All-Star Weekend

[JeremyG]

Ayton taking over this Rising Stars game.

[JeremyG]

[Mori Chu]

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

[Mori Chu]

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

[Mori Chu]

From the reddit /r/nba. LOL.

[ShelC]

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.

[Mori Chu]

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+."

[Mori Chu]

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?

[ShelC]

The dunk contest is terrible.

[Mori Chu]

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.

[Mori Chu]

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.

[carey]

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

[Mori Chu]

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.

[carey]

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

[Mori Chu]

This was good, though.

[The Bobster]

To me, it only works if you have East vs West or USA vs World. There has to be some logical connection to it.

[Cap]

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.

[Mori Chu]

Left vs Right?

[In2ition]

Ground dwellers vs. Surface dwellers

[Mori Chu]

Muggles vs (Washington) Wizards!