Nick Baumgardner

It is a celebration of basketball.

And I'm telling you, what you think you remember about players playing hard didn't happen the way you remember it.

Yes, players did tend to play harder once the fourth quarter started.

Because guess what?

There's an all-star game MVP up for grabs.

And I'm going to get mine.

That's not the sense I got watching these games yesterday.

The sense was, we got 12 minutes to survive in advance.

And they played defense from rip.

And that's something that I can't say I've ever seen in an NBA All-Star game until recently, until this trash talk, until talk about the Europeans not playing hard.

And if you don't believe me, because you're like, Marshall, you're crazy.

You just like the NBA.

Why don't you listen to someone who professes to be a real NBA head, because he's a future Hall of Famer, and also he's a bit of a historian.

Listen to what Kevin Durant has to say.

Kevin Durant talking about the all-star history.

And he said he went back to the 60s, Russ.

He went back to the 60s.

And here's the point.

Back when I was growing up, if you didn't have a VCR, you couldn't re-watch anything.

That stuff's on YouTube now.