Hoops Tonight - All-Star Weekend Reaction: Wemby & Anthony Edwards' EFFORT set tone for best NBA All-Star in YEARS
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Jason reacts to the entirety of NBA All-Star weekend including Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs and Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves setting an important tone that helped the effort in the All-Star game, Los Angeles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard's impressive play, the performances from LeBron James of the Lakers and Kevin Durant of the Houston Rockets, the problem with the dunk contest, and more.
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| 0:20.4 | Welcome to Hips tonight here at The Volume. Heavy Monday, everybody. Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. I got a jam-pack show for you guys today. I want to hit every single angle of the All-Star weekend. We finally got what I think is the best All-Star game that we've had in certainly many years, if not much longer than that. Also some other details that I want to dig into. |
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| 0:56.1 | throughout the remainder of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. So I thought |
| 1:00.1 | the All-Star game itself was fantastic. The guys played hard for the most part. We had several |
| 1:06.6 | really cool moments. We had three game winners between the Scotty Barnes game winner, |
| 1:12.2 | the Kauai Leonard game winner. They're, uh, Kauai ended up having this insane 31 point game |
| 1:19.0 | out of 48 points for the, uh, for the American older team, which we'll talk about. Victor |
| 1:23.8 | Wembeyanama looked like a wrecking ball in that game was hitting all sorts of shots. |
| 1:32.4 | He had a 19 point game in just a 12 minute quarters. That was impressive in its own way. |
| 1:36.9 | We had Carl Anthony Towns blow the world's chances by making a couple of head scratching defensive plays, kind of staying on brand there. We had some insane highlights, although most |
| 1:41.3 | of those were from Wembe, ironically, the improved effort got rid of |
| 1:44.9 | many of those flashy transition dunks that we've grown accustomed to in the NBA All-Star |
| 1:50.0 | setting. I just thought it was a big win for the NBA. The All-Star game was very fun to watch, |
| 1:56.2 | which for the most part, it has not been over the years. It was a good television product yesterday. |
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