The crown jewel of the Association’s All-Star weekend isn’t the Sprite dunk contest, or the 3-pt shootout, or even that massively retarded skills competition. The crown jewel is the game filled with the best players in the world. Unlike the MLB’s All Star game which features the best baseball players in America and not the world, and the NFL’s All-Pro game which features the best players that opted to play in the game, the NBA All-Star game sports the BEST athletes in their sport.
I appreciated DWAYNE WADE and LeBRON JAMES full court games. They passed, played great defense and played above the rim. It was a shame that the game was boiling down to free throws and a last second heave by CARMELO ANTHONY to finally decide what was a spectacular showcase from some of the league’s best backcourt players. There were great perfomances from forwards like JAMES, ANTHONY, CHRIS BOSH, DIRK NOWITZKI and KEVIN DURANT, but the game was in the hands of the guards and DWAYNE WADE and Utah’s DERON WILLIAMS didn’t disappoint me.
The Association’s partnership with Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones for their gala weekend was a bit annoying to me but I also imagined how desperate Jerry Jones must have been to put some bodies into his multi-billion dollar Texas taxpayer albatross seeing as to how the Cowboy’s had their postseason dreams cut short. Playing an exhibition game under a ginormous steel cave must have seemed like a good idea to someone in the league office. In my opinion tho’, less is more when cagers are concerned. Let the futbol games be played in front of 100K people. The B-ball games need a more intimate gathering [ll].
Where’s the game going down next year? I’ma see if we can get Dontrevius Wenters a ticket to All-Star weekend…
