Jones & Keefe: Is there any fixing the NBA All-Star game?

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00:00I'm not gonna say they were playing like it was a playoff game, but it was better than years past

00:04There was some level of competition

00:06and I think even with the younger guys with the rising stars because the so-called oh

00:10Geez didn't want to get punked by the young guys

00:11Like it makes sense and I also like I know you're not a fan of the rising stars team

00:16But I do like it because we've talked about before

00:19Just how bad the nba is at marketing their young players and marketing their young teams like the thunder didn't play on christmas

00:26That's ridiculous

00:27So if this is a stage, that's funny. I think the nba is pretty good at marketing their players. Are they bad?

00:31I think they're all the older guys. I was gonna say they're great at it, but it does seem like it's lebron

00:35And so they're like, okay, I see so you're saying specifically they're young guys. You got it

00:39Got it. It takes a while to break through

00:40Yeah

00:41Everyone knew that thunder team was going to be one of the better teams

00:44And they didn't play on christmas and then they play the celtics

00:46It's matched up with week 18 of the nfl season like that is a bad job by the league

00:50So if this is giving those younger players a platform to get some

00:54Neck recognition and with these older stars it makes sense and it also got players to try so I thought the game itself

01:00The basketball when it was being played was fine

01:03It was all the rest of the gimmicks like the mr

01:05B shot and good for the kid for the hundred thousand but like we don't need all that

01:08No, it is. It's true. It's like the setup like if you take somebody now, they've been doing this for like 20 years

01:13So this is maybe not the best example

01:14But if you took like a really like older person and brought them to like a live game now

01:18They'd be like what is all this stuff going on?

01:20Like we're like how come it's not just the game but then like tnt they did that on steroids

01:26They're like well people don't just want to watch basketball. Like they need a famous youtuber. They need a stand-up special

01:30They need like a send-off. They need all this stuff in between while also working in

01:36a tournament