OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA: DECEMBER 2024

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You weren’t going to watch anyway and if you did you would complain about it. Who cares.

 

compared to your constant complaints about other posters?

 

The NBA all star game has been a complete waste this century. I guess I'm for this change because it can't be any worse than the joke of games we've been watching for many years. Maybe we will see the rookie/sophomore group go all out and beat one of the vet allstar squads - that would be funny.

Still enjoy the NBA cup 10x more than any of the allstar weekend fluff as its legit NBA basketball.

 

It doesn't necessarily have to be a major change though... when they got rid of handchecking that wasn't viewed as some revolutionary change, it was just supposed to make the game faster, freer flowing, and more enjoyable. It kind of worked for awhile but over the years seems to have kept changing and now possibly gone to far.

They'll probably experiment in the Gleague with any changes before actually doing them at the NBA level.

 

Having the rookie/sophmore winner as one team should make it much more competitive. The young guys will want to beat the stars and the stars will be embarrassed to lose to them. I actually really like that dynamic.

 

Utah had the best record in the league in 2021.

 

What do you do with 24 All Stars? Some of them are sophomores/rookies but most aren’t. How would all the vets get minutes? And people have been saying they want more All Stars not less.

 

Maybe you didnt see the structure.

There will be 24 allstars same as least year. They will be split into 3 teams of 8 players and the final team is the rookie/sophmore winner. Two semifinal games then winners play the final game. All games are to 40 points.

There will now be 15 allstar starters instead of previously 10.

 

Oh interesting. Well, we’ll see how it goes. You still can’t force people to play defense. You can’t force people to care. The two All Stars teams have no incentive to win. They’d be heavily favored. Why would they want to play against the rookie/sophomore team? They’d rather avoid embarrassment than take it head on. Like the dunk contest. I think the only solution to the All Star game is to give the winning conference HCA in the Finals. That’s it. Otherwise, they won’t care.

 

How could anyone think that was a good idea.

 

Murray contract is worse, I'd want to swap that if I was the Nuggets.

Might even prefer LaVine over Porter Jr.

Jokic made an elderly Westbrook look like a respectable starter. He'd probably make LaVine look like an all-NBA player again.

 

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/43032741/adam-silver-looking-critiques-increased-3-point-volume

 

Murray is special in the postseason. You can’t give that up.

 

Very bizarre. With award shows, they usually take your trophy back from you when you get offstage and then they mail you one in a few weeks later. But this is wild.

 

So that's how that works. Thanks for the insider info.