All-Star Weekend

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Ayton taking over this Rising Stars game.
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"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.

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All-Star Weekend

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Let's put our posts about the various All-Star events in their own thread.

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Looks like Kuzma was the MVP of the Rising Stars game. Ray Allen played well in the "celebrity" (?) game. Here's ESPN's recap of the Friday festivities:

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/al ... ar-weekend

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From the reddit /r/nba. LOL.

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Anyone tuning in tonight?

Tatum won the Skills Challenge, which was entertaining. They had Dell Curry, Glen Rice, Mark Price, and Ray Allen shoot for charity. And Book showed out a bit in the 3pt contest but didn't make it out of the 1st round because Suns.

Harris and Curry just battled it out and Curry lost by a moneyball. Really impressive shooting all around.

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The 3-point contestants did quite well. Curry narrowly lost to Joe Harris. Booker didn't advance past the first round. Looked like he wasn't really warmed up or ready. Bleh.

I saw a good comment on Twitter: "Well, at least he didn't injure himself."

Another good one: "Typical. Booker starts out the contest and is quickly down by 20+."

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Not sure about this dunk contest. No real names in it. Why do they always get such nobodies doing this? Where are the veterans in their mid-to-late 20s?

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The dunk contest is terrible.

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The local boy, Bridges, couldn't even make his dunk despite repeated tries, so they gave him pity-6es and 7s. Smith Jr took about 3-4 tries and got 9s for a difficult bounce pass spinning dunk. No "wow" dunks so far.

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I did enjoy Diallo's dunk over Shaq. But overall it was a pretty "meh" dunk contest. Oh well. In retrospect that Aaron Gordon / Zach Lavine contest was really excellent and will likely be remembered for a long time.

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All-Yawn weekend. I haven't even turned on my tele.
Go Suns!

Og Snus!

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The All-Star game itself was somewhat fun. They competed pretty hard at the end. But I still don't like the "captain" concept. I want to see the West take on the East. I don't care if the two conferences are imbalanced. I don't really know who is on the "Lebron" team vs who is on the "Giannis" team, and there are no stakes.

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Agreed. The only way it makes sense is if there are no conferences to me. Then pick your teams.
Go Suns!

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This was good, though.


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To me, it only works if you have East vs West or USA vs World. There has to be some logical connection to it.
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The Bobster wrote:
Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:42 pm
To me, it only works if you have East vs West or USA vs World. There has to be some logical connection to it.
Or to suit the political climate, North vs. South.

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Left vs Right?

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Ground dwellers vs. Surface dwellers
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Muggles vs (Washington) Wizards!

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