NBA All-Star Weekend

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The league's vets really don't like Embiid but Joel backs down from no one. I love it. All of it.

And yeah, Kyrie is, indeed, a magician.
 

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Russ had 3 points halfway through the fourth . . .

He should be perennial MVP in this game.
 

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Russ had 3 points halfway through the fourth . . .

He should be perennial MVP in this game.
It's gotta be Lebron if they win, 24/10/7 right now.

The real question is who gets if it Stephen wins. I'd give it to Lillard. None of the starters really deserves it.
 

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The league's vets really don't like Embiid but Joel backs down from no one. I love it. All of it.

And yeah, Kyrie is, indeed, a magician.
Was there any question he was going to the rim once he pulled that first behind the back up by the three point line and the crowd started cheering for his handle?

They all knew he was coming but couldn’t do anything about it.
 

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Went to the All-Star Game and a basketball broke out.
 

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Not sure if this format has staying power but that finish was legitimately exciting
 

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I would give a million pesos to find out what Brad Stevens has to say to Kyrie next time he sees him.
 

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I don’t think I’ve seen anything like that with that level of talent since the video of the Magic-Jordan Olympic scrimmage showed up on YouTube.
 

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So what percentage of the motivation for this new “pick their own teams” format was to give them a vehicle to talk about what a leader LeBron is?

Above or below 50%?
I recant. I'm a cynical asshole.

LeBron took legitimate ownership of this team and showed real passion down the run--I imagine he could turn to his guys as the guys he chose and they all stepped up.

If this was a function of the new format then yeah, it kicks ass.
 

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Love him or hate him, LeBron is a great guy to have as the face of the league. He is a brilliant player and a leader.
 

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I didn’t see the game but I figured it would only be a matter of time before we started seeing more effort in the ASG. The narrative has been for years that these guys don’t try and all of them are competitive athletes with a lot of pride; they don’t want people mocking them on social media or in the press. Plus, it only takes a couple of people pushing it a bit to get everyone else trying hard.
 

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Love him or hate him, LeBron is a great guy to have as the face of the league. He is a brilliant player and a leader.
Totally agree. He’s probably my favorite professional athlete right now something that was unthinkable during the Heatles era.

Another thing about LeBron, the AS game GM: he lost four of his draftees including one starter, Boogie, and two other bigs, Porzingis and Love. The fourth was John Wall.
 

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What's up with Jimmy Butler not playing?
He had a dislocated finger that was heavily wrapped for his last game on Thursday night, had the other hand banged up, then went knee to knee with another player. He was laughing and jovial at the practice throwing a football around.....there is no chance he had the flu but likely just held out from the injuries in a game like this.
 

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There's no questioning his brilliance as a player, but what exactly makes him a leader?
The fact that he has followers? That's the basic definition of a leader.....to have followers. He's been at the forefront of social injustice for years, his foundation spends over $1m a year on educational initiatives including hosting a technology boot camp for 3rd graders, he earmarked $41m for 1,100 Akron students to attend college, and for all the criticism his "Decision" got it is forgotten that the show raised $6m for the Boys and Girls Club of America.