That's us.

Bollocks on toast.

That's our team name.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'll come up with that.

Good morning, sweet world.

And welcome to the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network Thursday, February 20th. I'm Jay Skeethe's right there. He's smooth on the mic with a voice that'll make you jealous alongside me as always. Give it up for the homie tassmelis. Yeah, come in. Rock it. Had to give you one. We got the bearded one, T. Curby. Hey, yo. Happy belated birthday, TK. Enter the 36th Chamber of Life. Wow. Welcome, welcome. We got the International Man of Mystery taking it to the Max Lee Ellis. Friends. I remember the 36th chamber. It was a while ago now, but it was a good one. And last but not least, making the magic happen is J.D.

Hello. There is, and here we are. J.D., what the hell is going on in the office here this morning? We got a brand new setup. Oh, my gosh. It's a... It's a nightmare, is what it is. It's a goddamn nightmare. I mean, the desk is all different.

You're over at a whole other section of the office.

I can't even see you.

Where are you?

Hi, I can see you waving when you put your arm above tray. Yeah, there you are. So we're trying things out here. Yeah, you know, as, as mentioned before, we're trying to make the move to video. And this is all part of it. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, you'll get used to it, don't I.

I'm already loving it. We did six years with you not seeing me, so I think he'll be fine. That's a good point. Guys, follow us on Twitter. And Instagram at No Dunks Inc. You know we're on Facebook at Facebook.com slash no dunks Inc. Well, I guess it's official. We're now on Facebook.

And email us your NBA questions and comments to no dunks at theathletic.com.

We'll be on Facebook. And email us your NBA questions and comments to no dunks at theathletic.com. We'll be stepping on the beach later today here on a Thursday. So you can watch for that podcast Thursday afternoon. Back-to-back Jacks as we get back into it. We had a little break. Look, guilty. Guilty. We need some time off every once in a while after that crazy All-Star weekend. But yeah, back-to-back Jax today and then the drop on Friday and maybe a little bonus podcast over the weekend. That's what I'm going to say. It's all I'm going to say. But let's get into it with the Up Down Report. Preparating you are to this. It's the Up Down Report. Yes, the up-down Report. It's the Up Down Report. It's something that a lot of people I know

have been tweeting in, DMing us on Instagram. When are you guys going to weigh in on the actual

All-Star game? You did the live show at Chubas Tavern on the Saturday night, then you even

did a podcast on Sunday morning talking about the All-Star Saturday night festivities, but we have been quiet when it comes to the All-Star Games, because that's when we took our little break and everybody was flying back. So the first question here of the Up-Down Report. Were you up or down on the new All-Star Game format? Oh, who's going down on that? It was fun, wasn't it? Kyle Lowry's going down on that.

What a fun game it was. I think there's still a few tweaks to be had. I don't think it's perfect,

but I think when you consider what we've had in the past as far as All-Star Games, how can they possibly change this going forward? This worked, certainly in this night for the NBA. And I can't see it in any way that they go away from this. Like I say, I just think we'll maybe get into it, you know, the free throws. I think we can probably all agree that we don't want any free throws at all in that last. Even you? Not even me. No, I mean, because I think it just, it was a, that was the only problem with it. the way it ended with an Anthony Davis free throw. Nobody wanted to see that. We wanted to see that LeBron pulling up from the logo. We wanted that one to go in. We wanted someone to just hit a crazy shot or any shot and just not a free throw that was clearly a foul on Kyle Lauer. He basically mugged Anthony Davis. Nick, Nick Nurse, mad respect for Nick Nurse throwing out a challenge on that one.

But yeah, I think this was a huge win for the NBA.

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