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Welcome to the Athletic NBA show.

I am Jared Weiss.

I am joined by Tim Cato and Mike Vorkinoff.

We have Dave to Ford producing.

And we're going to talk about All-Star Weekend.

That was, I think it's getting progressively messier and people are more annoyed with it.

And so, Vork, you were there.

Cato, you were watching at home somewhere. I assume with a beer in your hands. So, Vork, I want to get your impressions first. What did you think of All-Star Weekend as far as the product and also everything around it? Well, I got to say, Steph versus Sabrina was awesome. And that is what I will say about NBA All-Star Weekend.

Actually, no, three-point concepts.

I mean, yeah, I think it's a product that has become less interesting because of both how

uninteresting the NBA game itself is.

The dunk contest has fallen.

Again, it's back in its kind of fallow period.

I feel like the dunk contest goes through this every 10 years or so. And so, you know, I think the

novelty of the Step first Sabrina competition was really what made it so cool. And it's really why

everyone was talking about that primarily because that was the only new thing

to an event that has been pretty stagnant, I would say, over the last few years.

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