All-Star Game or All-Star Shame?

By John Celestand | Word In Black (WIB) – I couldn’t let another minute go by before I turned off the game. It was bothering me so much that I figured I would just write about it.  I was going to kill the NBA and the All-Star game for maybe the worst display of basketball I’ve seen in a long time. Then I reconsidered and thought I’d just forget it, erase it from my brain, move on, ignore it, and just wait for the NBA playoffs, when the players usually seem to raise their intensity levels.   The problem was that the basketball purist inside my soul held me hostage and made sure I would do exactly as I was told. I was going to write this piece for every foolish half-court shot I witnessed, for every half-hearted sorry attempt at defense I watched, for every 50-point quarter that happened in the game, and for every minute that went by with the& best basketball players in the world& not giving a damn. RELATED: Shaq’s Raw Truth With Jason Kelce: Loneliness Hits Hard Yet the truth is, I was still concerned with being called a hater — which, in my opinion, is...