said La Greca on a recent episode of Don, Hahn & Rosenberg<\/a>. \u201cBecause these are supposed to be\u2026 a celebration of their sport.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen the All-Stars get together, it was always, growing up, a celebration of the game. You had the skills competition the day before. In the NBA, you had Saturday night, the dunk contest, and all that. Then on Sunday afternoon, you\u2019d have the All-Star game. It was crazy because we\u2019d go, \u2018Wow, did you see the All-Star game? The final score was 140 to 135.\u2019 That\u2019s an average Tuesday in the NBA now. But back then, it was like something.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, it\u2019s not a celebration anymore. It\u2019s a chance to mock the sport. When I did NHL Live back in the day, and it was All-Star Weekend, we\u2019re mocking, like, nobody wants to go. They\u2019re suspending Alexander Ovechkin because he refuses to go, and they\u2019ve got to come up with North America versus the world. They got to play three-on-three tournaments because it doesn\u2019t matter to anybody anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cNBA is the same thing. Do you really want to have something where most people are mocking it? Mocking your sport, talking about load management, talking about other players, modern players aren\u2019t as good as the old-time players. Why would you have a showcase of b*tching and moaning about your sport? Pull the plug already.<\/p>\n
\u201cMan up, [Adam] Silver. Man up, [Gary] Bettman. It\u2019s time. It\u2019s time to just say, be like Roger Goodell. We\u2019re out. Pull the plug on it. Be done. You could still have your teams, so you could still say, \u2018I went to the All-Star Game. I was an All-Star.\u2019 But let\u2019s stop playing this because whatever is going to happen in the NBA this weekend is a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Right now, the NBA has created a convoluted, tournament-style All-Star Game,<\/a> while the NHL is skipping it altogether because of the Olympics. There\u2019s a decent chance the NHL comes away looking better for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The All-Star Game has long been a mainstay of the professional sports league, showcasing its top talent by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[217781,193753,193754,95444,217782,385,131719,99],"class_list":["post-468481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-don-hahn-and-rosenberg","tag-don-la-greca","tag-espn-new-york","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-nfl-pro-bowl","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-all-star-game","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}