertaining.