Asking Blazer fans to watch the All Star Game is like asking the one girl who wasn't invited to the prom to watch marathons of Mean Girls and Carrie all night long. And then cry her self to sleep while listening to the song "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl.)"
In my lifetime....maybe 24 or 25....over 6 decades mind you...my soda counting has probably been lacking
I usually skip the All-Star game. It was more fun 30 or 40 years ago. Excerpts from: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...fluff-lincicome-spt-0219-20170218-column.html the best of these things remains the baseball affair...played the way actual baseball games are played. The NBA game, or the NHL game, or even the worst of the bunch, the NFL waltz and giggle, are awards shows without tuxedos...phony...preening and posing and showing off...peacock flash and flaunt, or to use the official judging criteria, "artistic ability, imagination, body flow and fan response," reducing real games to figure skating. The question of who has the hardest shot in hockey or who can dribble quickest around traffic cones seldom inspires a bar bet, never mind a bar fight...doing what they would be benched for doing in a regular NBA game..."skills competitions"...admit that the sport itself is too dull to keep the attention of an audience...the circus, where showing off against phantoms draws greater hoots and hollers than real competition. Whether it is home-run hitting or throwing a football for accuracy or slap shooting or bounce passing...This sort of scam always has been the business of figure skating and gymnastics, in which prizes are awarded for doing the same thing over and over, the only judgment being whether it was done better this time than the last time... With all of these exhibitions of football, hockey and basketball staged so near to each other, maybe one solution is to do them all at the same time, in the same place — have NBA players try to dribble on ice, or hockey players try to jump, never mind dunk, in the bulky laundry they wear, or football players try to hit a 3-pointer wearing skates...ESPN would create a network for it.
I am in it for CJ. I might watch the game for a bit, just to check out any potential MVP player drama, though I doubt there will be any. Media tends to blow these types of things WAY out of proportion compared to how the players actually feel. If there is one thing the media will really assumptions run the gambit is players feelings on these very types of things. More I think about it I will have headphones on mixing music. Fuck the game.
1988 was the pinnacle. It has been all downhill ever since. That was Jordan vs Wilkins in the dunk contest finals. That was Larry Bird walking off with the finger twist left up in the air not even watching his last shot go in to win the 3pt contest. And the game? They played defense in the second half. Can you believe it? I watched it a month or two back . Was awesome!
Last night? Crap, I was out. He do good? He has the makings to go full on ESPN when his BB career is done.
Gotta earn that contract some how right? BS he isn't wearing a Blazer Jersey or something to at least help pay for that contract......
Yeah but provided what he is getting vs giving, he should be in a full on Blazer jumpsuit looking like Ramblin Rod with all the pins and Blazer decor on him...
