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re: Should they limit the all star rosters?

Posted on 2/18/24 at 5:24 pm to
Posted by 2DayWuzAGoodDay2
Member since Jun 2018
217 posts
Posted on 2/18/24 at 5:24 pm to
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Pelicans players didn't deserve it


Wouldn't have been a bad time to finally get CJ an Allstar appearance... May not have the best stats, but certainly Allstar worthy, and easily justified by the Pels being in 6th place.
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
63658 posts
Posted on 2/18/24 at 8:17 pm to
Makes no difference to me, but I get your point.
Posted by bonethug0180
Avondale
Member since Jul 2018
4351 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 2:12 am to
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Shaq and Kobe would never be the 9th seed


Don't really care about any other arguments here, but this is spot on.

Pretty garbage that the "goat" has been fighting for a play in spot the last couple of years, especially with the "great" big man AD.

Standards are so much lower these days for who is the goat.
Posted by bonethug0180
Avondale
Member since Jul 2018
4351 posts
Posted on 2/19/24 at 2:15 am to
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considering how competitive they used to be.


I very much remember those 90s and even early 2000s all star games. They very much were about pride and certain guys would bot let anyone phone it in.

Today's players soft as frick.
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
63658 posts
Posted on 2/20/24 at 12:33 pm to
I never watch allstar games in any sport. They’re meaningless and boring.
Posted by shel311
McKinney, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
111148 posts
Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:12 pm to
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I very much remember those 90s and even early 2000s all star games. They very much were about pride and certain guys would bot let anyone phone it in.

Today's players soft as frick.
Yep

Whether it's the All Star game, playing 82 regular season games, or the elite dudes doing the dunk contest...they used to care to do it, now they don't.

The amount of complaints we're seeing shows the fans certainly still care about those things, so the players priorities are no longer aligned with the fans, and that's not good for the league.

And when it comes to the All Star game, if we want to be very technical(someone can correct me if I'm wrong) but this shite is sponsored and a shite ton of money is coming in for All Star weekend, which I can only assume is part of basketball related income, right? Meaning, players are being paid portions of the money for the All Star game so coming out and giving zero effort is BS that you can't complete write off as, "well, it's just a meaningless game." You're getting paid to do it. You did NOT have to go, you could have turned it down. The dudes in the past went out and played hard. Hell, they put on a hell of a show just 4 years ago with the "Kobe" All star game, so the dudes now can do it, again, they just don't want to do their job they're being paid for that they agreed to do.

There is no legit excuse for what we're seeing, just none. If they don't care, let's scrap the entire weekend, lose the sponsor money, and that money get taken out of the pot that goes to the players and let's just be done with it.
Posted by Epic Cajun
Lafayette, LA
Member since Feb 2013
32741 posts
Posted on 2/20/24 at 1:18 pm to
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Whether it's the All Star game, playing 82 regular season games, or the elite dudes doing the dunk contest...they used to care to do it, now they don't.

The amount of complaints we're seeing shows the fans certainly still care about those things, so the players priorities are no longer aligned with the fans, and that's not good for the league.

The players are under the impression that they make millions of dollars because they are good at basketball. They don't, they make millions of dollars because fans care that they are good at basketball.
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