12-17-2024, 07:53 PM
(12-17-2024, 06:07 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: I don't really like tying playoff implications to an All-Star game. That's a bit too much on the line for what is really a fan engagement event.
Did you watch the Olympic final and especially the last quarter of the game?
That was basketball symphony, an absolute maximum of talent on the court on both sides competing at the highest level in a do or die game, there‘s no purer essence of the game we love than these minutes with Curry rising above anyone else. And where did this happen? Outside of the NBA - you won’t ever find a game with that much talent on the floor in any playoff series.
But you do find it in the allstar game. And getting this thing really competitive because everybody has something to win would be the greatest fan engagement event ever instead of some Harlem Globetrotters like cameo, at least in my opinion.
And by the way I hate the current system for homecourt advantage in the finals, the Celtics not only had a cakewalk to the finals, but then got another advantage over us in the finals only because their conference sucked.