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Much like the NFL’s Pro Bowl before it, the NBA All-Star Game is completely broken. Heck, what used to be an entire weekend of basketball and entertainment is now an afterthought to most fans and sadly, most players.
During Sunday’s commercial-fest, Warriors star Draymond Green blasted the new format, blaming it for the game not being entertaining. Which, as Charles Barkley pointed out, was hardly the reason why it was bad.
Echoing his sentiment that it is the players themselves that are to blame for NBA All-Star Weekend circling the drain was longtime NBA analyst and show host Michelle Beadle.
On Monday, on the Beadle & Decker show, the former co-host of NBA Countdown, SportsNation and Get Up blasted Draymond Green’s take on the failure of the All-Star Game. (And no, it wasn’t Caitlin Clark’s fault.)
“I’m not against biting the hand that feeds you to a point,” she said. “But that was out of control. … Here is my problem with it, Draymond. Why the hell is the league having to do somersaults to try and tweak and fix and change anything at all? Oh, that’s right, because you and your colleagues years ago have decided that you don’t really give two s—- about the All-Star Game, so you don’t really put any effort into it.
“But god—-, if you take away our resume moments. ‘We gotta have it for our resume. Because when our legacies are all said and done, it needs to say eight-time All-Star, even though I don’t care about being an All-Star.’
“We are here because of y’all. We are here because nobody cared anymore or had any pride in it, or cared about being in the Slam Dunk Contest, or any of those things. That’s why we are here. So you don’t get to wreck the car and then b—- about the car being in bad shape.
“You did this. You did this,” Michelle Beadle continued. “If this thing would have played on the way it used to play on when I was a kid. And people actually cared and there were actual bad feelings between the two teams how it is supposed to be in competitive sports, we wouldn’t be tweaking this and putting something named Mr. Beast in the middle of my All-Star Game for 10 freaking minutes of bad television. I am sorry. I love the NBA, I love the idea of change to make things better across the board of anything that we are talking about. But don’t cry about something that you had a hand in making happen in the first place.”
She’s not wrong, is she P.K. Subban?
.@PKSubban1 weighs in on if the NHL could inspire the NBA to change the All-Star format to USA vs. the World ✍️ pic.twitter.com/QcJGB3kfL3
— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) February 18, 2025