No lamer than the All-Star game already is. If it motivated the players to give us a better game, then I think it would be worthwhile, but that’s a big if. If it didn’t produce a better game, then I agree it’s not a good idea.
The US players would probably care less than they already do about it. Dame's team seemed to actually care about winning last year though. Saying something is no lamer than it already is really isn't a great reason to change it.
I am vehemently against seeding teams for the playoffs as one big league but since they already mix up the teams with the draft by the top vote getter in each conference I have no problem with them just taking the top-24 players instead of 12 from each conference.
World: C: Embiid, Gobert, Jokic, Gasol, Vucevic F: Giannis, Simmons, KAT, Horford (Sabonis? Siakam?) G: Bogdanovic (pick one), Doncic, Murray (Hield? Fournier?) Starters: Embiid, Gobert, Giannis, Simmons and a shooter (Bogdanovic or Hield). Simmons is the PG, obvs.
The trouble with that approach is that nobody has any loyalty invested in either team. I don't care if LeBron's team beats Curry's team or whatever.
At least in the US, I don't think anyone will ever care who wins the game so it would be impossible to make people become loyal. I do get how the rest of the world would possibly find it more interesting.
I'm open to trying anything that has a chance of producing a better All-Star game. I don't, and won't care about it until the players do.
Not one bit. The players would care about as much as they did this summer. I'm not trying to be arrogant but seriously what does it matter? All it would do is piss off the players that were left off the All-Star team because some much less deserving player got the nod simply because they're not from the U.S. That starts to mess with contract incentives so it will never happen. This goes back to the whole USA vs Australia loss we were talking about. There is no way to get players from here to care more about meaningless exhibition games.
The All-Star game doesn't matter to me as it stands, but it may if the standard of basketball was better. Not the result, but the entertainment. I don't find it entertaining at all right now. Maybe it would matter more to players, and fans if they introduced Finals home court advantage to the winner, like the MLB used to have. But I understand why people didn't like that. Do you think that the All-Star weekend should be scrapped? I'm in favour of getting rid of it if they can't find a way to improve it (ie get players to play defence).
Nah, they shouldn't scrap it. The ratings are the highest for any sport's All-Star game in the 18-49 demographic. Why would they just get rid of it? All-Star games are stupid though. There isn't a way to make fans or players care.
Terrible turnover by Delly at the end of the 1st, that lead to a 5 point turnaround, and could cost Australia the game.
