Man, all y'all some haters. I enjoyed that s***.
The All-Star Weekend discussion thread
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KainLear
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"Which part of the All-Star weekend do you look forward to the most?"
"The part when I fly to Mexico on Sunday night."
I guess many feel the same about Salt Lake City... haha
obligatory: fan is short for fanatic.
I don't actually begrudge people who don't like these things. I just think it's weird when they expect them to look like real basketball.
I think most of us are just bummed that our player was completely frozen out of the game. And I guess the "if I get it I'm firing up a shot" mentality. I don't do that at the playground.
I didn't, either, but that's mostly because I didn't want to shoot at all. I was the guy who wanted to be Ben Wallace on the court.
KainLear
Starter
How's your afro game?
they, uh, called me the amputator.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
It was refreshing to see a game played at the old school level of half way trying that the big game used to be back in the day.
Was James Ham on the scene to ask hard hitting questions about teammates freezing him out like he always tries to stir the pot between Keegs and Coach Brown?
Because I'd actually welcome that.
Because I'd actually welcome that.
Am I crazy or is Jamal Crawford stating "all these players are 20 and under" for the rookie/sophomore (and apparently G-league) games is not meaningful in the way he thinks it is?
I haven't been able to grow hair on the top of my head since I was twenty-six, so... not great.
Did you just embrace it at that young age?
Jeeez what a bummer to go from that to a feature on Bison Dele 
I didn't have much choice; I don't have LeBron money.
When I was in LA I worked with this guy who was completely paranoid about hair loss, he had a full head of hair but was using all kinds of preventatives. He was probably younger than 26 too. But some people just say screw it, shave and look great. Another buddy from high school showed up at our 10 year reunion looking great but was wearing a hat. So didn't realise he had a horseshoe head until dinner that night.
I think I responded to that on twitter somewhere today but doesn't this actually make it more obvious what the pecking order is? Why not allow them to pick how they want as long as they ultimately select 5 starters and xx reserves from each position? Or can you pick 9 guards and then get all the forward starters?
IIRC, the guys who were voted in by the fans have to be the starters; the captains just get to pick which five they want, out of those ten.
do they have to pick by position though? so depending on how you pick your reserves, is there a strategy that could be in play?
I've heard it rumored this is all about Lauri Markkanen though.
Small update on my observation about Jamal crawford being so excited that the rookie/sophomore game featured young players 
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It's either to protect the guy on his home court from getting picked dead last or it's about protecting some starters who shouldn't even be there from getting picked after all the reserves have been selected.
Either way, by making it appear like oh the starters were just picked last but we all know they're the starters, no egos are bruised?
whitechocolate
Bench
Sounds like there are now two last-picked for each team.
also true!
Wasn't Markkanen already upgraded to a starter to take Zion's spot?
EDIT: Re-reading what you wrote, I guess you knew that already. I don't think moving the starter picks after the reserves is about helping him save face in front of his home crowd though because it basically guarantees that he will be picked last. They've always had the starters drafted separate from the reserves because otherwise there could be an uneven number on each team. Maybe it's just about saving the most exciting part of the LIVE draft until the end so they can throw in another commercial break to build anticipation or something?
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It was like that before, though: last-picked starter, and then last-picked reserve. They're just reversing the order.
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