All Star Game has been broken for years but the party was real

Danny Bridges Now that the dust has settled and things at Gainbridge Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium are back to normal, it’s time to call the NBA All-Star Game exactly what those who truly understand the game of basketball have known forever. It’s an exhibition and without question a complete and utter failure that needs to be taken away from those who have no problem continuing this obvious& masquerade while turning a& rather robust profit to boot. It’s simply a party for the rich and famous and while there may of been a few mutts like myself allowed in, the bash itself was exclusively reserved for the beautiful people and no others. The overhyped fashion in which this “contest” is billed annually makes this old scribe shake his head as he thinks back to the days in which hard nose defense and old fashioned hustle was always on display the entire evening, and it met something to every player who graced the hardwood with the respect and dignity that those who came before them demonstrated.& Alas, those indeed were the days, when families could afford to attend without taking out a home equity loan and blue collar people could get...