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Post by iratherlikeme on Feb 10, 2003 0:02:46 GMT -5
But I thought the purpose of the All-Star weekend was to let the guys have fun, loosen up a bit, and get ready for the second half of the season.
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Post by Aba21 on Feb 10, 2003 0:15:03 GMT -5
SAY! did anyone check on MIKENYC after Gladys sung Midnight Train? He may not have even seen the game after that woman sang. She still looks good too!
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Post by SoulStirrer on Feb 10, 2003 0:16:52 GMT -5
Which is what the other 200 players in the NBA are doing!  The NBA All Star game is an exhibition, which is great. Players having fun being teammates for a day is fine. I like that. The other stuff doesn't add a thing to the proceedings. And MJ probably would want to be at the Bellagio this weekend anyway. |
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Post by Ivory Fair on Feb 10, 2003 0:18:55 GMT -5
I thought the purpose the All Star game was to make money? |
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Post by SoulStirrer on Feb 10, 2003 0:19:51 GMT -5
My Gladys Knight rant... It's easier for Gladys to appear for a sec at the All-Star game than it is for TNT to give her a special where she can sing for an hour?  |
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Post by SoulStirrer on Feb 10, 2003 0:20:40 GMT -5
I thought the purpose the All Star game was to make money? Do they still give proceeds to the Players Association? |
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Post by Aba21 on Feb 10, 2003 0:23:42 GMT -5
They still give money to the Players Association and the three days which consist of over three hundred fund raisers for various organization throughout the host city raises great amounts of money. Player attend these functions during the day and party at night. It has turned into a tremendous event, one in which baseball is trying desparately to imitate.
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Post by SoulStirrer on Feb 10, 2003 0:55:30 GMT -5
I hope baseball DOESN'T imitate the NBA or I'll be watching more True Hollywood Stories!!! ;D
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Post by SoulStirrer on Feb 10, 2003 0:59:51 GMT -5
I think a major, post-eating rant is coming... I need the numbers!
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Post by sukkafu on Feb 10, 2003 4:03:20 GMT -5
SOUL IS ON A ROLL! LOL! ;D
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Post by MikeNYC on Feb 10, 2003 7:15:37 GMT -5
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Post by iratherlikeme on Feb 10, 2003 11:40:51 GMT -5
Man, I thought that was just me.
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Post by SoulStirrer on Feb 10, 2003 11:50:44 GMT -5
Cazzie Russell was interviewed? I coulda cut away from the Richard Pryor story for that!
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Post by Aba21 on Feb 10, 2003 12:42:18 GMT -5
SS see sometime you have to weed through the unwanted to get what you want. By the way...what's wrong with the NBA? They are just a microism of today's world. You get what you pay for. All this hip-hop stuff may not be what we like but today's folks do. So you judst go with it. You take early entry from them and the league might become better. But you keep letting younger and younger players in(Lebron James) who are not ready for prime time and you get what you get. By the way SS I don't put any stock into the allstar game but last night's game was the best this generation of players have put out. They played hard, they played D and except through the second quarter played the game the way it should be played. It's just an all star game voted on by people like you and me that's all. The world won't change because of the all star game. But as a former player who has been disappointed in the past with the way today's game is played have to give them some props for this weekend. I feel like these players don't have the knowledge of the game I had but I sure as hell didn't have the skills they have today.
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Post by SoulStirrer on Feb 10, 2003 13:50:03 GMT -5
It's not the players, for the most part. The thing that makes me want to watch the World Poker Open on ESPN2 is the show around the players and the game. The networks interrupt a game with all kinds of other stuff, and expect you to like it. Because if you don't like it, you are out of time. And people hate to be out of time. This is what the networks are counting on, to retain viewers. As for selling your skills short, I bet you can execute a drop step move or box out a man with your butt and back better than most in the league right now! So don't give me that stuff about your skills.  |
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O.K. now the game,Iverson should have taken over,go to the basket and score,not pass the ball out. Jordan had his time ,the west couldn't stop Iverson.This time I think Allen Iverson was too unselfish. Gladys Knight was all that I could ask for....and more. I heard a "CLASSIC" Temptations song at halftime during the Cazzie Russell interview,Dennis singing Ball Of Confusion, you heard it Ivory ? I was still messed up by Gladys I could have made a mistake. 
Isiah Thomas gave the game away.