NBA All-Star Weekend 2025

[INFORMER]

KAT's and Herro's threes were ridiculous.

[INFORMER]

Draymond needs to calm down.

[Mori Chu]

Any thoughts on this MrBeast / Dame Lillard segment? I have never really understood his appeal at all.

[In2ition]

Not a fan at all.

[In2ition]

Draymond’s self-esteem is based on how awful he can be to other players, isn’t it?

Mr. Triple Single has spoken.

[In2ition]

So, LeBron knew all weekend that he wasn't playing and didn't want to give another player a chance to be named a replacement? Ugh

[JeremyG]

Dunn outplayed Durant...which kind of explains our season in a nutshell.

[JeremyG]

Any thoughts on this MrBeast / Dame Lillard segment? I have never really understood his appeal at all.

Have you watched his videos?

It was awesome--incredible ending. Maybe the best part of the weekend.

[The Bobster]

This is the first time I haven't watched any part of the All-Star Game since the mid-1970s. I just didn;t have any interest.

All-Star Games (basketball and baseball in particular) were much more interesting when you didn't see all of the stars in the league on television regularly. Truck Robinson was All-NBA in 1978, but he didn't get any nation exposure. Neither did players like Moses Malone, Calvin Murphy, Rudy Tomjanovich and Bob Lanier, In baseball the All-Star Game might be your only chance to see Al Kaline, Gary Carter or Cesar Cedeno. But once cable televison made more games throughout the country available, along with the eventual expansion of the playoffs and interleague play (in baseball) sightings of players like Reggie Theus, Buck Williams and World Free happened with greater frequency.

And there's the money of course. The players in All-Star games who were making maybe $20,000 were a lot more excited about picking up some extra cash by winning the All-Star Game. It's kind of hard to make a few thousand dollars sound that exciting to a player who's making $30 million a year. So from the player stanpoint there's not much reason to be invested in the game.

[Superbone]

Spoiler: show/hide

Well Green was wrong. The Rising Stars gave the eventual winners a much better game than their all-star challengers. Dunn looked good out there. I noticed every game Dunn would come into the game and never leave once he was in. They put him on Steph Curry at the end too and Dunn stopped him from scoring.

[Superbone]

[Wally_West]

[Mori Chu]

It seems like there is a lot of criticism of how this years All-Star weekend went. The weird tournament format, long breaks and lot of commercials, lame entertainment segments with people like Kevin Hart, the MrBeast thing, ... KD had a few words to say about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/8xJIxqgRiM

[Superbone]

Honestly, Dunn was the only reason I had any desire to watch any of all-star weekend.

[TOO]

These dudes all make too much money to care about a game that doesn't mean anything.

[Superbone]

These dudes all make too much money to care about a game that doesn't mean anything.

Well, Dunn enjoyed it.

https://phoenixsuns.shar.estori.es/go/c ... ee-moments

[Cap]

These dudes all make too much money to care about a game that doesn't mean anything.

Well, Dunn enjoyed it.

https://phoenixsuns.shar.estori.es/go/c ... ee-moments

He played with wild abanDunn.

Sorry.

[bajanguy008]

I watched a decent amount of the Rising Stars for obvious reasons
Peeped ole fave Cam in the 3pt but he was waayyy off and McClung has shown that he is entertaining

Didn't care much for Sunday, watched the Rising Stars again to see if they would make the OGs play hard and they did alright.
The person who surprised me with the "too kool for skool' was Amen who I figured would be one for sure locked in and hustling.

Anyways the TV was still on as background noise and felt like I was seeing Kevin Hart all the time but now the reviews are all saying that they were a million stoppages.
Oh well, weekend continues to struggle

My thing tho that crossed my mind is has the injured players process changed.
Bron and Ant casually saying on the day they not playing is how it was always done ??
I know you would hear rumblings of who carrying a lil injury so maybe just have a cameo For the Fans. The whole if it was a real game he would play normal minutes thing but to not even suit up is interesting

[Superbone]

LeBron didn't tell anybody because he didn't want his all-star streak broken. Lame.

[Cap]

LeBron didn't tell anybody because he didn't want his all-star streak broken. Lame.

Another way of saying that is "He wanted to play if he could." Sounds less lame that way.

If he always knew he wasn't going to play, he always knew the streak would be broken, so there'd have been no advantage to him in keeping it secret.