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Disinterest in NBA All-Star Weekend: Morency's Personal View
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2/15/2025
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00:00
I can't get into this NBA All-Star weekend at all.
00:06
I mean, literally at all.
00:08
I know they got their celebrity game.
00:11
I looked at the rosters.
00:12
I knew, like, two people.
00:15
Then they have this rising stars game.
00:18
Like, with that great hockey going on,
00:21
and I know it's not going on tonight,
00:24
I still can't get into that NBA weekend stuff.
00:29
It's just completely, uh, I'm uninterested.
00:34
I have not one lick of interest in any of it.
00:36
Like, that stupid celebrity game,
00:38
the rising stars games, any of it.
00:41
I can't get into it.
00:42
All I care about,
00:43
swear to God, is that hockey game tomorrow night,
00:45
and it's not till tomorrow night,
00:46
so I'm, like, I'm tripping.
00:49
I'm going to watch Indiana play tonight, UCLA.
00:52
I'm not watching that NBA stuff.
00:55
You know, growing up,
00:57
I've always been a big All-Star game fan.
00:59
Like, I love the Major League Baseball All-Star game,
01:02
the NBA All-Star game.
01:04
I went to Kobe's last All-Star game,
01:06
and it was epic, right?
01:08
And you had players trying.
01:09
The slam dunk contest that was in Toronto
01:11
was maybe the last good one, Scott.
01:13
Remember with Aaron Gordon and Zach Levine?
01:17
It was, like, epic, right?
01:19
They were jumping over, like, mascots
01:21
and, like, you know, 360s,
01:23
and it was like a battle.
01:25
It was like a street rap battle.
01:28
It was epic.
01:29
I was thinking about this,
01:30
and I tweeted about this this morning, Scott.
01:32
I almost think that, like, you know,
01:33
that was the last good All-Star game
01:35
when, like, Kobe was there,
01:37
like, because there was sort of an expectation, a level.
01:41
Remember in the old days, Scott,
01:43
and not even, I'm not even saying not old,
01:44
but, like, 15 years ago, even,
01:47
dude, like, it was, like,
01:48
I remember, like, Russell Westbrook
01:49
gunning for the MVP, you know what I'm saying?
01:52
Like, I remember, like, Michael Jordan in the old days.
01:54
No, no, this is, you know,
01:55
I'm the best, and we're playing against the best.
01:57
I'm gonna be the best.
01:58
Like, it was a thing.
01:59
It was like, no, no, I'm gonna be the NBA All-Star game MVP
02:02
because I'm a badass.
02:04
Like, if you look at, like, the list of players,
02:07
and the players over the years
02:08
just care less and less and less and less and less,
02:11
and you and I grew up watching Dr. J
02:15
and Dominique Wilkins and, you know, and Michael Jordan.
02:20
Like, guys, Michael Jordan
02:21
participated in the Slam Dunk Contest, right?
02:25
Vince Carter made his career off it.
02:27
Vince Carter never won a title in his career.
02:29
Hell, Vince Carter won very few playoff series
02:31
in his career.
02:32
Like, what did Vince Carter do in his life, right?
02:36
You know, he's known as a dunker, right, as a dunker.
02:41
And the modern era, no thanks to McClung,
02:44
no thanks to McClung and these guys, Scott.
02:46
You want people to pay?
02:48
You want me to pay 1,400 bucks or 1,800 bucks
02:51
to get in the building to watch a TV guy dunk the ball?
02:54
Like, what are we doing here?
02:55
Like, Adam Silver, all these other commissioners
02:57
get ripped all the time.
02:59
Like, the NBA All-Star Weekend is an effing joke.
03:02
I'm with you.
03:03
I used to, like, bet $2,000 on the over
03:05
and, oh, I can't wait for the old Magic Johnson
03:08
versus Isaiah Thomas and Pitt.
03:10
They're all there.
03:11
Now, it's like, whatever, bro.
03:14
And then they make it even confusing.
03:16
And you know what?
03:17
All right, Chuck, Kenny, and these guys,
03:19
they do a good job on the show, Scott.
03:21
Doesn't mean they need to be part of everything in the NBA.
03:24
But they are.
03:25
Like, modern NBA players don't even like them.
03:27
They're like, shut up, old man.
03:28
We get it.
03:29
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
03:30
You talk all the time.
03:31
Like, the modern player doesn't even like these guys.
03:34
You're there involved in it because they think,
03:37
well, nobody else is popular.
03:39
You couldn't get Kaitlyn Clark to be on
03:41
in a three-point contest like the WNBA versus NBA
03:44
like last year that was epic.
03:46
So you just gave up on it, Scott.
03:48
Go on, we can't get Kaitlyn.
03:50
I guess there's no one else right in the world, right?
03:52
You couldn't find one other WNBA player
03:54
that can shoot a three ball.
03:56
You just gave up on it.
03:57
Oh, well, no, okay.
03:59
So what are we watching?
04:01
Okay, the three-point competition will be somewhat cool,
04:04
but I'd say if I'm watching that
04:05
instead of USA, Canada, and hockey, Scott.
04:07
Like, and then from a betting perspective,
04:09
I'm a degenerate.
04:10
I love betting on this stuff.
04:11
I used to bet on the NBA All-Star game every year,
04:13
put huge money on the over, Scott.
04:16
I don't even know what that format is now.
04:17
You got a bunch of teams split into this
04:19
and not even your rookie, your rookie sophomore game.
04:21
It used to be cool.
04:23
It used to be fun, right?
04:24
You know what I mean?
04:25
It was nice and simple.
04:26
Rookies versus sophomores, let's rock.
04:28
Now, oh, let's break it into four teams
04:31
and have a little mini tournament.
04:33
And nobody even knows
04:34
what you're freaking betting on anymore.
04:37
It's hard, you know, Silver, figure it out, bro.
04:39
Like everybody picks on Manford and Batman and Goodell.
04:43
I mean, the NBA just keeps on going down.
04:45
Like if this is an elevator, you're not going up.
04:48
You're going down.
04:49
I don't care how much money your players make.
04:51
The fact of the matter is you've got apathy
04:53
in the world for your league
04:55
because if you guys and your players don't care about it,
04:58
how the hell am I supposed to care about it, Scott?
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