Revamping the NBA All-Star Game for Peak Competitive Excitement
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 To the Eastern Conference All-Stars,
00:08 you scored the most points.
00:11 Well, congratulations.
00:14 [LAUGHTER]
00:16 I mean, it is really--
00:19 it's a real problem.
00:21 They have got to do something.
00:23 They've got to be better.
00:24 They've got to do something creative here.
00:28 And I think it's-- let's be honest.
00:31 This guy came up at the end-season tournament
00:33 and paid the winners, paid players to win.
00:39 There was an incentive.
00:41 There was cash on the table.
00:43 There is no money involved in the All-Star weekend.
00:47 I have said repeatedly that players don't even want to go.
00:51 They would rather go to Cabo.
00:52 They would rather go spend five days with their family
00:56 and sleep or go on a little mini three or four day trip
01:01 somewhere with their family or just get away
01:05 with all the injuries and all the grind
01:07 that it is of the NBA season.
01:09 And the ones that have to go, all the superstars
01:12 that have to go, they don't want to go.
01:14 And they say they want to go.
01:16 They're lying.
01:17 They aren't paid.
01:19 And these guys, they want to be paid literally
01:22 for an autograph.
01:24 They want to be paid for a selfie.
01:26 They want to be paid to smile.
01:29 They want to be paid to show up, to do anything.
01:33 So I think they've got to make it a tournament where
01:38 like the in-game, in-season tournament that they had
01:42 for money--
01:42 I think the All-Star game should be US versus the world
01:45 for like a giant sum of money that's
01:47 split amongst the winning side.
01:50 And the losers get nothing.
01:52 I think that that would--
01:54 so it should definitely be one team gets it all.
01:57 The other team gets nothing.
01:59 And I guarantee you that you will see the hardest played
02:03 All-Star game you've ever seen in your life.
02:05 No one wants to lose and get nothing ever in anything,
02:09 in any sport ever.
02:10 I don't care what it is.
02:11 If one side gets money, the other doesn't,
02:13 the team that loses will want to go drink whiskey and bite
02:17 the glass.
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