2023 All Star Game Thread – KnickerBlogger

Julius on Team LeBron. Along with the last pic, Geo — Jaren Jackson.

More bummed than ever that Jalen isn’t there…

So where was Julius picked? Does anyone know?

Was Julius picked early or late?

Whew- my only concerns for All-Star weekend were Julius either completely embarrassing himself in the three point shootout or getting picked last. I want him with as positive a frame of mind as possible for the stretch run.

KFNJ- Didn’t see it but it looks like towards the end- maybe three or four picked after him?

Thanks Nicos. That sounds fine.

He clearly didn’t embarrass himself in the three point contest. But he was a long way from winning. Maybe that will make him want to improve at shooting threes.

those Gucci Addidas suits Candace Parker has been sporting this weekend are insane…

hi raven…I hope the day is moving along smoothly for you…yeahJaren Jackson Jr makes sense for the last pick…

Yeah, Randle was pick #5 out of 7 for the bench, so two players after him on each team. Not a huge shout-out, but not too embarrassing, either. Actually feels about right.

So when I regularly played pickup games I would play ferocious defense, which admittedly led to fairly regular conflict, but the simple fact was that if I took the best player on the other team and kept him from shooting, or at least from shooting easily, we’d usually win and stay on the floor. For hours, sometimes. Worth the occasional shoves and fisticuffs.

Watching this hurts.

I remember when i used to watch the allstar games when it felt like it meant something… This is like a cut-rate harlem globetrotters, except we are the generals, and no-one is laughing

Julius taking lessons from Obi for the leak-out and the basket.

I took Alan’s advice and got into The Last of Us. Very good, and definitely a better watch tonight than this game.

I really wish they’d have an episode where Joel & Ellie just have a nice day. Every time I’m 30 mins into an ep and nothing bad has happened to them I get really excited that maybe this is the week where we just get to watch them kick it and chill. Never is, though.

I’ve been enjoying The Last of Us as well…

pretty good suff for a video game story…

watching it I keep thinking that I wish they had used this kind of format and production value to make World War Z…

watched the movie Prospect last night (also with Pablo Pascal)…fun little sci-fi flick…

There are some good videos of old all-star games. Here’s a narrated highlight reel from the 1971 game…lots of Knicks legends participating…and the soundtrack is straight out of a Dirty Harry movie…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rvWTccXkDo