All-Star Weekend Recap: What Worked & What Flopped

Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Meadowlark Media

Basketball, Comedy, Sports

2.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The 2025 NBA All-Star Game introduced a brand-new format, but did it deliver? Steph Curry took home All-Star MVP as Shaq’s veteran squad won the first-ever All-Star tournament, but reactions were mixed. Amin and Izzy break down what worked, what flopped, and the impact of LeBron James and Anthony Edwards sitting out last-minute. They also discuss Mac McClung’s historic dunk contest three-peat and Draymond Green’s criticism of the format—plus, NBA legend Oscar Robertson’s response. Plus, we react to Kyrie Irving's response to Juju Gotti's question at media day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Oddball, Amino Ascent, Izzy Gutierrez. We made it. We're alive. We survived
0:14.5	All-Star weekend and Lunar New Year, by the way. More on that perhaps later.
0:19.6	We survived All-Star Weekend.
0:21.5	Yes. Oh, that too. Yeah, yeah.
0:23.2	Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.
0:25.6	Draft Kings. The Crown is yours.
0:27.8	Hell yeah.
0:28.5	Still haven't gotten that explanation on that joke.
0:31.2	All right.
0:31.8	I mean, what you said we survived was All-Star Weekend.
0:34.5	I don't know if All-Star Weekend survived All-Star Weekend because it took so many
0:38.4	daggers from people who did not like the new format. What actually happened was the vets,
0:43.8	led by Steph Curry, Shaq's team, won the first ever All-Star tournament last night. I mentioned
0:50.1	Steph took the MVP, which was basically just who had the best highlights it felt like.
0:55.5	And I'm not sure what you thought about it.
0:57.9	It was kind of bizarre.
0:59.1	I thought you got a sense of what it was going to be like from the night before, or two nights before, rather, and the Rising Stars Challenge,
1:06.0	because it was just such a mixed bag.
1:08.6	Like you get people coming back and be like, yeah, I was kind of trying, but some other
1:12.6	people weren't trying.
1:13.4	I didn't really know how to handle it.
1:14.8	And then the pace of the game was so fast that they didn't realize they were in, you know,
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