2024 NBA Season

[OgNasty]

The big guys are running things so far in the skills competition.  It's always fascinating why that happens.  I'm guessing size gives you an advantage on the drills, but if you put a defender in to the mix things would be changed quite a bit.  Nevertheless, I'm expecting Chris Paul to rise to the occasion and try to get himself another award.  Glad this All Star experience is on TNT.  Great to see Ernie and the gang handling the festivities. 

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[ingiltere]

Domantas Sabonis won the skills challenge. Luka Doncic and Chris Paul couldn't make the final even though they only played one round, lol. Sabonis and Vucevic played final round and they both were terrible at the last 3-pt line. Sabonis made the point only in 4th try.

Now in 3-points contest Stephen Curry tries his chance 7th time, he has only 1 win (in 2015). Why would they let him make appearance for 7 time though? Looks like terrible marketing to me.

[Fredomago]

Domantas Sabonis won the skills challenge. Luka Doncic and Chris Paul couldn't make the final even though they only played one round, lol. Sabonis and Vucevic played final round and they both were terrible at the last 3-pt line. Sabonis made the point only in 4th try.

Now in 3-points contest Stephen Curry tries his chance 7th time, he has only 1 win (in 2015). Why would they let him make appearance for 7 time though? Looks like terrible marketing to me.

Fans respect him as one of those legit outside shooter and even he's appearance rises up to this level many still continue to support him. My 2 cents of mind.

By the way here's the result as he (Curry) won he's second 3-points all-star shoot out title.

[ingiltere]

NBA All-Star Winner
Team LeBron - 4 (100%)
Team Durant - 0 (0%)
Total Voters: 4

I closed the poll, thanks to other three voters. Only 4 votes and all of them goes for Team LeBron.
The game just started. We will see Slam Dunk Contest in half time. Match is not that exciting until now, too many missed shots and dunks. Hopefully it will be better in second half.

[SammyBiG]

All star 2021... So many moments 😎 halfway through
LeBron's dazzling dunks, of course Giannis too and then the guys in their early 20s Zion and Tatum🤗.
Curry's 2 logo 3's between the TA in the ALL STARS, Curry with the alley and Cp3 doing the same right afterwards 🤤. The Chef and Dame showed us some half court 3's. C'mon it's got to be 2021.

[yazher]

Domantas Sabonis won the skills challenge. Luka Doncic and Chris Paul couldn't make the final even though they only played one round, lol. Sabonis and Vucevic played final round and they both were terrible at the last 3-pt line. Sabonis made the point only in 4th try.

Now in 3-points contest Stephen Curry tries his chance 7th time, he has only 1 win (in 2015). Why would they let him make appearance for 7 time though? Looks like terrible marketing to me.

Stephen Curry won the 3-points contest today and that would give him another title. That was a close match in the final round with Conley. Steph 28 points to beat Conley’s 27 in the final round.

[xzone]

Damian Lillard calls game from halfcourt! It was amazing MVP became Giannis, he deserved it by not missing any shots.

Allstar game was literally the summary of recent years, like a show match made up of three-pointers. The fact that everyone on the field is shooting three points shows the development of the NBA But the dunk contest was the worst contest of recent years, I would like to see better ones. I just like Simons 360-degree two-handed jam.

I would like to watch a match with more dunk and more alley oops. I do not like the game ending by reaching the determined number in the last quarter, the difference was already too much. The winner of the match was clear before the quarter started

[danherbias07]

Damian Lillard calls game from halfcourt! It was amazing MVP became Giannis, he deserved it by not missing any shots.

Steph tried it but missed. Lillard won't though because its Dame Time.  
I will be more glad if these two guys really made their peace together.
https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1368779072793411587?s=20


I love how Jokic is having fun with Giannis.
Fooling around and even giving up the All-Star MVP trophy to Jokic for fun.  

[gagux123]

Well, the AllStar Game was more or less what was expected, an interesting game with several 3-point shoots.

Now, something that I was disappointed was with the Slam Dunk Contest, it seems that every year the level is getting worse.  
Guys, what did you think of this slam dunk contest?

[rhomelmabini]

Well, the AllStar Game was more or less what was expected, an interesting game with several 3-point shoots.

Now, something that I was disappointed was with the Slam Dunk Contest, it seems that every year the level is getting worse.  
Guys, what did you think of this slam dunk contest?

I think it stops with the Gordon and LaVine competition and from that onwards it gets kinda boring, hope they could get any flavors now for the dunk contest maybe by modifying it, well, the 3-point contest just been modified.

[SammyBiG]

Damian Lillard calls game from halfcourt! It was amazing MVP became Giannis, he deserved it by not missing any shots.

Allstar game was literally the summary of recent years, like a show match made up of three-pointers. The fact that everyone on the field is shooting three points shows the development of the NBA But the dunk contest was the worst contest of recent years, I would like to see better ones. I just like Simons 360-degree two-handed jam.

I would like to watch a match with more dunk and more alley oops. I do not like the game ending by reaching the determined number in the last quarter, the difference was already too much. The winner of the match was clear before the quarter started

I knew Giannis will be the mvp of the game, dude was consistent... 3's, dunks... 16/16

[akirasendo17]

Well, the AllStar Game was more or less what was expected, an interesting game with several 3-point shoots.

Now, something that I was disappointed was with the Slam Dunk Contest, it seems that every year the level is getting worse.  
Guys, what did you think of this slam dunk contest?

I think it stops with the Gordon and LaVine competition and from that onwards it gets kinda boring, hope they could get any flavors now for the dunk contest maybe by modifying it, well, the 3-point contest just been modified.

yea today slamdunk is so boring, actually, Lavine and Gordon are also a bit boring but good, then all are just less explosive dunks and unknown players there is no excitement on watching because you know they can't put much force to jam the ball, kinda disappoint why LeBron never join the slamdunk, I guess he will never participate, even though they are taunting him to join.

[Ziskinberg]

Well, the AllStar Game was more or less what was expected, an interesting game with several 3-point shoots.

Now, something that I was disappointed was with the Slam Dunk Contest, it seems that every year the level is getting worse.  
Guys, what did you think of this slam dunk contest?

I think it stops with the Gordon and LaVine competition and from that onwards it gets kinda boring, hope they could get any flavors now for the dunk contest maybe by modifying it, well, the 3-point contest just been modified.

yea today slamdunk is so boring, actually, Lavine and Gordon are also a bit boring but good, then all are just less explosive dunks and unknown players there is no excitement on watching because you know they can't put much force to jam the ball, kinda disappoint why LeBron never join the slamdunk, I guess he will never participate, even though they are taunting him to join.

Lebron feels he is old enough, give that chance to the young fellas. Why did you say it's boring? Damn, I have not watch the highlights yet but with what you said it made me interested. I forgot about the schedule of the 3 point shooting contest, skills challenge and slam dunk, I only manage to watch the all star game and Team Lebron is just too much for an Embiid less Team Durant.

[Finestream]

Good luck for Blake Griffin, hopefully he will bring success to the team, it's his chance to also win a championship as Nets are filled with superstars.

Blake Griffin set to play for Brooklyn Nets for remainder of season

BLAKE Griffin is set to join the star-studded Brooklyn Nets on a veteran’s minimum.

The six-time All-Star quickly found a new home after agreeing to a contract buyout with the Detroit Pistons two days ago.

The 31-year-old Griffin boosts the support crew of the Brooklyn squad being led by James Harden and Kyrie Irving, with Kevin Durant out due to injury.

[arwin100]

Good luck for Blake Griffin, hopefully he will bring success to the team, it's his chance to also win a championship as Nets are filled with superstars.

Blake Griffin set to play for Brooklyn Nets for remainder of season

BLAKE Griffin is set to join the star-studded Brooklyn Nets on a veteran’s minimum.

The six-time All-Star quickly found a new home after agreeing to a contract buyout with the Detroit Pistons two days ago.

The 31-year-old Griffin boosts the support crew of the Brooklyn squad being led by James Harden and Kyrie Irving, with Kevin Durant out due to injury.

Brooklyn got 4 headed monster now and for Griffins addition to the team it makes them look more scarier, I'm sure many teams are now seeing this addition as a big problem to them since imagine if those 4 star played together in the court they could out scored any their opponent since brooklyn big4  can score + griffin can also contribute on defensive ends.

[yazher]

Good luck for Blake Griffin, hopefully he will bring success to the team, it's his chance to also win a championship as Nets are filled with superstars.

Blake Griffin set to play for Brooklyn Nets for remainder of season

BLAKE Griffin is set to join the star-studded Brooklyn Nets on a veteran’s minimum.

The six-time All-Star quickly found a new home after agreeing to a contract buyout with the Detroit Pistons two days ago.

The 31-year-old Griffin boosts the support crew of the Brooklyn squad being led by James Harden and Kyrie Irving, with Kevin Durant out due to injury.

Honestly, this is their chance with James Harden and the others who haven't get NBA championship from their past team. If they failed to climb up to the NBA finals and become a champion, then that would be hard for them in the upcoming years of their careers to get to the Finals again. Before that, they need to beat every team in the eastern conference which is so far on their best this season especially Knicks and 76sers who don't give any easy win to them. 2021 NBA playoffs will be something like we've never seen before match-up now that NBA All-Star is finished, every team will take the game seriously than they are before.

[Reid]

1/3 with my picks from All-Star.
Curry was amazing. I really thought he was going to lose that against Conley.
That last shot made me shiver.  

Dunk contest though is not that much fun. Maybe we are expecting too much from those high flyers and every trick had been repeated already.
Maybe next year something better will come up.

Skills? Sabonis deserve that win after being a runner-up last year.

[stadus]

Good luck for Blake Griffin, hopefully he will bring success to the team, it's his chance to also win a championship as Nets are filled with superstars.

Blake Griffin set to play for Brooklyn Nets for remainder of season

BLAKE Griffin is set to join the star-studded Brooklyn Nets on a veteran’s minimum.

The six-time All-Star quickly found a new home after agreeing to a contract buyout with the Detroit Pistons two days ago.

The 31-year-old Griffin boosts the support crew of the Brooklyn squad being led by James Harden and Kyrie Irving, with Kevin Durant out due to injury.

Brooklyn got 4 headed monster now and for Griffins addition to the team it makes them look more scarier, I'm sure many teams are now seeing this addition as a big problem to them since imagine if those 4 star played together in the court they could out scored any their opponent since brooklyn big4  can score + griffin can also contribute on defensive ends.

At the current status of Griffin I think he is not as good as before.

Blake griffin is a monster who can score every night but his stats are going down, especially this season.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/g/griffbl01.html

From over 20+ PPG average during his prime, he only average 12 points this season.

[OgNasty]

I think Steph and Giannis were the big winners from all star weekend. Giannis for his perfect fg% game and Steph for his long range bombs and winning the 3 point contest. I thought the dunk contest could have been more exciting but I liked the halftime format. Zion and LeBron both disappointed a little.

[blockman]

I think Steph and Giannis were the big winners from all star weekend. Giannis for his perfect fg% game and Steph for his long range bombs and winning the 3 point contest. I thought the dunk contest could have been more exciting but I liked the halftime format. Zion and LeBron both disappointed a little.

I agree with Steph. That funny 3 point turn around shot, got the attention of the crowd. Not that much of a highlight but that really took the attention of everyone.
Btw,
Griffin is on Nets.
(https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31024080/blake-griffin-agrees-deal-brooklyn-nets)