My interest is only for the 3 point contest, and that’s only if Caitlin is involved. The rest of the AllStar weekend holds zero interest. The NBA has become pathetic to watch. It’s a dying league.
My man these "ballers" are not really ballers anymore. They are a "brand" and only concerned with that and no pride in doing their "job" well. This All-Star game will never be the same because the players don't give a crap about it. Kobe (R.I.P.) said it best when he said this is the greatest pickup game ever and almost every player gave it their best not only on offense but defense as well. And yes, maybe a player got crossed over once in a while and even dunked on but the effort was always there...especially at the end of the game. In all likelihood I will never come back to the NBA unless the effort changes. Keep up the amazing content my man! @The Ben Daniel Podcast
Kevin Durant is like "What? I have to play a game during the weekend?" He's probably thinking he could do some cardio for 5 minutes and then go to the bench and watch the on court dunk contest attempt or meet the celebrities that shell out thousands of dollars for all the "parties" and such. lol
It's very easy to fix. Just make the game count against their respective teams' records. Anyone who wants to be an a All-Star better take responsibility for their own team's success.
I agree the All-Star game sucks. Mr Daniels. Last Saturday NBA was on TV the same time WWE was on TV and I heard WWE had better ratings. You might want to look into that.
To your point, remember why the WNBA All-Star game was so good this year? Because the All-Star's went out to prove why they were just as good as the Olympic team. I know you can't just manufacture that kind of competition but just proving the points you were making, the only thing that can save the game is the effort of the players. Too bad the players don't have some kind of leadership that could help them understand that.
I cant watch it. I know it will be a joke. It's two teams playing a game of horse. The regular season is almost as bad. Goodby NBA. I'm hoping the CC and the wnba know this is a huge chance.
make it East vs West and whoever win will play Bo5 series in the playoffs for the winning conference instead of Bo7. the winners won't be as exhausted in the finals as the losers so ig that is a match worth fighting for
it comes down to parenting and coaching and long term societal rot. Back it the day, All-Stars would bust the shit out of each other, making themselves play worthy of the All-Star uniform. Players used to have the ability to absolutely destroy each other and then sing Kum Ba Yah after the game. I remember MJ welcoming Kobe at his first All Star game. It was nothing but love, until it wasn't. The Pro Bowl was the same way. It was an honor so they gave their utmost.
What bs is this? It takes a village to make a bb all star game? Lebron gives no love to anyone. MJ hates Pippen. Pete Rose's assault in an all star game was sickening and equal to his gambling. No all star game means anything except Kelsey Plum face guarding CC and losing nonetheless.
I don't like basketball Ben, I love watching you and I love Caitlin Clarke I'll watch her play sport any day. That's any sport she plays I'd watch her play marbles you know what ever she plays is going to be fun to watch.
What ruined the NBA: LeBiogenesis James, Klutch, Adam Silver, and stats nerds - Magic and Bird - RIVALRY saved the NBA. Rivalry and competition being the key. Then MJ had to battle and overcome, so did Kobe who wanted to prove himself without Shaq. We saw Iverson give everything he had every night dragging himself on the court. Then enter LeBron. Refusal to compete or to expand and improve his game - basically the same player as he was in highschool - football player on a basketball court with all power and very limited actually basketball skills. Ways LeBiogenesis cheated the game: No dunk contest Super teams Buying the media to make excuses and lower the standard of the NBA Removing competition Steroids and PEDs Making participation trophies cause you can’t win Crowning yourself “goat” Bum son in the league making it fake Buying the NBA media who used to represent fans but now makes excuses for a bad product and tries to lower the standard Klutch running the league Acting above competition cause you are afraid to compete Entitled diva attitude Coach killer Sitting out national tv games It started with acting above the dunk contest cause he was scared he couldn’t win. That was when his ego became more important than the game and the fans. The super teams took the entitlement to the next level and saying you are “the goat”. NBA media used to represent NBA fans and hold players to account. That’s how the regular media is supposed to work too - just like the regular media collapsed into a joke that lies for the rich and powerful to exploit us - the NBA media are fanboys who want to be buddies with LeBron and the NBA’s rich and powerful aka LeBron and Rich Paul - and they know if they don’t lie they will be black balled - this creates a toxic feedback loop just like trump and Fox News. The NBA today is basically fox and friends for dictator LeBron. He watches it and says he will get people fired the same way as trump. Remember LeBalco sat out a Lakers Vs Celtics TNT game to try to embarrass Darvin Ham and got AD to sit out too and the Lakers won without them - then the broadcast announcers tried to credit LeBron with coaching the team to the win as they started to win and LeBalco jumped up and faked excitement - fraud. Oh then he came back the next night to stat pad against a G-League injury depleted Memphis team. Adam Silver helped this too - he is from NBA marketing so he comes up with gimmicks rather than actual make the sport better. He saw the NFL get more offense and he thought that would be good for him too. Also after the “malice at the palace” they wanted a “softer NBA” - they took it WAY too far. Legislated defense out of the game and this coupled with LeBron taking competition out on the player side - Silver taking it out on the league side - and analytics nerd GMs deciding every team should just have a 3 point shootout every night cause they don’t understand the sport or human beings and think they “hacked the game” they hacked the ratings away. These 3 factors together have ruined the NBA. Also Silver seeing ratings down - his answer is gimmicks - play in, NBA Cup, now ALLSTAR game gimmicks, that’s how marketing people see the world - gimmicks to fool people rather than just sell a good product people actually want. Baseball had analytics nerds ruin their sport - they had to ban the defensive shift and institute a pitch clock to fix it. Players emulate the best player - Magic and Bird caring SO much about winning spawned MJ to “want to fit in a place with those guys” - he said that when he won his first title. Also getting 6 cause Magic had 5. The Kobe’s quest for 6. Who says Kobe is bad cause he got 5 and not 6 - no one. If you listen to Kobe or Michael Jordan talk, you realize they are extremely extremely confident, but they’re not narcissist they love competition and they give credit to their competition when they feel their competition is worthy. They NEVER made excuses for losing and the media blamed THEM!!!!!! LeBron now pays the media to blame role players and spin a narrative that he is so great he is ENTITLED to win EVERY NBA title - or if he doesn’t it’s the role players fault, or the organizations fault cause he didn’t have enough help - or the coach, even tho LeBron is supposed to be the highest IQ player ever he can’t ever have ANY coach or teammate stick with him for more than a few seasons. His entitled attitude filters down to younger players - they think stats make them good cause LeBron has minimized winning. “Ring culture” exists in EVERY sport - this generation of NBA players are lazy entitled divas who don’t wanna compete. Rather not try than try and fail. Cause they believe their own propaganda- starting with LeBalco and it’s led the NBA off a cliff. LeBron inspires these guys to not play defense, flop, cry, and overrate themselves. The NBA should of promoted Tatum and Brown this summer at the Olympics - the current champs - instead Brown wasn’t on the team and Tatum didn’t play and 40 year old stat padding LeBron almost cost the team the gold medal then he got a fake MVP he didn’t deserve - all this prostituting the Olympics cause he can’t win an NBA title even in this watered down NBA. They changed the CBA to STOP LeBron from making super teams cause it was so bad for the league. MJ made “player empowerment” - he gave players revenue streams outside of the team with shoes and other endorsements. LeBron made “player entitlement” and “fan disempowerment” - on his watch acting like a diva and padding stats are the measure of greatness - not winning. Not any team success…. It’s cheapened and watered down the entire league. MJ pushed the league forward - LeBron hurt the league - prostituting it for his ego to push himself forward while hurting the league and the game - cheating it his entire career - when you are the face of a sport what you do filters down. Being a super diva narcissist and acting above competition has filtered down. And it’s killed the league for the fans. Maybe after team USA gets dusted in the next Olympics they will change - but it’s gonna take something like that cause they got paid and went from “plumbers and firemen” who loved the game so much they played for peanuts and worked hard blue collar jobs - to Instagram models, social media influencers, TikTok’ers, and video gamers, where these guys make more money and have the best medicine and nutrition and are so out of shape they can’t play defense or load manage a third of the games.
Wnba beat NBA skills night and all-star game night. So I guess Catlin Sabrina Curry ain't happening let me see cc Sabrina vs Curry Lillard best NBA 3 points shootout Edwards ja Morant let me see real show dunking LeBron 😂😂 getting payed for free now boring
What's your point, Ben? Your descriptions of the NBA All Star game sound an awful lot like a description of a regular season game. The rot goes a lot farther than the All Star game. It's endemic to the NBA as a whole. They need to fix the regular season games first, once that's done the All Star game will be easy to fix. I see suggestion after suggestion for fixing the NBA many of them seem like workable, easily applied fixes. Unfortunately Adam Silver apparently doesn't spend any time reading suggestions on social media. Somehow, somewhere, some one of his peers who IS aware of the resources on social media will talk to him. But it will have to be one of his peers, and one he respects before anything will happen.
My interest is only for the 3 point contest, and that’s only if Caitlin is involved. The rest of the AllStar weekend holds zero interest. The NBA has become pathetic to watch. It’s a dying league.
Hey Ben, thank you thank you for doing several videos today. I appreciate it cause I love listening to you
My man these "ballers" are not really ballers anymore. They are a "brand" and only concerned with that and no pride in doing their "job" well. This All-Star game will never be the same because the players don't give a crap about it. Kobe (R.I.P.) said it best when he said this is the greatest pickup game ever and almost every player gave it their best not only on offense but defense as well. And yes, maybe a player got crossed over once in a while and even dunked on but the effort was always there...especially at the end of the game. In all likelihood I will never come back to the NBA unless the effort changes. Keep up the amazing content my man! @The Ben Daniel Podcast
This thing is not circlng the drain it is in the trap waiting for the plunger
Sign of the times where the big questions of the day are like, "What is an NBA All Start Game?", "What is a woman?", etc
Hope your subscribers go up soon, likely when Wnba starts up. You work hard imo
Adam Silver's legacy will be one of failure. He has a "chance" to fix it. Her name is Clark. Caitlin Clark. Will he? Personally I doubt it.
Clark cannot do anything to fix the NBA the WNBA still lost like $40 million with her
@@nagi9004 Yes, but the next 2 seasons will show the Clark Effect in action.
They make too much money
I cannot get myself to watch sports in this country anymore. The wokeness, belly aching, lousy play over paid players turned me right off.
Omg u r so right,, complaints after complaints,,it's terrible,,n They making money
Scottie Pippen gave more effort on a single defensive possession on MTV's Rock N Jock basketball than these players do the whole game combined.
I haven’t watch the all star game since they were scoring 160 points a damn team and it was going up further than that!
Ben, this was hilarious.
A game of horse would be acceptable.
It should be East vs West with playoff implications. I don't know what those implications would be, but that's the only way to make players care.
The players don’t go at each other at all
Kevin Durant is like "What? I have to play a game during the weekend?"
He's probably thinking he could do some cardio for 5 minutes and then go to the bench and watch the on court dunk contest attempt or meet the celebrities that shell out thousands of dollars for all the "parties" and such. lol
Facts 🗣️🗣️🗣️
The the NBA Celebrity game on Friday night on all-star weekend is more competitive and more exciting than the All-Star game on Sunday. Sad but true
Obi-Wan Kenobi is our only hope!
Bring back masculinity!!!!
Love it, great vid!
I never watched the Rising Stars again after those rules were added. I want to watch a game, not a 3x3 rules game.
I don't even watch the NBA anymore. The players don't care and I don't care. TNT Inside the NBA is better than the actual game itself!
The league needs to go back to allowing defense. Hand checking and physical play makes the game more competitive.
LeBron ended the dunk contest years ago being too scared to compete
Most people are struggling to pay bills and have no time to watch millionaires games. No one I know watches the NBA.
My suggestion is make first team and a second team play against each other just like WNBA Olympic year ,then they have something to approve
It's very easy to fix. Just make the game count against their respective teams' records. Anyone who wants to be an a All-Star better take responsibility for their own team's success.
LEBRON JAMES killed the all star game over years ago. That was the beginning of the end.
All Stars against the Harlem Globetrotters should entertain.
First team to 100 pts wins. That’ll make them play defense.
I agree the All-Star game sucks. Mr Daniels. Last Saturday NBA was on TV the same time WWE was on TV and I heard WWE had better ratings. You might want to look into that.
wee-wee-wee all the way home !
Should have CC on a team somehow
To your point, remember why the WNBA All-Star game was so good this year? Because the All-Star's went out to prove why they were just as good as the Olympic team. I know you can't just manufacture that kind of competition but just proving the points you were making, the only thing that can save the game is the effort of the players. Too bad the players don't have some kind of leadership that could help them understand that.
other than this what do you really think of it? you should do stand up comedy you make me laugh .
I cant watch it. I know it will be a joke. It's two teams playing a game of horse. The regular season is almost as bad. Goodby NBA. I'm hoping the
CC and the wnba know this is a huge chance.
make it East vs West and whoever win will play Bo5 series in the playoffs for the winning conference instead of Bo7. the winners won't be as exhausted in the finals as the losers so ig that is a match worth fighting for
it comes down to parenting and coaching and long term societal rot. Back it the day, All-Stars would bust the shit out of each other, making themselves play worthy of the All-Star uniform. Players used to have the ability to absolutely destroy each other and then sing Kum Ba Yah after the game. I remember MJ welcoming Kobe at his first All Star game. It was nothing but love, until it wasn't. The Pro Bowl was the same way. It was an honor so they gave their utmost.
They all get paid too much to care... they have guaranteed salarys worth 10s and 100s of millions.
What bs is this? It takes a village to make a bb all star game? Lebron gives no love to anyone. MJ hates Pippen. Pete Rose's assault in an all star game was sickening and equal to his gambling. No all star game means anything except Kelsey Plum face guarding CC and losing nonetheless.
I don't like basketball Ben, I love watching you and I love Caitlin Clarke I'll watch her play sport any day. That's any sport she plays I'd watch her play marbles you know what ever she plays is going to be fun to watch.
What ruined the NBA: LeBiogenesis James, Klutch, Adam Silver, and stats nerds -
Magic and Bird - RIVALRY saved the NBA. Rivalry and competition being the key.
Then MJ had to battle and overcome, so did Kobe who wanted to prove himself without Shaq. We saw Iverson give everything he had every night dragging himself on the court.
Then enter LeBron. Refusal to compete or to expand and improve his game - basically the same player as he was in highschool - football player on a basketball court with all power and very limited actually basketball skills. Ways LeBiogenesis cheated the game:
No dunk contest
Super teams
Buying the media to make excuses and lower the standard of the NBA
Removing competition
Steroids and PEDs
Making participation trophies cause you can’t win
Crowning yourself “goat”
Bum son in the league making it fake
Buying the NBA media who used to represent fans but now makes excuses for a bad product and tries to lower the standard
Klutch running the league
Acting above competition cause you are afraid to compete
Entitled diva attitude
Coach killer
Sitting out national tv games
It started with acting above the dunk contest cause he was scared he couldn’t win. That was when his ego became more important than the game and the fans.
The super teams took the entitlement to the next level and saying you are “the goat”.
NBA media used to represent NBA fans and hold players to account. That’s how the regular media is supposed to work too - just like the regular media collapsed into a joke that lies for the rich and powerful to exploit us - the NBA media are fanboys who want to be buddies with LeBron and the NBA’s rich and powerful aka LeBron and Rich Paul - and they know if they don’t lie they will be black balled - this creates a toxic feedback loop just like trump and Fox News. The NBA today is basically fox and friends for dictator LeBron. He watches it and says he will get people fired the same way as trump.
Remember LeBalco sat out a Lakers Vs Celtics TNT game to try to embarrass Darvin Ham and got AD to sit out too and the Lakers won without them - then the broadcast announcers tried to credit LeBron with coaching the team to the win as they started to win and LeBalco jumped up and faked excitement - fraud.
Oh then he came back the next night to stat pad against a G-League injury depleted Memphis team.
Adam Silver helped this too - he is from NBA marketing so he comes up with gimmicks rather than actual make the sport better. He saw the NFL get more offense and he thought that would be good for him too. Also after the “malice at the palace” they wanted a “softer NBA” - they took it WAY too far.
Legislated defense out of the game and this coupled with LeBron taking competition out on the player side - Silver taking it out on the league side - and analytics nerd GMs deciding every team should just have a 3 point shootout every night cause they don’t understand the sport or human beings and think they “hacked the game” they hacked the ratings away. These 3 factors together have ruined the NBA.
Also Silver seeing ratings down - his answer is gimmicks - play in, NBA Cup, now ALLSTAR game gimmicks, that’s how marketing people see the world - gimmicks to fool people rather than just sell a good product people actually want.
Baseball had analytics nerds ruin their sport - they had to ban the defensive shift and institute a pitch clock to fix it.
Players emulate the best player - Magic and Bird caring SO much about winning spawned MJ to “want to fit in a place with those guys” - he said that when he won his first title. Also getting 6 cause Magic had 5. The Kobe’s quest for 6.
Who says Kobe is bad cause he got 5 and not 6 - no one.
If you listen to Kobe or Michael Jordan talk, you realize they are extremely extremely confident, but they’re not narcissist they love competition and they give credit to their competition when they feel their competition is worthy. They NEVER made excuses for losing and the media blamed THEM!!!!!!
LeBron now pays the media to blame role players and spin a narrative that he is so great he is ENTITLED to win EVERY NBA title - or if he doesn’t it’s the role players fault, or the organizations fault cause he didn’t have enough help - or the coach, even tho LeBron is supposed to be the highest IQ player ever he can’t ever have ANY coach or teammate stick with him for more than a few seasons.
His entitled attitude filters down to younger players - they think stats make them good cause LeBron has minimized winning. “Ring culture” exists in EVERY sport - this generation of NBA players are lazy entitled divas who don’t wanna compete. Rather not try than try and fail.
Cause they believe their own propaganda- starting with LeBalco and it’s led the NBA off a cliff. LeBron inspires these guys to not play defense, flop, cry, and overrate themselves.
The NBA should of promoted Tatum and Brown this summer at the Olympics - the current champs - instead Brown wasn’t on the team and Tatum didn’t play and 40 year old stat padding LeBron almost cost the team the gold medal then he got a fake MVP he didn’t deserve - all this prostituting the Olympics cause he can’t win an NBA title even in this watered down NBA.
They changed the CBA to STOP LeBron from making super teams cause it was so bad for the league.
MJ made “player empowerment” - he gave players revenue streams outside of the team with shoes and other endorsements.
LeBron made “player entitlement” and “fan disempowerment” - on his watch acting like a diva and padding stats are the measure of greatness - not winning. Not any team success….
It’s cheapened and watered down the entire league. MJ pushed the league forward - LeBron hurt the league - prostituting it for his ego to push himself forward while hurting the league and the game - cheating it his entire career - when you are the face of a sport what you do filters down. Being a super diva narcissist and acting above competition has filtered down. And it’s killed the league for the fans.
Maybe after team USA gets dusted in the next Olympics they will change - but it’s gonna take something like that cause they got paid and went from “plumbers and firemen” who loved the game so much they played for peanuts and worked hard blue collar jobs - to Instagram models, social media influencers, TikTok’ers, and video gamers, where these guys make more money and have the best medicine and nutrition and are so out of shape they can’t play defense or load manage a third of the games.
It seems the NBA has done their best over the years, to take the toxic masculinity, out of the NBA.
Ben wnba all-star game was hitting they was playing for real.. NBA straight dunk contest no defense simple
Wnba beat NBA skills night and all-star game night. So I guess Catlin Sabrina Curry ain't happening let me see cc Sabrina vs Curry Lillard best NBA 3 points shootout Edwards ja Morant let me see real show dunking LeBron 😂😂 getting payed for free now boring
What's your point, Ben? Your descriptions of the NBA All Star game sound an awful lot like a description of a regular season game. The rot goes a lot farther than the All Star game. It's endemic to the NBA as a whole. They need to fix the regular season games first, once that's done the All Star game will be easy to fix. I see suggestion after suggestion for fixing the NBA many of them seem like workable, easily applied fixes. Unfortunately Adam Silver apparently doesn't spend any time reading suggestions on social media. Somehow, somewhere, some one of his peers who IS aware of the resources on social media will talk to him. But it will have to be one of his peers, and one he respects before anything will happen.