5 On It: What letter grade would you give NBA All-Star Weekend?
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I got five. It's time for Five On It. Raheem Harrison. Bring you five topics on their minds today.
On 104.3 The Score. I got five on it.
Number one. It's a special edition of Five on it on 104.3 The Score with Marshall Harris and also in the house, friend of the show, Russell Dorsey, national MLB insider, Yahoo Sports insider and analyst at MLB Network and Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+. We love you, Russ. Thanks for hanging out today, man. Of course. Here's question number one. What letter grade would you give the NBA's all-star weekend?
What?
What letter grade? So backstage I had a grade in mind, but now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to give it a flat C. Average. Flat C. Because even though the game itself was good... All-Star Saturday was not as good. And that averages out to be a C. And, you know, honestly, Friday was... You know what? C+. C-plus for the NBA for All-Star weekend. What gave it the plus for you? The plus is the fact that there were three days of action. Only one was below average. And, by the way, Damian Lillard... How is that man winning three-point content? You still need to use your legs, and he's not 100% healed. It's standing still.
But high-level athlete. And he's probably progressed in his recovery enough where he would be doing all these things anyway. I guess so. You're not running up and down the floor and cutting and all that.
Did you hear who's going to be in the three-point shooting contest next year?
Yeah, I heard Big Wardell has a name called.
What letter grade would you give the NBA's All-Star Weekend?
Steph Curry back in action next year. And he was doing an interview with some of the guys on the broadcast, and they were like, oh, can you make it from here where they were stationed? He missed the first three, and then he hit the fourth. And it was close the first three. Yeah, so C+, because I did enjoy yesterday, and that is the main attraction. Saturday is the drag. And I think they can figure out what to do with Saturdays and the dunk contest specifically. Wimby ruined the skills competition last season. So they got some things that they can tweak and make it better, but C-plus feels right to me.
I was teetering between D-plus and C-minus. Because Saturday night was a real bummer. Like, it really dragged the weekend down. Empty seats. People weren't enthusiastic. And that's from people who I talked to who were in the arena last But the game Sunday saved it because you saw competitiveness, you saw good product, you saw people trying, and the players themselves looked like they were enjoying the experience on Sunday. And that wasn't something you were hearing about prior to. I'm going to say C-.
What factors influenced the NBA All-Star Weekend grading?
I'll give it a C- because I think the game on Saturday was a winner. They found something in that.
So... If they can do that again, do you feel like this will be trending back up? With the game itself, I'm saying.
Well, see, the game being as good as it was, in my opinion, last night, it was still a C-. Like, you still have improvements that you gotta do. But I think you have... bought yourself time if you can continue on that trajectory with world versus team USA.
Would you change anything about Sunday though, specifically? I know Saturday's got revisions coming, but yeah.
And I think this is a product of the Olympics, but yeah, the time is bad. Yeah, the Olympics. If you had put that in prime time, I think you would have been very surprised with the viewership.
But I don't know that the All-Star Game itself was ever a nighttime thing. It was just more of a late evening. It's like an early evening thing.
It can be 7 o'clock Central, 8 o'clock Eastern is probably the time it should always be. That's too late. That's too late. I have a quick follow-up question for you guys because Kawhi Leonard said prior to the game yesterday, it may have been actually Saturday, but he said that he didn't understand the format and he wants it just to go back to East versus West. Do you guys agree with Kawhi or how did you feel? I heard. that because uh lebron voiced the same opinion of it should go back to east versus west and i heard that from a couple of guys the problem with that is the west is so stacked right now it would be uncompetitive and you'd have the same problems i don't agree with that statement necessarily i understand why you're saying that right in this moment
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–1:51
2
What letter grade would you give the NBA's All-Star Weekend?
1:51–3:06
3
What factors influenced the NBA All-Star Weekend grading?
3:06–4:59
4
How did the three-point contest impact the All-Star Weekend experience?
4:59–6:52
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What changes could improve the NBA All-Star Saturday events?
6:52–19:17
Speakers
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