With the NBA All Star weekend starting on Friday, I thought maybe it’s time I wrote something about it. Now every year we get together to watch All Star Saturday which showcases the Dunk Contest. Now in recent years the dunks have not been too great although I enjoyed Josh Smith’s dunks and last year Andre Iguodala’s dunk off the back of the backboard. Although many people tune in for the dunk contest, I also like watching the 3-point shootout and even the Skills Competition between the leagues premier guards. Now the one thing I find stupid is the Shooting competition where you have one current NBA player, one retired NBA player and a WNBA player. Now I don’t mind watching the current NBA players and the old timers but a WNBA player? Don’t they have their own All Star Game? And showing them off at the NBA All Star Game isn’t going to make anyone watch that league since majority of those girls couldn’t dunk if their lives depended on it. Now having a competition between people like Steve Kerr and Brent Barry I wouldn’t mind watching since those two can shoot the lights out when no one is guarding them but including the WNBA players is just ridiculous. I propose that Zeke (Isiah Thomas) be the new Commissioner of the WNBA so he can run that league into the ground and we can all just erase any thoughts we ever had of the WNBA out of our minds. I say the over/under for the amount of years Zeke takes to run that league into the ground has to be 1.5years. If he does ever become the commissioner of that league I’m pretty sure Vegas would release odds to how long he would take to run that league into the ground. And don’t act like you don’t want to see that.
Anyways, let’s move onto the important stuff since I wasted way too much time talking about the WNBA when it can be summed up in one word, I’m sure many of you know what that one word is.
Friday Night:
McDonald’s All Star Celebrity Game
Now this game usually sucks ass since half of the people in it can’t shoot or jump or drive. But it’s always entertaining to see man dem try and fail. Nevertheless I predict that the West Team will win since they got Jamie Foxx, Reggie Bush and Bow Wow. The East time has Nelly, Taye Diggs and some other people that I don’t recognize without a picture. Now if you really want, you can check out the complete rosters here.
T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam
Now the Rookie Challenge I get but I still don’t know what the Youth Jam is. Guess I’ll just have to tune in to find out. Now this game between the sophomores and the Rookies isn’t always boring and actually ends up being an entertaining game. Now this year the Home Team, Toronto Raptors, got two representing the Red & White, Andrea Bargnani & Jorge Garbajosa. Bargnani will be the MVP of this game. If you want to check out the rest of the rosters, you can do so here.
Saturday:
On Saturday afternoon the teams usually run some sort of practices and they are televised on Raptors TV. Now the only reason I mention this is because last year the teams had contests such as makin the most shots from half court and stuff like that. And if you don’t have Raptors TV, no worries, there’s a free preview going on until Sunday.
Now Saturday Night starts off with the NBADL having their All Star game as well and it will be on NBA TV. Now this game will pretty much be garbage but I seen on the rosters that James White, product of University of Cincinnati, is going to be in it. This guy should have been in the Dunk Competition has he can jump out of the building. I also recognized a couple of other names with Raptor relations. First off there’s Stephen Graham (Brother of Joey Graham) and Loren Woods. All the Raptor fans know how Loren Woods kept the end of the bench very warm. Other than that it’s mostly a bunch of nobody’s but here are the rosters for the game. I’m taking a guess and saying the East wins it.
The Haier Shooting Stars are usually the first thing on NBA All Star Saturdays and they haven’t released the rosters of all the teams but the Spurs will be coming back to defend their title from last year and their team consists of Tony Parker, Steve Kerr and Kendra Wecker. Like seriously, who in the blue hell is Kendra Wecker? Anyone heard of her? My point exactly, no need for WNBA up in here. I don’t really care who wins this.
Now onto the good stuff:
Chuckster vs. Dick Bavetta. Dick Bavetta was the referee at the Lakers-Raptors game we hit up and the old man can move but there is no way Charles is losing this race. I got Charles to win by the length of two of his stomachs.
The Playstation Skills Challenge should be entertaining since you have Dwayne Wade, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James & Chris Paul. Now the original roster had Steve Nash but he got injured. D-Wade came within 0.3 seconds of breaking the all time record last year. This year I say my main man Kobe wins it, whereas the majority of people will say D-Wade since the whole Kobe-Wade rivalry thing. LeBron just seems too disinterested in doing anything this year. I think if he had to sign a contract this year he’d be too lazy to do even that.
The Foot Locker Three Point Shootout is always fun since some players can light it up and while players just end up missing everything since they are in game shooters like Antoine Walker. We all remember that horrible shooting display he put on. This year we got the defending champion Dirk Nowitzki, Damon “I’m the best shooter in the world” Jones, Jason Kapono, Mike Miller, Jason Terry and Agent 0 aka Gilbert Arenas. Now Gilbert might end up saying he’s going to win it all and then stink up the joint. Last year at the all star game he said he will be the All Star game MVP and didn’t come thru and just this week he said he was going to drop 50 on Portland and doesn’t even hit double digits. I say Damon Jones will win this with ease. He wanted to be in this competition very badly and I don’t think he will disappoint.
Now the Main Event of the evening. The Sprite Rising Stars Slam Dunk competition. You have the defending thief of the year Nate Robinson, The NBADL alumnus Gerald Green, Chicago’s Tyrus Thomas and the athletic freak Dwight Howard. Now I’ll be pissed if Nate Robinson or Gerald Green win this event, mainly because these two guys have HUGEEE egos and their egos will only get bigger if one of them wins. Tyrus Thomas doesn’t deserve to win especially after the comments he made about why he’s in the dunk contest in the first place so it’s only fitting that Dwight Howard takes the title. Now some might say that a 7 footer can’t win it but if you have seen D-How’s high school dunks on YouTube, you’d know this man is capable of anything. Especially after that ridiculous game winning alley-oop against the Spurs. Now the word is that Gerald Green has a dunk that will be top 10 ALL TIME in NBA dunk contest history. Couple of his teammates have been saying that this dunk will be remembered for all time and will be up there with the Jordan’s and the Carter’s.
Tony Allen said that if Green nailed the “crazy” dunk he has planned, it will go down as “one of the top 10 in history.” Green did divulge that Paul Pierce would be present at the contest and incorporated into one of his dunks
Now maybe it’s just hype or maybe he does have one dunk that will leave you speechless but nevertheless, I have Dwight Howard coming away with the crown. He also said that he’d like to be back in the dunk contest in the upcoming years. Finally someone who actually wants to be in the dunk contest for more than one year.
Sunday:
2007 NBA All Star Game.
Now I personally don’t think this game will be very exciting for the simple fact that it’s in Vegas and the night before majority of the players will be out partying. Michael Jordan’s 44th birthday party is on Saturday and so is Paris Hilton’s 26th birthday party. According to Sal from the Best Damn Sports Show, there are tons of parties happening that Saturday and majority of the NBA All Stars are going to be hittin them up. Now with that said, the East is going to win it and Chris Bosh is going to be MVP. First time All Star and he will dominate to bring the MVP trophy north of the border. You can check out the complete rosters here.
And for all the girls that are mad over my WNBA comments, I bring you the same video that someone sent to me to put in the other post.
February 16, 2007 at 1:23 pm
honestly gagan wut the hell do u have against girls… is it a toronto thing cus i just dont get it.. why does it bother u so much that woman can finally do things at the level of men.. and thats all it is.. it bothers you to see us succeed.. granted wnba is no where close to nba but hey let the girls play… they obviously got more game than u;ll ever have.. so let it be…
February 16, 2007 at 3:56 pm
that was actually a well done post, too bad most of the people that come to your site dont have the attention span to read that much in one sitting.
My picks:
Rookie Soph Game – East, Bargs MVP
Chuckster vs. Dick Bavetta – Chuck, blind Bavetta with his bald head so he runs into something, goes on to easy victory
The Playstation Skills Challenge – Wade. And when it comes down to 0.3 seconds, does it really matter? Nash is the best at this in my opinion, too bad his shoulders inflammed from spending hours on that hair of his every day.
The Foot Locker Three Point Shootout – Dirk. I agree that Jones should not be underestimated, but you can tell Dirk is someone that doesnt even need to practice and win this.
The Sprite Rising Stars Slam Dunk competition. – Green. With Dwight and Green in the finals. I dont care about his ego as long as he delivers. But like I told Shinda, do NOT underestimate D How … just check what i posted on shindas site under his all star post … Dwight wanted to dunk on a 12 foot net!