The mid-season NBA All-Star game has long been considered a favorite spectator event for basketball fans all over the world. It's a wonderful opportunity to see the best basketball players in the world come together to showcase their collective talents in an exhibition setting. For the players, it provides an opportunity to enhance the overall experience of being a professional basketball player.
About the 2017 All-Star Game
This season's All-Star classic weekend is scheduled to run from February 17 through February 19 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. This year's game was originally scheduled to be played in North Carolina, but was moved amid controversy surrounding the state's "bathroom bill." The weekend's supporting
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Current All-Star voting: for the Eastern Conference - Irving (G - Cleveland), DeRozan (G - Toronto), James (F - Cleveland), Love (F - Cleveland) and Antetokounmpo (C - Milwaukee), and for the Western Conference Curry (G - Golden State), Harden (G - Houston Rockets), Pachulia (C - Golden State), Durant (F - Golden State) and Leonard (F - San Antonia).
Why Players Are Excited To Play In New Orleans
Before beginning this discussion, it's important to note that beyond the players scheduled to participate, All-Star weekend draws a great number of the current NBA players who simply come in to enjoy the festivities. In fact, that's one of the main reasons NBA players get excited about the All-Star Game. It provides them with the opportunity to get together with their "fraternity brothers" to build camaraderie throughout the league and on an individual basis.
Another key reason NBA players look forward to the All-Star activities has to do with financial concerns. First, players do earn some level of compensation for being selected as all-stars and showing up to play in the actual game. This also applies to the supporting events such as the Slam Dunk Contest since there is also prize money and prestige at stake over all
The second reason I think NBA players shouldn't get paid as much is because half of the people on the team
Five Star Basketball Camp is a camp for basketball players that want to improve their skills and techniques on a high level of basketball such as the NBA better known as the National Basketball Association. The camp was found in 1966 and was the first specialized sports camp. Famous NBA players like Michael Jordan, Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Stephan Curry, Dwayne Wade, and many more attend this camp. Over 422 coaches that participated in the Five-Star camp have coached in the NBA or the NCAA. Not only the Five-Star camp is just for boys, it is also for girls that want to play basketball. The Five-Star camp has different location like California, New York, Texas, Florida, and many more locations for players that will put them on the court for
All these players left college early to try their success in the NBA. None of them had much luck. They could have been superstars in college winning the national championship, but they all went running for the money. The only way to keep these athletes in college is to pay them.
They can play in Europe, they can play in the D-League, they can go to college. This is a not a social program, this is a business rule for us" (Harrigan, 2012). http://blog.syracuse.com/sports/2012/04/are_one-and-done_players_bad_f.html. However, many choose to not play overseas, or within the D-League because the NCAA is a much better way for players to promote their skills to NBA teams and executives.
The money made off of the players is unthinkable when you get down to it. Everyone gets paid off of how the players play except the players themselves. In an ESPN article arguing both sides of whether to pay or not to pay on writer says “The true madness of March is the millions of dollars -- generated by the kids who touch the ball -- that goes mostly to the advertising hustlers, television suits, arena operators, concession hawkers, athletic gear manufacturers and retailers, university administrators, coaches and sports media noisemakers” (Lipsyte) and its true when you start looking at what
There has been no better time in history for women to break ground in the ranks of Major League Baseball.
In no way am I making excuses for these guys. I understand there are some people that may have a once in a lifetime opportunity to see these stars play. So, if the star they decide to go watch that day misses what do they get in return? There should be some sort of agreement between the NBA owners/coaches and Silver for some sort of
NBA All-Star Weekend is in books, and it might have been one of the better All-Star Weekends in several years. Although the All-Star Game wasn’t as competitive as most had hoped, the pageantry surrounding the event was at an all-time high as Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour made its latest stop at the Air Canada Center in Toronto. The Slam Dunk Contest might have been the best ever, the Three-Point Contest came down to teammates and likely the two best shooters in the world, and a big man pulled off the biggest upset of the weekend by winning the Skills Competition. The culmination was one of the better All-Star Weekends in recent memory.
The American League has already had to replace two pitchers on the All-star game roster, and White Sox starter Jose Quintana continues to be snubbed.
Making the All-star game is an achievement any player should be proud of and what the Chicago Cubs infield has done is nothing short of amazing. There is only one issue I have with all the hype about the upcoming event. It is played in July. Last I remember, the Cubs were swinging for October and losing the World Series wasn’t an option we were going to be satisfied with.
There could be a few reasons for this. One is that they are afraid that Jordan will turn his team into another dynasty and dominate the NBA again. Other reasons could be that they simply do not want to see Jordan take a chance on ruining his legendary title of the greatest basketball player of all time. I must say that ticket sales do not lie and overall, Jordan’s return was a success on this parameter of the subject.
For me as good as Harden is and how a healthy Dwight can be a beast in the play-offs, I still take Yao & T-mac over H2o. Here are my main reasons:
We all know the NBA All Star game sucks. No one plays defense and none of the players take it seriously. This year's teams nearly had 400 combined points. The game is getting ridiculous. If we really want the All Star game to be exciting, two things need to happen:.
After transitioning to the shared space, inside Strike Zone Baseball, All Star Uniforms maximized marketing dollars by performing grass root marketing campaigns to reach new customers. Sharing email lists, presenting printed material and special offers to current Strike Zone customers saved thousands of dollars in the overall advertising budget. All Star Uniforms would also work with local game and practice facilities like Johnson County Park and Recreation and 3&3 Baseball to place small advertisements in and around the facility as well as web banners and special offers. While utilizing the relationship with Strike Zone training facility, All Star Uniforms would have a heavy flow of foot traffic which increased exposure to qualified customers
The NBA is one of the United States’ favorite sports leagues, with each team averaging 100 million dollars of income each year before expenses.