Well now entering the second half of the NBA season, I would like to just take a moment to look back at All-Star Weekend. The Friday night events were pretty cool starting with Kevin Hart winning the celebrity all-star game. It makes for an interesting event to see some of your favorite music artist, actors and entertainers of all kinds come out and put their skills or lack there of, on display. The BBVA Rising Stars Challenge has become the second best event of the weekend. Young players look to come out and show out in the event as they want to make a statement with this game. Kyrie Irving and Brandon Knight battled a little, including the two moves that Kyrie did to put Brandon Knight on the floor!! Its pretty much becoming a drag on Saturday nights. None of the stars have nerve to get into the dunk contest, afraid that their little image will be tarnished if they enter and lose. Diva's!!! The dunk contest used to be Saturday nights's highlight or the highlight of the whole weekend for that matter.
This year's dunk contest made for a good nap! Though Terrance Ross is a great in game dunker and didn't do bad in the contest, the overall strength of this year's event was super weak!I believe there should be a requirement for both All-Star rosters to send at least 2 guys per team, to the event and then fill in the other two spots with other guys. Either that, or add a 1-on-1 competition that includes at least 8 All-Stars...single elimination.
Lastly sunday night's show down....the NBA All-Star game itself. I mean...it is what it is. The guys don't play much defense mostly and aren't really competing to win at all. Chris Paul was solid, taking home the game's MVP. It was cool to see all that talent on the floor at one time anyway though. There was one thing that did stick out though.....with all the Jordan/Kobe/Lebron comparisons go around, it seemed as if it may have effected the fourth qtr of this game a bit. Late in the last qtr of the game Kobe clearly went out of his way to match up against Lebron and pull out his defensive straps. Not only that but it seemed as if when LeBron noticed that Kobe was deliberately D-ing up he made it a point to try to get aggressive on the offensive end. Kobe, with out speaking a word, called LeBron out and challenged him and the result was, at least for that period of that game, gave a glimpse of what we may really be missing.....Lebron isn't the COMPETITOR of a Kobe or a Jordan. Lebron was held ineffective when Kobe locked in on him and was visibly bothered by the defensive aggressiveness of Kobe or the challenge all together.
Sets the stage for an up coming post from Hoopz Nation Basketball, "The Great Debate" that breaks down and zooms in to the convo of who's better overall/who's the King of the mountain and if some people don't even legitimately deserve to be in the convo....
CHECK OUT KYRIE'S ANKLE BREAKING PLAYS On B KNIGHT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5CglhyZfWY
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