Game Night: How the NBA Can Fix Its All-Star Game Disaster

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Danny Cunningham and Jackson Gatlin dissect the 2024 NBA All-Star Game, offering candid critiques and suggestions for improvement. They discuss the new tournament format, praising increased player effort but lamenting excessive non-basketball content. The hosts propose expanding rosters to 28 players and raising the target score to 50. They explore the impact of LeBron James' absence and the potential for rising stars like Victor Wembanyama to reinvigorate the event. With TNT's broadcasting tenure ending, they express cautious optimism for future All-Star Games under new media partnerships, hoping for a return to competitive, fan-focused basketball celebrations.

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0:00.0	on today's show we watch the all-star game and boom boy do we have some thoughts we'll talk about
0:05.2	how maybe the NBA can go about fixing this on today's edition of locked on NBA game night
0:10.4	when that final buzzer rings you know it's time for a locked on NBA game night all the
0:16.7	post game reactions to every game across the league every single night with insights only the
0:22.6	hosts that locked on can provide it's the true NBA fans one stop for all the actions every game
0:29.9	every night it's locked on NBA game night tipping off now what What's up, everybody?
0:37.8	My name is Danny Cunningham.
0:39.0	I cover the Cleveland Cavaliers over at Lockdown Caves.
0:41.3	Joined today by Jackson Gatlin.
0:42.8	Does a great job covering the Houston Rockets over at Lockdown Rockets.
0:46.2	Thank you for making Lockdown NBA Game Night.
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1:09.2	And the All-Star game happened Sunday night. It was a exhibition, a tournament,
1:14.6	whatever we're going to call this, won by Team Shaq. It was Jackson, at least in my opinion,
1:20.5	one of the worst all-star performances I've ever seen. And the crazy thing here is it had
1:26.5	basically nothing to do with the actual basketball that
1:29.5	was bad i thought that was the bright spot there just wasn't enough of it oh absolutely look there
1:34.5	was i didn't get the chance to do it myself but apparently you know seeing what other people
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