Food For Thought After Digesting The All-Star Game
Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 at 11:46 pm by 3D in Basketball, NBA Basketball
Coming in to Sunday night’s NBA All Star game in Dallas, you will know I clearly didn’t think the game would be all too exciting for one reason: I took the under for the sake of putting something on the line. Feel free to blast me for that one, but I felt like donating the money back after I took it just as easily the previous Sunday by also betting the under in the Super Bowl. That said, here’s what I came away with from Sunday night’s show.
- It Is What It Is: Ah, my favorite saying. But seriously take the game for what it is – a showcase for the fans.  The guys out there have mad game and some of the things they do are incredible.  That is, if you can watch it with an open mind and look past the defense, or lack there of…Â
- The NBA got the halftime show right. When you are trying to reach out to millions of people in the US and over 200 countries around the world, you give those people some sexy skin. Not 60-something has beens. Take note, NFL.
- Over 200 countries saw this game? Damn this NBA thing just might be a better product than it gets credit for.
- Wade and Bron Bron put on the real Dunk Contest. I give a slight edge to Bron for his third quarter sequence. The twisting windmill dunk was as good as it gets. Â
- These guys can shoot.  Dirk came out of the gates firing away for the hometown crowd, setting the tone by ripping the net on his first two. Wish I would have seen more out of him though.Â
- It is the best all-star game out of the big 3 sports. This is by a small margin over baseball and the deciding factor is that you couldn’t field a team outside of that arena using the rest of the world’s population that could beat either team on the court. The same could be said for football, but the Pro Bowl flat out stinks and everyone knows it.Â
- Was that the same Chris Tucker that made me laugh my ass off in Rush Hour and Money Talks? It looks like he had air shot into his cheeks!
- When it came down to the guys playing 9 hard minutes at the end of the game to determine the outcome, it is basketball played at the highest level possible. Not the NBA Finals, not the Olympics, not anywhere else will you find that type of game being played.Â
- The game had all that, and more, despite the absence of basketball’s greatest player (or 2nd, depending which side the coin landed on): Kobe.Â
- Don’t tell me Kobe didn’t want to be out there with the outcome hanging in the balance as Bron and Wade were controlling the action for the East down the stretch. The West was begging for Melo, Chauncey, Dirk, Durant, or someone else to step up.
Well done, NBA. My wish for next year is to see Oden out there raising his knees to the backboard on many a dunks.
10 Responses to “Food For Thought After Digesting The All-Star Game”
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16. Feb, 2010
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Meerkat
16. Feb, 2010
I disagree! I say the MLB All-Star game is the best!
The MLB guys play defense all 9 innings instead of just 9 mins. I flipped back and forth from the NBA game to something else … every time I had the game on it just seemed like a bunch of dudes goin thru the motions waiting for somebody to do something fancy to get a library-like crowd all-into-it. I couldn’t watch.
When you have Halladay against A-Rod or Cliff Lee facing Chase Utley … all in the 2010 MLB All-Star game … nobody is changing the channel. Certainly not me.
Kinger
16. Feb, 2010
MLBs All-Star game is the best.
Every year someone in the NBAs version goes for 30, with a couple jaw-dropping dunks, alley oop passes, and steals, big deal.
It’s not every year that someone like Pedro comes in and Ks the likes of Barry Larkin, Larry Walker, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Jeff Bagwell, over 2 innings like he did in 99.
bbryan
16. Feb, 2010
It’s not every year that they actually finish the game either so they have that going for them as well.
Meerkat
16. Feb, 2010
Besides … MLB players are green … they believe in taking public transportation to the game …
PKD
16. Feb, 2010
The NBA All Star game has turned into a glorified street ball game, I can get that any day of the week watching somebody play video games.
The MLB All Star Game is still the best show on earth (except for the tie Bryan) and will continue to be so.
Batter Up
bbryan
16. Feb, 2010
The NBA is the greenest league, by far the most smokers of the hippie lettuce compared to the other leagues.
3D
16. Feb, 2010
NBA guys may only play defense for 9 minutes but they play offense the whole game AND they at least play the whole game. The same can’t be said for the MLB starters who ride the pine after the 4th inning and their 2nd at bat. Or the starting pitchers who “stretch” it out for 2 innings.
AND……………………………………..the NBA doesn’t have the dumbest rule of all the all star games: this time it counts? Or am I thinking of the rule that every team has to get a player elected? Adam Jones, Francisco Cordero, Adam Bailey to name a few.
Meerkat
16. Feb, 2010
@bbryan — the NBA has it’s smokers, MLB has the chewers … and also Jim Leyland!
@3D — Com’n the NBA had Allen Iverson and Jason Kidd on the roster!
bbryan
16. Feb, 2010
I will give the MLB this, they have the best event at an all-star game. And that includes the games themselves. I would rather watch the home-run derby than any of the games or their events.