San Francisco – At a post-game press conference, Steph Curry said there were times when “the game felt a bit disturbed” on All-Star Sunday nights. .
Curry also has a tournament-style format and relatively clipped game length (played in 42 minutes of basketball, total, three hours of the night runtime) that “a strong storyline will be built.” No, they were asking if they were “playing this year” the day before Kyrie Irving. Curry confirmed that they were.
This is not intended to be light par, certainly not curry, or at least at face value, it is not even in the game itself. The All-Star Game is from a timeless time. The league's biggest star exposure is made when it's not satisfied with quick crawling, searching, or unique amateur or professionally produced clips and content appearing on social media feeds that are not yet in focus. I did. The game is an event in which the superstars physically occupy the same floor with such a specific configuration at once throughout the season, but its purpose has changed.
Somewhere along the way, the All-Star Game became a catchall. An event that will satisfy sponsors, attract new brands, and drive NBA partners to prison audiences. It also becomes an innovation-related event, such as making robot dogs whip T-shirts to crowds at commercial breaks, celebrating their people and “products.” A ripe new territory for influencers, old favorites of celebrities, mixed bags for the media, and many jobs for NBA staff. It's a bit bittersweet, sometimes strange, a tired end to a long weekend, at the same time a crown jewel and finish line, somewhere there, a basketball game is played.
The game didn't take on all of this at once. The progression is slow and has not been adjusted to what has been added over the years. The problem is that when new components are added, nothing is stripped away. As a result, it is unwieldy, laborious, expensive, and very long nights we have before us.
As the Bay's virtual ambassador, Curry was involved in some of the decisions regarding the format of this year's All-Star Game. Most of the time, he seemed satisfied, but he pointed out that there was always room for improvement. He said each participant chose to make it what they wanted.
Well, only if.
Nikola Jokic said Maybe it's time for us to accept that this is exactly that, Jalen Brown confirmed with his All-Star Media availability the day before the game He didn't know how the new format would work.and Draymond Greene put it into shape and said he didn't think the rookie team was right. I got the opportunity to play in the game For format adjustment.
Every star already has a choice. As a group, they represent the most viable decision makers in the league. Still, the choices you choose are very different from the opinions provided.
The passivity of athletes around the game, or willingness to criticize it, doesn't necessarily work to adjust it (note that I'm not saying “fixing”), It's a function disorder, but it's a general reaction excessively (Stimuli, choice, demand, details – take a pick) is to freeze and not decide at all. These people, like everyone else in us, appear to be hampered by the expectations and actual weight of the game. The difference is that they are said to be there to play competitive and fun basketball. They were then asked to get off the floor for a segment run by Youtubers. A monologue by Kevin Hart or who will be the next host, although the send-off was good, it shouldn't have happened midway through the game.
From now on, there will likely be two forks on the roads for the league to continue. One is to take the best learning from the All-Star Games of the past few years and put them together where it makes sense. For example, go back to the two team format, but keep the target score for each half.
Another option is to continue like this, add and tack the structure until it's even more meaningless and the night is too dense for it to have a point. Jokic may be right in his wisdom that this is the reality we need to get used to, and that the world around the game has changed so much that the game can help it start.
The curry echoed in the same way through his presser. “I think it was a good step in the right direction to somehow reinvigorate the game, and you'll tinker with it next year and see what kind of change you can make. Please,” he said.
“I don't want to compare it to other times. It doesn't look like it used to be, because the world is different, life is different, and the way people consume basketball is different, but for everyone, it doesn't look like it was before, but for everyone. There's something fun. “Curry said a little suddenly, “I had fun, our team was fun, it's all important.”
After the All-Star Media was wrapped, as I walked through the tunnel, I came across a dense entanglement of all people. This is not a rare sight on weekends, with former stars, musicians, mascots, minor celebrities and of course the current All-Stars roaming around. Everyone stopped this time with a vaguely evil Boston Dynamics Robot dog Shaq was lined up on the floor Then, in one of the many extension stops of the night, he whipped his t-shirt into the crowd.
People wanted dogs to play. Considering that these “dogs” use are for the police, it felt strange and bleak. Like a preview of the far future, we think we are far away, but already here and less than we wanted.
Is basketball an interlude or a point? There may be a game when you solve that chicken or egg causal relationship.
