DoughMama77

Nah luka don’t roll like that. He’ll do it on his main cause making another account is too much work😆

Might have to make a new account “TheEuropean77”

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I just reinstalled it and loaded a comp match, only to have the DPS complaining in the text chat about healing, and remembered why I left in the first place. Quickplay was nice though, and the variety of supports now available is fun

Weird. Legit just played it for hours for the first time in a while with a buddy just last night.

It’s a valid complaint but Luka is also right. This problem goes way beyond them.

It existed before either were all-stars

Why is this making it a big deal when Ben begging the stars to try hard for years

It would be a valid complaint if the serious injury rate amongst the league’s top stars were not so high. Last year was nuts.

I agree it happened before them. But as the biggest stars of the league, it falls on them to set the tone instead of falling into status quo. Wemby is definitely setting the tone, trying to shape things up. Ant also stepping up.

Edit: It happened under KD’s watch. So KD cannot escape responsibility as well.

Because the older US team was getting asked if they were going to take the games serious. KD basically responded with why are they not asking guys like Luka and Jokic (Euros) if they were going to take it serious.

Yeah I expect it’s mostly them not being from the US. As a European myself whatever I saw from the All-Star game was things like Shaq and LeBron dancing or Blake Griffin dunking over a car. Never got the impression the All-Star game itself was particularly important during the weekend.

??? Wemby & CP3 tried their best to win lol

Cause last year was a shit show produced by tnt, that made the 2 hosts that don’t even watch the games and shit on the product the main focus of the weekend. I don’t blame any of the players for not caring last year, I can’t wait for the day inside the nba goes away forever

Only way to make a Balkan dude care is when ethnicity pride is on the line or money.

The Balkans team will.fight over including Sengun or not lol.

Everyone on here just trashes the players for sitting and it’s almost never their choice. Same with the All Star Game. Most of these guys work insanely hard and they’re a huge investment for their teams. They’re not loafing except strategically. They’re not lazy, they’re part of a team and multiple businesses that rely on their health.

This league has never been under more scrutiny or given more effort and that’s where all the injuries come from. Baseball players and football players stand around. Soccer players jog. Golfers and tennis take tourneys off. Hockey games have line shifts. Even the tanking teams are running around more than they have since the 80s. And the avg player keeps getting bigger and stronger.

This criticism I hope is just whiney gamblers because it’s delusional.

I remember either last year or the year before where LeBron hurt his hand in the ASG. Laker fans were about to have a heart attack

Will love to hear Wemby’s comments on trying hard in this when he starts having knee problems

There’s a middleground between Pete Rose ending a catcher’s career at the ASG, and walking around like warm-ups. How about trying roughly as hard as a tough, competitive training session.

Didn’t Jokic just do that? The only time his guy scored was an alley oop dunk over him, which happens in normal games, he forced a deflection and hustled (the ball that went to Obama), and didn’t do any dumb shots (actually cutting hard to the rim for his only FGA).

Is the implication that Kawhi doesn’t care about basketball because he is chronically injured?

That’s an insane take. Kawhi will most likely walk with a severe limp by the time he’s 50, there’s no way that he doesn’t care very deeply about this sport lol.

Jokic absolutely cares about Basketball - you don’t win 3 mvps and not care about basketball. He simply doesn’t care about all of the extracariculars around the nba. He simply wants to compete in meaningful games.

Love all the smug “horse jokes are all fun and games until it’s time to really call him out for not caring about the game” “where are all the Jokic Stan’s now” comments like people trying to act like we should one judging a guy who is a 3x time MVP and champion based off his level of effort in the fucking all star game

This time of year is my least favorite part of the season by far, the amount of pearl clutching over the sanctity of something as stupid as the ASG and dunk contest, the media usually setting in on their doomer talking points for the year (this season being the Jazz tanking too hard I guess), it’s all so insufferable. Nobody is going to remember this shit in a week when the season starts back up and the real push for the playoffs start.

so Mikal Bridges cares the most I guess

Yep. People are just stupid and repeat what they hear

I mean, if every player was as durable as Jokic I think they’d be playing 90% of games too lol. 

Load Management exists not to please NBA players who don’t like to play, but to make sure they CAN play. Has nothing to do with the love of the game. 

Kawhi is upping his rep for the next back door publicity deal obv

The Luka-KD situation is INSANE

Not sure why fans can’t want both an all star game where players try and a shorter regular season. That seems logically consistent to me.

It will never happen because of tv contracts though.

Idk I mean all star game itself is something purely for the fans and nothing else you know and I think that’s why people appreciate it so much when the players put effort and why it stings a bit when they don’t. It’s like ‘damn these guys I watch and root for on a nightly basis and contribute to their half a billion dollar contracts don’t care enough about me to even give practice scrimmage level effort

I mean yeah, why are these players getting more money than ever to give less of a shit about the sport they’re supposed to be representing

I mean I think it’s really it’s the “best” players in the league and most people want a show. You don’t need amazing defense, think globetrotters, just some plus some incredible skill which they have. I mean shit it’s the one time a year you’re playing with a beyond stacked team like that . It should be so much fun

It does count for something though. It shows the fans that they care about us. I know that sounds corny lol but it’s true

The degree to which people start screaming and whining about the sanctity of the All Star Game every February acting like the sky is falling and the sport is doomed because the dunk contest sucks and “everything seemed so much better when I was a kid” is so annoying every year. Nobody will remember this in a week.

I legitimately thought all star games were the pinnacle of sport as a kid. Lol.

Only because it will be ran by AI brained idiots who feel like they can talk freely on something they clearly know nothing about.

literally the NBA is the thing we move on to from stuff that actually matters. 😂

While players in the NBA have been predominantly black for a long time. The two players widely considered the saviors of the NBA that brought it to relevance were Magic and Bird, a black and a white player. And if you’re talking about fans the sport had overwhelmingly white fans until it became even more mainstream in the 90s. I’m not sure where you got the idea that black people were the only ones keeping the league afloat.

And there are players/former players that have openly shown prejudice and insecurity towards foreign players. Everyone from analysts to players, coaches, scouts and front office personnel consistently undervalued foreign talent in drafts until recently.

I agree that African Americans carried the sport and almost have a right to act petty all things considered. That being said, sir have you met Draymond Green or the other half dozen players like Perkins who are clearly racists?