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00:00I can't get into this NBA All-Star weekend at all.
00:06I mean, literally at all.
00:08I know they got their celebrity game.
00:11I looked at the rosters.
00:12I knew, like, two people.
00:15Then they have this rising stars game.
00:18Like, with that great hockey going on,
00:21and I know it's not going on tonight,
00:24I still can't get into that NBA weekend stuff.
00:29It's just completely, uh, I'm uninterested.
00:34I have not one lick of interest in any of it.
00:36Like, that stupid celebrity game,
00:38the rising stars games, any of it.
00:41I can't get into it.
00:42All I care about,
00:43swear to God, is that hockey game tomorrow night,
00:45and it's not till tomorrow night,
00:46so I'm, like, I'm tripping.
00:49I'm going to watch Indiana play tonight, UCLA.
00:52I'm not watching that NBA stuff.
00:55You know, growing up,
00:57I've always been a big All-Star game fan.
00:59Like, I love the Major League Baseball All-Star game,
01:02the NBA All-Star game.
01:04I went to Kobe's last All-Star game,
01:06and it was epic, right?
01:08And you had players trying.
01:09The slam dunk contest that was in Toronto
01:11was maybe the last good one, Scott.
01:13Remember with Aaron Gordon and Zach Levine?
01:17It was, like, epic, right?
01:19They were jumping over, like, mascots
01:21and, like, you know, 360s,
01:23and it was like a battle.
01:25It was like a street rap battle.
01:28It was epic.
01:29I was thinking about this,
01:30and I tweeted about this this morning, Scott.
01:32I almost think that, like, you know,
01:33that was the last good All-Star game
01:35when, like, Kobe was there,
01:37like, because there was sort of an expectation, a level.
01:41Remember in the old days, Scott,
01:43and not even, I'm not even saying not old,
01:44but, like, 15 years ago, even,
01:47dude, like, it was, like,
01:48I remember, like, Russell Westbrook
01:49gunning for the MVP, you know what I'm saying?
01:52Like, I remember, like, Michael Jordan in the old days.
01:54No, no, this is, you know,
01:55I'm the best, and we're playing against the best.
01:57I'm gonna be the best.
01:58Like, it was a thing.
01:59It was like, no, no, I'm gonna be the NBA All-Star game MVP
02:02because I'm a badass.
02:04Like, if you look at, like, the list of players,
02:07and the players over the years
02:08just care less and less and less and less and less,
02:11and you and I grew up watching Dr. J
02:15and Dominique Wilkins and, you know, and Michael Jordan.
02:20Like, guys, Michael Jordan
02:21participated in the Slam Dunk Contest, right?
02:25Vince Carter made his career off it.
02:27Vince Carter never won a title in his career.
02:29Hell, Vince Carter won very few playoff series
02:31in his career.
02:32Like, what did Vince Carter do in his life, right?
02:36You know, he's known as a dunker, right, as a dunker.
02:41And the modern era, no thanks to McClung,
02:44no thanks to McClung and these guys, Scott.
02:46You want people to pay?
02:48You want me to pay 1,400 bucks or 1,800 bucks
02:51to get in the building to watch a TV guy dunk the ball?
02:54Like, what are we doing here?
02:55Like, Adam Silver, all these other commissioners
02:57get ripped all the time.
02:59Like, the NBA All-Star Weekend is an effing joke.
03:02I'm with you.
03:03I used to, like, bet $2,000 on the over
03:05and, oh, I can't wait for the old Magic Johnson
03:08versus Isaiah Thomas and Pitt.
03:10They're all there.
03:11Now, it's like, whatever, bro.
03:14And then they make it even confusing.
03:16And you know what?
03:17All right, Chuck, Kenny, and these guys,
03:19they do a good job on the show, Scott.
03:21Doesn't mean they need to be part of everything in the NBA.
03:24But they are.
03:25Like, modern NBA players don't even like them.
03:27They're like, shut up, old man.
03:28We get it.
03:29Blah, blah, blah, blah.
03:30You talk all the time.
03:31Like, the modern player doesn't even like these guys.
03:34You're there involved in it because they think,
03:37well, nobody else is popular.
03:39You couldn't get Kaitlyn Clark to be on
03:41in a three-point contest like the WNBA versus NBA
03:44like last year that was epic.
03:46So you just gave up on it, Scott.
03:48Go on, we can't get Kaitlyn.
03:50I guess there's no one else right in the world, right?
03:52You couldn't find one other WNBA player
03:54that can shoot a three ball.
03:56You just gave up on it.
03:57Oh, well, no, okay.
03:59So what are we watching?
04:01Okay, the three-point competition will be somewhat cool,
04:04but I'd say if I'm watching that
04:05instead of USA, Canada, and hockey, Scott.
04:07Like, and then from a betting perspective,
04:09I'm a degenerate.
04:10I love betting on this stuff.
04:11I used to bet on the NBA All-Star game every year,
04:13put huge money on the over, Scott.
04:16I don't even know what that format is now.
04:17You got a bunch of teams split into this
04:19and not even your rookie, your rookie sophomore game.
04:21It used to be cool.
04:23It used to be fun, right?
04:24You know what I mean?
04:25It was nice and simple.
04:26Rookies versus sophomores, let's rock.
04:28Now, oh, let's break it into four teams
04:31and have a little mini tournament.
04:33And nobody even knows
04:34what you're freaking betting on anymore.
04:37It's hard, you know, Silver, figure it out, bro.
04:39Like everybody picks on Manford and Batman and Goodell.
04:43I mean, the NBA just keeps on going down.
04:45Like if this is an elevator, you're not going up.
04:48You're going down.
04:49I don't care how much money your players make.
04:51The fact of the matter is you've got apathy
04:53in the world for your league
04:55because if you guys and your players don't care about it,
04:58how the hell am I supposed to care about it, Scott?