The rallying cry for aggressive basketball on the NBA All-Star Recreation was heard this 12 months. Gamers took extra pleasure within the exhibition contest. They performed protection, ran correct units on offense as an alternative of a glorified layup line and appeared to care about profitable and dropping.
But, the NBA was ripped to shreds for placing forth an All-Star Recreation that featured too much razzmatazz, not sufficient basketball. Draymond Inexperienced felt rookies and sophomores had been unworthy of sharing the court with the All-Stars, even because the initiative appeared to supply extra aggressive basketball, pushing the veterans to their restrict.
Kevin Durant is fed up with all of the negativity surrounding the sport. On Monday, the Suns star urged the league to cancel All-Star Weekend so he and his friends can get pleasure from a weeklong break. Durant went so far as to suggest that critics of the All-Star Recreation did not watch the competition and simply complained for the sake of it.