Barack Obama has spoken for the whole of America, hell, the whole world when he roasted the appalling state of the All-Star game.
The All-Star game used to be the pinnacle of the sport, where the best of the best players would come together and battle it out.
But now, it has been reduced to an almost training-like scrimmage, with players barely trying, as they are worried about sustaining injuries.
Obama is absolutely fed up with it.
“Y’all gotta have a little more pride in that All-Star Game,” Obama said on During an appearance on The Young Man and The Three podcast, formerly JJ Redick’s The Old Man and The Three, now hosted by Tommy Alter and the Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton,. “It’s not as if you all don’t play pickup during the summers. You know how to play in a way that, ‘Alright, I’m not going to hurt anybody, I’m not going to take anybody out.’ But that All-Star Game, it’s broke, man.
“It insults the game,” he continued. “This is your business. This is your product. You don’t want people thinking you’re all out there just half-assed … Take it more seriously. Y’all need to do something because I ain’t watching that thing no more.”
The most recent All-Star game in February was a complete blowout.
The Eastern Conference defeated the Western Conference 211–186, which was the most points ever scored by a team at an All-Star Game.
The teams played pretty much no defense and Adam Silver sounds like he’s given up entirely on the game ever being competitive again.
“We may be just past the point where guys and teams are incentivized to play a competitive All-Star game in the middle of the season,” Silver said during an appearance on NBA Countdown in June. “It’s the nature of the league.”
