All-Star weekend observations

[Gargamel]

Except he wanted to miss the game but under league rules he would have to miss LA's next game as well.

I sometimes wonder if he doesn't like our team. I wish he would be more explicit about it in his sig maybe. Piksi a side already, man.

 

[uolj]

Arnold looks like he had a botox shot an hour before the game

Does he ever close his mouth? I think that's the cause of all the bees dying... they fly by the governor and get stuck in his open mouth.

 

[piksi]

Piksi a side already, man.

it is more complicated than that

 

[chrisnu]

Ray Allen is money; he's always been money. I think he deserved the MVP tonight. He was the shot in the arm the East needed to pull it out.

 

[acisking]

Actually it's Kobe's call. He could have stayed home and let someone else take the spot but noooooooooo. Couldn't miss the opportunity to bask in the adulation of his myriad of fans.

Blaming Byron Scott for this is like blaming Jason Kidd for the trade not going down.

Sorry VF, you're wrong. According to ESPN, Kobe wanted to miss the game but because he played in the last game he had to at least show up or he would be suspended from the first game after the break. Now if he wasn't going to play in the next game anyway he could have skipped today but he's planning on suiting up for the next game, so he had to play today. It is a rule to ensure that players don't skip the game.

 

[Elise10]

Ac is right:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/allstar2008/news/story?id=3246576

Not just for the adulation of the All-Star game alone, really so he can get the glory of having to have played the rest of the season, playoffs and Olympics hurt. His idea is to only have surgery on his pinkie after that. I understand the whole "I'm gonna help my team as best as I can while injured" angle but what if surgery's unavoidable if it gets messed up further


But I do agree, the West uniforms did remind me of the Kings gold jerseys, and the East looked like a darker blue of the Kings retro baby blue jerseys before the gold ones.

 

[VF21]

Okay, I'll concede the point about him having to show up... with great reluctance, of course.

 

[piksi]

Okay, I'll concede the point about him having to show up... with great reluctance, of course.

not me

 

[Variant]

I don't want to see Kobe get hurt... he better be on the Olympic team this summer.

 

[hardware_failure]

The actual all-star game kinda sucked this year. Oh well.

I liked Rash-weed shooting from beyond the arc with his left hand.

Im glad Nash made an idiot out of Craig Seger by using his ugly hankie. Its no wonder so many players hate this guy, for example he was basically asking Dirk to get fined for commenting on the Kidd trade.