The Dunk contest was kinda mid, but the games were actually enjoyable. I’m genuinely pleased with how much fun I had watching ³⁄₄ games today.

I still think they need to tweak all star game format, Maybe add a fourth team from the rising stars(the winner). It is kinda insane that one team is forced to play 3 straight games while a team is waiting for them in the championship game. They could also tweak the dunk contest but overall there is some progress.

Also make the tickets cheaper for the fans.

I love Ant winning the MVP.

But I came away from this game really appreciating Book, Cade, and Scotty.

Cade, in particular, is going to win this MVP soon.

ASG format change was great!

Jokic and Luka should be embarrassed about their effort today, but nobody will criticize them of course.

So seeing Jason Williams in the celebrity ASG gave me an idea. The NBA needs an alumni game. The NHL has one and it works pretty well, its somewhat competitive but toned back (no one wants to see some old tiner getting split in half by a check), but its kinda a nostalgia thing where you get to see past plauers go out and have some fun playingvwith old teammates, rivals and players of other generations.

You’d probably need to do some sort of faster sub rule though. It works in hockey because of the line changes so older players can go off for rests and everyone gets more time to play, but that would be a tweak the nba would need to solve i guess.

Solid weekend with great 3p contest and improved ASG, next year let’s not have the fuckin 3p contest start at like 3pm that was crazy work, 3p contest been the best even for years now

The dunk contest might have been one of the worst I’ve ever seen. But the rest of the weekend was fantastic

Get rid of the dunk contest and this weekend would be a 9.²⁄₁₀

all I know is if Luka and Jokic actually cared and played, The World would kill

Some tweaks needed but a vast improvement overall imo

This was the funnest one in at least five years honestly. However I enjoy every one as I don’t take them seriously. Back to the regular season!

Sunday’s games actually saved it but 3point contest was actually fun. If it’s the rumored Steph’s “one more run” next year then might better to leave that as main event for Saturday instead of Dunk.

Wemby needs help, give Cooper Flagg Antarctic citizenship 

Jaxson Hayes’s second dunk was one of the worst dunks in dunk contest history.

So let’s just like go back to east vs west and everybody wears their team jerseys. 12 min quarters.

Just a thought

i hate my life

Can’t say this isn’t the best all star game of any sport

Overall a vast improvement from previous years. And I mean a VAST improvement.

• The celebrity game was cool. It was really cool to see Cafu there. Outside of him, White Chocolate, Tacko Fall, and Jeremy Lin, I didn’t know anyone there. And Tacko Fall was playing for an NBA contract, dropping 20 and 20, but I’m glad they edit give the MVP to him. It wouldn’t have been fair I feel. ⁷⁄₁₀.

• The T-Mobile Rookie Challenge was just…meh. I genuinely have nothing else to say about it. ⁵⁄₁₀.

• Every year, the Saturday and Sunday night event starts at 7pm. This year, it started at 5pm, which is nonsense. Many people, include in this sub, got screwed over because of this, and tuned in late.

• Usually the 3-point shootout is the second to last event. This year, it was the first event, which is different but fine. As in recent years, it was spectacular, Lillard and Booker put on an absolute show. ¹⁰⁄₁₀.

• They removed the Skills Challenge after f’ing up the original format (which worked) by changing the format every single year, which it made hard to understand every year. They need to bring this back, and return to the original format back in the 2000s and 2010s. 0/10.

• I am very glad that they brought back the Shooting Stars challenge, after removing it for many years. It was part of the original Saturday night events lineup. Even though they adjusted the format (old format was better), it was still entertaining to watch. ⁸⁄₁₀.

• The dunk contest. Where to begin? Mac McClung really saved this dunk contest. His absence is felt. Every year we hope it will be a good one, and every year (with no McClung) it disappoints. The highflying stars of today don’t want to participate, to their own shame. 0/10.

• The league f’ed up the dunk contest scoring system. The old system (0-50, 5 judges score between 0-10) worked perfectly, but they f’ed it up by limiting scores from 40-50, which is idiotic. Jaxson Hayes had one of the worst dunks in dunk contest history, and was scored better than Jace Richardson’s second dunk, which is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

• No Kenny Smith on dunk contest commentary was very noticeable. It’s just not the same when he’s absent. Although Reggie Miller was pretty good tonight.

• The All-Star Game was the best once since 2020. The players were competing, playing defense, and it was so fun to watch. Big, big props to Wemby for setting the tone early, and most of the players responded to it by matching the competitiveness and effort, especially Ant Man. As usual, Jokic’s effort was disgraceful. I’m glad KD and Ant Man called him out by name. ¹⁰⁄₁₀.

• You see, back in the 80s, 90s, 00s, early-mid 10s, the players played like this in the all-star game. Not at 100%, not even at 70%, but enough to have fun and mess around while still having some level of competition. And today, the players were playing like this. It’s a shame it came to eliminating East vs West, but this was actually fun to watch.

Overall: Game’s back.

The All Stars competed hard and nobody got injured? Can we kill that excuse going forward

KD stuff get swept under cause of All-Star weekend

ASG was the best part. The format was also confusing as hell and needs to be changed.

Send da ASG MVP trophy

Anybody got clips of when Obama spoke up?

All star game format seems to have helped but I still think to re engage fans you really need a regular game where the players try hard. It’s so crazy to me that the fix is so simple yet they can’t figure out how to get the players to try hard so they have to resort to all these other ideas.

To say this all star weekend is abysmal would be an understatement.

The new format is good, but i think it just need to be polished. Because i think it is really not good when a team went 2-0 in the round robin, and as a reward, they got to play their 3rd straight game against a rested team. .

Maybe put something in between the round robin and finals. Or i dunno if it is viable to switch the sat events and the roundrobin games

Everything was shit

new format is better

I don’t quite understand the positivity here.

IMO this might have been the worst All Star weekend in history. The Saturday “night” happening 3 hours earlier was more than enough to put a huge dent into the weekend before we even get into the specifics.

Rising stars and dunk were both bad. The new shooting stars contest was pointless - I could not have cared less who won.

The All Star game itself was same garbage different format. Some players tried a bit in the last 3-4 minutes of ³⁄₄ of the games and people are celebrating that? Come on. Defense was still a farce - most of the scores were in the 40’s which is the entire problem we’ve had for years. Anyone who thought players were trying needs to go rewatch and count how many shots were just given by non existent defense.