Nick Friedel
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Layla, the All-Star game remains terrible.
Right off the top.
The All-Star game has been bad for years and years.
And I'll give you two examples from the past.
where I thought it was actually good.
The first one was in 2012 in Orlando when Dwyane Wade broke Kobe's nose because he was playing some serious defense.
That was 14 years ago.
That shows how far the decline has gone.
The other one was the end of that game that you all remember in Chicago.
That was in 2020.
There was a push to get more money involved so players would have a bigger takeaway.
And there were some donations.
They played hard at the end.
And that's all anybody wants here.
I mean, the East and West thing worked forever.
And then suddenly it didn't work because...
Guys weren't playing as hard.
Everybody has blame in this thing that it got to this point.
It's still such a showcase event for the league.
And anybody who thinks, oh, well, it's going to disappear, there's no way.