2020 asg was amazing.

Wasn’t it moreso they would turn up the intensity in the 4th quarter? And the first 3 quarters wouldn’t be a joke but just not full speed yet

I’m not sure I ever cared about intensity. They used to do more trick plays, dunks, and fun passing stuff, now they just jog between 3pt lines and jack up awful shots that apparently only Curry can hit at more than a 10% clip. It’s just boring.

The 4th quarters in the 2000s were usually pretty damn good too, so like others are saying, KD watched the wrong part of the game to get an idea.

Why just the first?

They replayed the ‘01 all star game on nba tv the other night. Idk what KD was watching bc those guys were playing a game of competitive basketball compared to the slop these players give us these days. I get it, they are all filthy rich now and don’t be bother with shit like the all star game, but don’t lie to us, we know the product used to be watchable.

I watched the All star games in the 80s-90s and they were rarely competitive. No defence, lots of trick shots. People have short memories.

We always hear about the Dream Team practice game being the best level of basketball ever played. Why can’t the all star game be that? 🤷‍♂️

Nobody said it was game 7. But it at least emulated a game of basketball.

I’ve never heard anyone say we need more 1st quarters like back in the day

it was never as intense as a game 7, but why would you watch the first quarters instead of the fourth quarters?

2020 first 3 quarters were a solid mix of trying and having fun. And then the 4th quarter we had Kyle Lowry taking charges like it was game 7 of the nba finals

I’ve reviewed all of Durant’s first quarters and I feel like he’s overrated and not clutch.

This generation of players are so fucking sensitive it’s ridiculous

Ant with the adlibs killed me lmao

They might need a podcast

I just did what kd said he did and I completely disagree with him..

Is he trolling?

See for yourself. Here’s clips from the 93 all star game, and not just the last few minutes. It’s a night and day difference. https://youtu.be/VAEuIJIv6v4?si=1dQSaOL2i0uyBOPz

Just the title of this is annoying as shit. I can never tell if Durant is being clever by only watching the 1st quarters or stupid because he is both smart enough to be clever and silly enough to be stupid.

The entire thing that all the ‘old guys’ talk about is that the game started out half-ass and sort of fun - shaq taking 3 pointers, guys moving out of the way so others can dunk safely. Then as the game progressed it would get more serious as the team that was losing in the 3rd would start caring before the team in the lead.

Then they would famously play competitive ends of games.

this guy watched the FIRST QUARTER. He couldn’t have missed the point more. Unless his point was to troll the ‘old guard’ who pretends the game used to be harder than today… in which case it was perfect.

Note: this is from the perspective of a guy who started watching in the 90s and is very much more inclined towards the modern style NBA than the ‘tough’ NBA.

I’ve watched the 1st quarter of every one of KDs games, how he won MVP is another wonder of the world

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I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $1000

He’s lying lol. Those games were so much better. Just own how relatively soft it is now. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Dislike this whole conversation. The NBA doesn’t need the All Star game to be great. Do a ranking of the best All star game across American sports leagues, then do a ranking of most successful American sport leagues. Those rankings are opposite.

As a fan I just want these guys to rest and come back stronger in the second half. We see them play plenty and I would argue too much, we don’t need an All star game anymore. At one point the league needed it to get unknown players on screens they would never otherwise be on but now its fine if it dies.

KD is just full of shit man. I get it, he’s trying to stick it to the old heads who always clown on the newer generation but he’s just as delusional as they are.

Who judges all star games based on the FIRST quarter??

Everyone knows the intensity in those games really ratched up in quarters 2-4

Me when I lie to support my worldview 

This is the first generation of superstars to reverse the popularity of basketball and we are worse for it.

Don’t want to play in the All Star Game, don’t want to play the Christmas games, don’t want to play anywhere close to 82 games, don’t want to play back to backs, they don’t want to do anything!

I’ve been watching ASGs for 40 years… He’s right they’ve never been played with any kind of intensity.

Same guy that joined a historically great Warriors team because things were too competitive to win a championship somewhere else.

KD is trying to gaslight us. I mean, those old games weren’t playoff intensity, but he played in ASGs with Kobe Bryant.

The 2000s all-star game was more experimenting 1 v 1. I remember shaq taking guys off the dribble.. AI Kobe tmac and Vince doing and1 dribble moves.

Defense was still half speed but it wasn’t wide open lanes.

He’s right 

I don’t know why people are so hellbent on acting like the game now isn’t less competitive. The early games weren’t extremely competitive and they’ve managed to make the game now even less competitive than that. it’s funny because when I think of fun/ competitive (in a relaxed sense) all-star games I think of the 2000s. No one is saying they are picking up full court, but once in a while they’d pick up the intensity. Or atleast there would be a couple of guys who clearly wanted to win All-Star MVP. Now, jogging on defense would likely be an improvement over what we’ve seen lately. It doesn’t matter to me if they don’t wanna try, but I don’t know why we gotta act like we all aren’t seeing it.

KD is a whiny bitch

This is how you know KD is full of shit.

Man I watched the very beginning of The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, and Shutter Island but don’t understand why people thought they were good. 

He should watch the 4th quarters. They got after it back then

I remember being in elementary school and we’d talk about the all star game like it was the fucking Super Bowl. I can’t remember the last good asg game

All Star weekend is way more about gathering all the players in one spot than it is about any game or single event. So the NBA should capitalize on that more. Like hey we have all these dudes together rn, let’s do photos and fan-oriented events. Make it NBA Con/Fest.

Top tier hater doing his research

Watch the 4th quarter dweeb

Wow, cracked the code. Ignore the ratings, ignore the players straight up telling you they think the all star game is an inconvenience to their poor multi millionaire lives… It’s just haters. Wow. Great insight. Way to be accountable. Just shut up and watch

🤦‍♂️

KD is full of it

Ant with the ah ah like a young sibling. 

That’s kinda weird. Why not watch the whole games instead of a single quarter? Bad research before coming to a conclusion.

It’s annoying when people say things like “why would a player risk an injury going 100 percent in an All Star game Lol”

But, I guarantee that most people aren’t asking players to go 100 percent, as we just want some type of decent effort. Stick with ur man, contest shots and layups, consistently run the floor, put on a show if you’re physically able to (for example, crossovers, dunking, etc.) and try towards the end of the game. I was watching the 2006 All Star game that was posted on YouTube two days ago, and I was actually impressed. While they weren’t going 100 percent, guys put in some type of effort on both offense and defense during various points throughout the game, did some cool things on offense, and then tried really hard during the last quarter to win the game.

Also, it’s really unfortunate that one of the leagues rising young stars (Anthony Edwards) openly admits that he doesn’t care about the All Star Game. I know people get on Adam Silver for “ruining the game”, but it’s on the players to make the event matter. I just think it’s disrespectful to the fans.

“1st quarter”

It’s fuck Kevin Durant to this very day he embodies everything wrong with the league today

KD a bum

maybe watch the 4th quarters dipshit

Why is Durant so bitter ?

KD either lying or watching with his eyes closed

“Yeah, we don’t care. But no one else did”

• guy who made 450 million in his career

Just cancel the dumb game and move on, clearly it’s unpopular with most

Lies?

There go KD being intellectually dishonest again. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Funny how he only watched the 1st quarter and made this assessment, how convenient. lol

I know you in here KD…how about you watch the 2nd half or better yet THE WHOLE GAME then make that assessment.

Why wouldn’t you watch the final quarter of every all star game, that’s when the try harding would happen to win

😂😂😂 KD is funny af

Who is that dude that grabs Ant’s arm and whispers to him? I’d like to think that’s his social media manager or something lol

Why is Ant there staring at KD like he was planning on saying something and KD staring back like he is expecting something. Anything to do with the tweets the do back and forth?

I’m really looking forward to all the “how to fix the ASG” & “the ASG sucks so bad” threads tonight.

This is funny because you absolutely know no one else in that room has even considered watching those games and nobody can clap back at KD

God I hope Team USA gets smacked. Pleaseeeee Team World.

Ant: it is what it is

The all star game has never really mattered. The dunk contest used to matter

Just read a book this week people

Why 1st quarter and not the 4th??

Guys he’s talking shit lol do people really not understand what they’ve been trying to do with KD making all these comments

KD is the best!

realistically, only way we’re getting back to “competitive” All Star games is if wemby just start talking mad shit while he’s out there this year. you need a wemby or a SGA out there talking shit for it to really work. otherwise everyone’s too nice to each other now and they all slack off. You need a dude that’s good, talking shit for it to really work.

Durant is such a liar

KD is a professional troll

It’s not meant to be competitive. Its a money making machine with overpaid athletes letting their egos run rampant. Its a game where they just entertain their fans, that’s why some humbled athletes don’t fit in. Kevin Durant is using his platform to voice his opposition and he is in it for money, not because he thinks it is a waste of time. Calling out Jokic and Doncic was classless, because wait for it !, they are white and shouldn’t fit in with Lebron or Curry. Any white athletes saying this would be shunned by the NBA.

It’s always been a scrimmage

Fans just want to see the level of an offseason pickup or practice w refs. These players are more than capable of doing that and past generations have done that. No one goes hard but they play through. They are playing it like the last run of the night when everyone is done or the completion isn’t at their level

I still remember Magic Johsnons last All Star game, he put on a show and it wasn’t a close score but it was a way to showcase him one last time. Fade away 3 to end the game truly magical for a young fan like me to watch Magic do his thing. I guess I just the old days when the guys seemed to do more of everything not just chuck up 3s.

He watched the wrong quarters lmao

Just cancel it. You have the players outright telling you they can’t be bothered to care.

It was supposed to be for the fans, but the stars can’t even do the dunk contest anymore. Just scrap the whole weekend and let the players rest.

He’s making a straw man argument. It wasn’t a playoff game, and the intensity was obviously lower than a normal game. But even so, the intensity and pace were enough to balance a great offensive spectacle without it looking like a circus like it does now.

I’m so tired if All Star Weekend discourse. It’s never been good basketball. No one ever cared about the game. If you want to watch then watch and if not then don’t.

Durants got reddit brain. Yes, the all star games weren’t always high intensity affairs, particularly in the first quarter. They also used to be much more watchable than the slop they’ve chosen to roll out in the past 5-10 years.

Just use the MTV rock n jock format at this point.

he’s right

There have been GREAT AS games, but usually not so much

The old head generation just hates this new era of players - bitter about the money

KD says this as if he wasn’t on the floor for the 2013 All-Star Game where Kobe picked up LeBron full court for like seven minutes straight.

wemby will save it, watch. no player wants to be embarrassed and if they don’t match his intensity they will look kinda foolish

Can’t speak going back to the 70’s but I’ve been a die hard fan since the late 80’s and they always loafed it. In the 90’s when I was actually started watching closely I can tell you no defense was played.

Can’t wait until we all see how hideous/atrocious the game is, and see what this dickhead has to say about it.

He’s such a child.

If the game was close in the fourth, you saw players lock in a bit more. That’s why I liked the ELAM ending. Once players got an idea of what score was needed they played a bit harder

They should just make it an NBA Jam tournament in real life. Players make pairs, there’s an all-star tournament (for money maybe), and the rules are changed to make it more theatrical: spots on the court lit up worth different points, fireworks off the backboard during dunks, other crazy shit. That would keep me entertained for 10 years at least.

Throw in a gaming tournament with the players on an SNES

The difference in the past was, guys tried to put on a show and had more resistance. You didn’t just come down take a 100 3s, ppl didn’t just cleared the paint if u wanted to dunk. It still looked like a basketball game. You had guys going 1 on 1 for possessions and that was fun, guys actually made nice dunks in the game. There was just more showmanship. I don’t want to see a 100 3s taken in the all star game, that’s not fun.

Definitely thought bro next to Ant was sitting down…… 😂

Just have an nba all star twam vs a euro league all star team The nba players will actually have to try then Or theyll be embarrassed

Wrong answers only

What did the guy with the backpack and glasses whisper to Ant?

Ant watching his hero up there

What about the 4th Quarter?

2006 (Houston) was incredible.

The ‘03 All-Star Game (MJ’s last one) went into overtime.

2001 was the Eastern Conference comeback game.

2002 & 2004 are the games that T-Mac had the self alley-oop.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. -KD

Kevin the all star game always being bad isn’t the flex you think it is.

KD is a strange one. Previous generations of players give him his props because he can play, is practically unguardable, and started before the 3pt era began. And sometimes he’s praising and differential to the previous generations.

He’s a quiet guy so when he speaks, it sounds profound. But when he talks, his comments are a backhand to those generations and fans. He’s also not held in high relevance to the players or the fans of today. He isnt given his props because he’s overshadowed by Lebron and Steph.

His legacy will be all over the place.

It was really good back in the day. Not like this trash today

All star games always suck. Who would go hard and risk injury for a game that doesn’t count? No one.

When was the last time you saw an nba game get intense in the first quarter?

We’re in the worst time in basketball history for tanking and he’s taking like that. Either he’s a moron or he’s trolling in purpose.

You need guys like kg and Kobe that go after the other stars. Now everyone’s friends

Should have watched 4th quarters. That’s when things would get going in terms of competitiveness.

Modern game apologist KD

Competition these days even half speed would destroy the competition back then.

I always thought when people talked about tough ASG its when kobe played