Whats the first thing youd change about All-Star weekend?
Ian Thomsen: Cancel it all except the All-Star Game. Seriously, I’d tell the rookies and sophomores they aren’t deserving of their own little “all-star game” because it only enables their feelings of entitlement. They’ve shown year after year they aren’t worthy of the stage, and then too many of them return to their NBA teams thinking they’re big-timers. The NBA creates its own image problems by the selfish nature of the weekend events. With great joy I would abolish the events on Saturday; maybe — maybe — I’d salvage the dunk and three-point contests and stage them in a condensed form at halftime of the real All-Star Game. Everyone agrees that the All-Star Game itself has lost its appeal, and I say it’s because all of the penny-ante junk of Friday and Saturday diminishes the real show on Sunday. By the time they’re taking 25 minutes to introduce the real All-Stars on Sunday, we’ve already sat through two previous days of hyping players and events that haven’t been worthy of the hyp
