Well Played: NBA All Star Agony, 4 Nations Face Off (and Fist Fight), and UCONN Snaps a Streak

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The NBA hoped to get fans to care about the All Star Game this year and…it seriously backfired. After only 42 minutes of game time during the 3-hour broadcast, fans were left scratching their heads at the new format, the constant stoppages, and Kevin Hart’s (bad) jokes. Blake and Caroline look to the NHL’s 4 Nations for inspiration on how the ballers can make next year better. In this episode of Well Played, we’ll also cover: Why the NBA revamped the All-Star game format, and why fans still hated it Wemby and Chris Paul exploiting a loophole in the skills challenge How the list of the top-100 highest paid athletes in 2024 includes zero women Women’s college hoops heating up with No. 7 UCONN’s win over No. 4 USC Our top “Send Its” of the week including Saquon pulling a ball boy into the Eagles parade, Lebron ditching the All Star game to work out with his daughter, and the three-peat winner of the dunk contest Caroline’s Instagram: @cghendy Blake’s Instagram: @blaaakkkke theSkimm’s Instagram: @theskimm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Well Played, presented by The Skim. I'm Caroline Henderson.
0:07.0	And I'm Blake Morgan.
0:08.0	Hey girl. We're in the postseason. I know. How are you feeling? It's really sad. I felt like a lost puppy this weekend because I just kind of didn't know what to do with myself with no...
0:18.5	Girl, it was Valentine's Day. I i know but like valentine's day
0:21.7	is a made-up holiday because i'm sorry you should love me 365 days of the year yeah but you know
0:26.9	what i like i think that you can be loved extra on that day okay that's fair i do require like extra love
0:32.8	almost every day because i'm very needy but like you know like, you know, I'll take. Here's the thing, though, like, it's a lose-lose because I'm like, oh, I hate Valentine's Day
0:39.3	because it's, you know, a made-up holiday.
0:41.8	But then I do expect flowers and chocolate.
0:44.6	You're part of the problem, girl.
0:45.5	Yeah, no, totally.
0:46.1	I have to say.
0:46.7	I completely agree.
0:47.8	Did you guys do anything? actually we ordered sushi and we're just going to have like a very chill night in said sushi
0:57.3	did not come for like two plus hours so then we were like screw it we're going to like drop that
1:03.7	and we're just going to pivot to fried chicken obviously next best option okay wait can I ask was it
1:09.8	from like a local spot?
1:10.9	It was from Jersey City, actually.
1:12.3	Oh, do you know where?
1:13.2	Bob White's.
1:14.5	I know Bob White's.
1:15.2	Yeah, I know him.
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