There Is Only One Solution For The NBA All-Star Game.
“Writing Down These Feelings Has Been Over Due.”—Drake.
Somewhere Between 2007(when I Started Watching NBA Games) And The Mid-2010s, The NBA All-Star Game Kind Of Emulsified And Took On A Strange Inconsistency LIke Oil And Water. What Do I Mean? All-Star Games Are Exhibition Game Meant Soley For The Entertainment Of Fans and To Recognize The Games Best In Their Class. Players Are rewarded With Recognition Itself and Money. Just being Named To The All-Star Team Moves The Needle For Players. Playing In The Game, Itself had No Actual Value Beyond The Formality Of Calling Oneself An All-Star And Earning An Extra Couple Thousand Dollars. Any Competitive Veneers Melted Away.
The exhibition All-Star Game Morph Into Something Unrecognizable By Most basketball Fans. Nobody On Either Side Played Defense, Some Players Fully Desecrated The Traveling Rule, And AnybodyAnd Everybody Took Shoots From All Over The Court. Matter Of Fact, That Sounds Like Some Modern Day NBA Game But Only Far more Egregious.
In Returned, The NBA Change The Format. With Their Interest In Protecting The Integrity Of The Game," we've gotten to the point where everyone seemed to agree it needed to be more competitive," Silver told ESPN In 2017. The PALyers Agreeed That The GAme Channelled All Of The "Ugly" Profile Features of An NBA Game—Lackluster, Effort, Players Sitting, Etc—Into One Messy Morass. The All-Star Game Used To HAve Entertainment Value Because One Game Hosted All Of The League Top Talent In One Grand Skeptical. A Dream Lineup Of Tracy McGrady And Kobe Bryant, Going One On One, The Competitive Qualitity Wouldnt Fall Off "Glorified Pick-Up Game" Became A Problem For The NBA.
Taking Note From The NFL The NBA Competition Committee(I assume), Mortified By Ugly And Outlandish Display Of Basketball Mockery—Guys Really Showed No Interest In The Game, A Mere Formality—Made Complete Overhaul, Tearing Down The Conferences, Introducing A Captain Style Pick Up Game. The Top NBA Guys Had Major Money Rolling In From Multiple Avenues. The Days That (Former)Stars Like Carmelo Anthony focusing On Their Survival Had Passed Over The Coming Of Shoe Deals and Endorsement. "It's hard to focus on playing sports and staying off the streets when a lot of times you don't know when your next meal will come." Anthony Told The Washington Post In A Sit-Down Interview About The Book "Where Tomorrow Are Never Promisse' The 10x All-Star Wrote Cataloing His Life The Trouble Of an All-Star Game Must Of Felt Bloated. Speaking of, The NBA does, Even HAve Stars Like They Once Did. They Have Talented Players But Very Few Stand Outs. I would Dare Call Tyrese Haliburton A Fake All-Star, But He's Not A House Hold Name Outside Of Indiana And NBA Circles.
The NBA Abolished The East And West Designations, Implemented The Captains System. The Two Leading Voters Getters Would Pick Their Teams. The NBA Increase The Prize Money and Included A Charity Sponsorship. Intrigue In The Game, At Least The intrigue Of How The New system Would Work…, Still Mid. Call Me A Old Fashion Or Stickler For Tradition, But East-West Always Had The All-Star Appeal. Also, If I'm A Star Player, Say Jayson Tatum (Because We Have So much In Common), His Star Has Never Shined Better Than This Year; I Don't Want To Represent Team LeBron Or Team Giannis— Both Captains For The Second Year In A Row—I'm 'Jayson Tatum.'
If We're To Assume That's How some Players Feel—I'm Not Able To Confirm That Sentiment—That's Not To Say They Don't Value The Acclaim Of The All-Star Acclaim— Tatum Just Received His First Signature Shoe, Thats A Safe Assumption.
Only 24 Players, 4% Of The League Players, Make The All-Star, And Some ContractS of All-Star Kickers In Incentives. Many In the Media Have Raised Question About Expanding The Ballot Beyond 24, Disbanding The East Wet Pool, And Take The Best 24 Players. I Don't Mind That Some Players Get Snubbed. All Stars Are Meaningful Because They're Exclusive. The NBA Could Expand Roster Model To 13-14. The NBA Should Put A Cap On How Many All-Star Appearances A Play Can Make. Exhibition Are Created To Entertain The Fans and Give Them Spectator What They Want, But Do We Need Another LeBron Appearance. Does One Player Need Ten Or More Before We Get The Point That They're "Good" At Basketball?
How about We Give Everyone Five Straight, Then A Break Of A Year Or Two, Then They're Eligible For Another Five Straight. The NBA Can Treat The Ballot like A Presidency. No President Can Exceed a Certain Limit Of Terms Run and In office. Players Voted In against The Limitation Station Could Receive A Honorary Credit Or Acknowledgement, But They Don't Play In The Game.
The Limitations Strategy Also Increases The Chances Of Introducing Younger, Less Established Players Into The Game. Player With More To Prove Is Sure To BRING competition And Appreciation For The Opportunity, Like Kobe, who is playing for His First Time Playing.
"It Means The World To Me." Kobe Said Of His First All-Star Game In 1998.
The NBA Began Reforming The All-star Game Going Back A Decade, Starting in 2013. Inspire By The Emerging Trend Of Small balls, They Striped The Star Ballot Positions Officially Removed from The Center Position In Favor Of "front-court players." The Center Position That Long Stood As The Center Piece Of Of The League Team Building Fell Out Of Vogue All Around The League. "the definition of "center" was becoming increasingly difficult -- not to mention finding enough quality big men for whom to vote." V.P. of Basketball Operations Stu Jackson. Jackson Called The CENTER position Outdated. The NBA Treats The NBA All-Star Game Like A Failed Government Program, Continuous Revamps That Protect The Regime From Exposure To Failure The Failure To Accept The Ultimate Resolve Or Scrap The Project. Last, The NBA Had One More Adjustment To Install. In 2013 The NBA All-Star Introduced The "Elam Ending":
"Instead of playing until the clock hit zeros in the fourth quarter, the two teams of NBA stars would instead play to a final target score" (ESPN). Named After Nick Elam, A High School Math Who Witnesses The End Of A Duke Game That Left Him Challenged To Theorize Ways To Create A More Satisfying Basketball Experience. The Strategy Essential Boils Down To Forcing Both Sides To Complete The Game If They Wish The Game To End, But That Still Needs to Solve The Problem. The All-Star Game Shouldn't Need A Solution. Playing the Elam Game, That's Reasonable To Get The Players To Play For Something More If the NBA Wants an Entertaining And Competitive Game One That Fans Will Invest In The NBA Has To Increase The Stakes. The Only Way I Believe The Stakes Rose Are For The League To Make The Game Matter. "Re-Establish" The East And West Conferences And Give The Winner Home Court In The Finals. I've Read A lot Of Arguments For Abolishing Conference Entirely.
The Conferences Are Geographically Established(Duh). Not To Mention The West Has Far Stronger Competition— Not Too Mention Some Of The More Densely Populated States—Would Fair Better Than Most East Coast Team On The Fans Ballot. In California, You Might Get Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, Or Kawhi When They're Not Exactly All-Stars Right Now. The NBA Added Another Wrinkle, With The Captains Picking Their First Picks On The Night Of The Game. The Game Builds interest Leading Into The Game, But The Format Only Amplifies The Pointlessness Of The Game. Of Course, Having A Draft Generates Content And Conversation, And We All Love That Here The Game Becomes Forgettable After The First Drive By, Stand Aside dunk.
For The Game To Take The Best 24, You'd Still Have Guys Left Of The Ballot. General, But The NBA Has Shown No Qualms About "Borrowing" Or Pulling Inspiration From Other Leagues. Why Not Take Another Not From Another League, Like Baseball.
Keeping The Standard East and West And Using The Allstar Game A Space To Win Home Field. The NBA Should At Least Experiment With With The Concept. In Baseball, The Formula Started As An Experiment Back In The Mid 2000, A Way To Prop Up The Game, They Stuck With. The All-Star Game Hold The Candle For More Than A Decade From The Angels To Astros. In Most Cases, The Team
with Home Field Won, Of Course, I Think 7-3, According To Bleacher Report. Basketball And Baseball Share Few Similarities In Play. For One, It Has Very "Static" situations; Runners On 3rd Base, Whiles Basketball Has More Dynamic Situations, Down Five With 12 Secs On The Clock With Your Best Player Fouled Out. Therefore Home Court Advantage Generally Would Matters More. Going back through league history, 71% Or 53/74 teams with home-court advantage Have Gone On to win the championship. Implementing These New Standards Might Strike at The Regular Season's Value, But Having Home Court Throughout The Conference Should Spur Most Teams In The Race. The All-Star Game Usually Takes Place As With About 22, Maybe 24 Games To Go For Some Team; top Seeds are Usually Well Established By That Junction. I Can't Think Of A Perfect Solution To The NBA's All-Star Dilemma. Players Won't Want To Overexert Themselves In A Mid Season Classic Game They Don't Control That Could Determine The Finals. Some Are Injury Prone and Only See Heavy Minutes as An Opening To the Operating table. Anyone Pointing Out Injuries Doesn't Have A strong Counter Argument Injuries Happen On Any Court, At Practice, Your nExt Game OuT: Injuries aren't A credible Excuse. The Either Scrap The Game Entirely, Which Throughs Away The Entire Tradition, Or They Slot The Finals Representation Into That Spot. Last Year's Game Had The Second Lowest Ratings In League History, 6.28 million, Only Nudging Out The Year Prior; This Year's Game Faired Better.
This Year's All-Star Game Only Corroborated This Point More. They Got The Talent Selection Right. The All-Star Game Didn't Miss Curry( Out With A Leg Injury), Lebron(Who Left The Game Before The Half), Or Giannis, Who Left The Game After The First Dunk Of The Night. Virtually None Of The Team Captain Played, which, I Reeiteraite, Makes No Sense To Keep That Format. Leaving Room For The Exciting Young Players Even If Very Little Excite They GAve. Players Were Strolling Up The Court And Why Bother, With Guys Hoisting HAlf Court Bombs What Would An Offensive Set Solve? "People in the arena were bored." I Read From A Report In The Athletic. The Cheers And Screams Coming Through The Video Felt Generate, and Layers of Stands were Left Empty. The Game Felt Pointless. Other Tahn NAme Sake And Few Referential Performances. On Rebound Out Were Optionally, Defense Antentoveness Had A Time Limit. Lebron recorded A Block and At Least Feinted at The Prospect of Playing Defense On A Jayson Tatum Dunk Attempt.
Jayson Tatum 55 Points Felt Like Sparkling Water, Fancy Nothingness. Admittedly Tatum is One Of The Better All-Star performances, Just Some Impressive Buckets But Some Fans Found The Appeal ZOf One Player Exercising His Will Over The Game Shot Selection Unpalatable.
"Next time, let the fans know in advance that one player is gonna Chuck up 55 shots with no defense and save us a watch," Said One Fan On Twitter.
The Game Itself Might Hurt the Prestige Of Earning An All-Star Ballot. Coaches And Players May Shy Away From The Results Of The Game "I don't know how much notoriety we would want to get from this. This was a glorified layup line." said Boston Celtic's Jaylen Brown. "Stars" Like Nikola Jokic Didn't Even Want To Play Despite Injecting Himself Unto Team LeBron.
I’m A Duke Fan, And I Never Thought Tatum Would Become The Best Player In The League At Only 25(in March). Whether Defender Play Intently Or Otherwise, Tatum Has That Kind Of Game. But The Game. The NBA Made A Point To Reduce The Amount 200 Point Game But 184-175 Points Aren't Quite The Bench Marks. Besides Tatum, We Got A lot of Deep Damage From Dame Lillard, The Three-Point Contest Winner, Who Kept A Heady Clip Of Deep Barrages For The Game.
I Didn't Pick Lillard To WinnThe Competition; I Though My Country Man, Buddy Hield, Would Get The "W," But Dame Found The Hot Hand. The Two Deep Shots Only Made Liilard More Lethal. The All-Star Game Always Bring A Fair Amount Of Repetitive Dunks. Nothing Compares To What Mac McLung Showed Out On On Saturday. McClung Put On A Impressive Display Of Stature Compressed Athleticism.
Despite Only Recently Getting Signed To An active NBA Roster, McClung seems To Perform The Only Dunks Of Relevance Amongst The Group. After His Back Board Double Pump, The Night Already Swung In His Favor. The Rest Of The Competition Didn't Live Up To The Billing Of the Competition. We're Over Due to Getting LeBron To Join In The Dunk Contest. He Has Nothing To Lose At This Point; whatever He Does Will Add Intrigue To The Weekend. You Could Have He Versus Zion(If Available, And That's A Big "If"). I Know Ja Morant Said He Wouldn't Test The Competition. Regardless Saturday Night Lacked a Certain Celebrity. The All-Star Game Lacks Celebrity Entirely, But More Than Celebrity All-Star Lacks Competition.
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Baseball Has Since Discontinued The All-Star Game Determining The World Series Home Field, And Returned To The Best Record Model. The Plyers Uniion Usually Holds The Upper Hand In Bargaining Agreement With The Clubs, So One Can Infer The Players Vetoed The Approach. Nevertheless, That Experimental Approach Drew Interest To The Waning Interest In Their All-Star Game
