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all right let's start off things with
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some action from the weekend that is and
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that is the NBA All-Star Game new format
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we have gone away from the East versus
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West then it was team LeBron versus team
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whever and now we've got four teams that
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are picked by the Four Guys on TNT who
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are playing Min games here this is the
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simple this is the biggest solution to
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the biggest problem yesterday and that
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is you got to eliminate all the dead
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time in between everything the intros
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the concerts the vignettes the comedy
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the bits at the end of the day this is
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an a weekend that we are there to see
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the very best in basketball perform
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doing something could be a Three-Point
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Contest could be a dunk contest is a
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miname games miname whatever this
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ultimately you got to give us basketball
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and there was just not enough of it last
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night it was just too interspersed
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intermittent and stagnant
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and if if the NBA wants to fix this
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there's something in there with these
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mini games because at the very least it
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seemed like guys cared more about
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winning that than the All-Star Game
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prior to that so okay we're taking baby
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but you cannot get any type of momentum
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when there are 40 minute intros and 20
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minutes of this and 20 minutes of that
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you know then it's less basketball now
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you're just shoehorning basketball into
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just some television show and that's
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going to bore everybody to tears
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including the players so there's a
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kernel of something good here there is a
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kernel of something good but you just
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have to just chip away at the TV
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nonsense the show nonsense get to the
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basketball of it maybe that's a little
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better after TNT loses the package TNT
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seemed to be pretty self-important last
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night we all love TNT we all love the
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history of the game on that channel but
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there was a lot of what makes TNT TNT
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and it became a little to me
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self-involved over the course of the
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night there is a massive problem though
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with the All-Star Game and there this is
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for all All-Star Games by and large but
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for the NBA All-Star Game and in general
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the NHL All-Star Game the NBA the NFL
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Pro Bowl and Major Leagues All-Star Game
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they' have stopped it has stopped
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mattering on a large scale to any of the
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players because money got too big and
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because players became too chummy and
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familiar with one another because of
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free agency because in basketball AA and
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travel teams because of the NFL these
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guys sharing agent and doing these you
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know shows together or advertising
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campaigns together or red carpets
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together there's no animosity anymore
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and so thus All-Star games cannot be
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there's no nobody cares about East
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versus West NL versus Al NFC AFC there
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those allines have all all been blurred
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okay it's not just a basketball thing
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it's everybody that you cannot put the
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genie back in the bottle what you have
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to do is find something despite all of
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that being gone that helps motivate guys
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number one money I'm not quite sure why
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the NBA just like the NBA cup doesn't
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have a sponsor like Sprite and say okay
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winning you have to make the money so
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big that the winning team actually cares
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about it and that the losing team gets
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nothing that's the way that it's goingon
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to have to be not sure why they haven't
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done it they do it for the NBA cup and
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that seems to matter guys want to play
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for the cash there they want their
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teammates to win cash for some reason
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not doing that in the NBA All-Star Game
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I have no idea why the second part is
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you have to create some type of personal
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pride and what we saw from the four
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nations is national pride still matters
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still matters so yanis said he'd be open
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to he'd want to play a global versus an
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American game I think you know that's
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the only way to fix this I think it's
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the only way to get guys to to care you
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say well you have to kind of like
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reconfigure how all stars are picked
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because there wouldn't be nearly as many
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Global stars as there would be American
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Stars you know that that's something
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that you'd have to dial in on dig in on
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but ultimately the only fix is that and
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if you got that fix then I think it
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would be good for a while I would think
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I mean I I find it hard to believe that
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if you had Team USA on your chest and
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you were losing every single year the to
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the Europeans um or those from across
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the globe that you wouldn't have some
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pride and it wouldn't start wearing on
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you maybe even that would wear off I
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don't know some of this is an NBA
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problem a lot of this is simply a modern
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sports problem and it's it's every
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exhibition game but I will say when
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Draymond Green says that this no format
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stinks I'm really glad the other old
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guys like Chuck on the on the floor said
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hey you're your Generations the problem
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because while it had been eroding to a
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certain degree with less and less
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defense now it's a complete crap show I
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mean when you have 400 points scored in
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an All-Star game then the current group
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of players cares so little about any
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intensity any defensive commitment any
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work that frankly it it's gone and
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Draymond doesn't have the leg to be able
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to say oh this stinks well because of
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you and your group of guys that deemed
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it so unnecessary to play any type of
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Defense energy effort what have you we
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are left scrambling to make something
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out of nothing something and I I do
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think that Draymond often times has this
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incredible blind spot and it showed
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itself again last night and I think that
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for the NBA players that are like well
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this kind of stinks too well you're
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going to have to give us something
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you're going to have to give us
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something because if this doesn't work
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and that doesn't work and that that
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won't work and you don't like this you
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don't like that you know what are what
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are we left to do how are we left to
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solve this maybe there isn't a solve
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maybe it's simply the skills competition
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and that's it maybe that's the only
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thing that we have left for all-star
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weekend but I have a tendency to believe
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if you could find a way to do the US
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versus the world you'd finally be into
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something that mattered to guys
