42 minutes of actual basketball was played at 3 hour all star game

[Mr Puddles]

42 minutes of actual basketball was played in the 3 hour All-Star game. Twice as much (80 min) was ad time.

Minutes Break-Down:

• Intro (with ads): 30 min
• Pre-Game Talk: 10 min
• Game 1 (Kenny vs Chuck): 12 min total (10:07 of actual game time)
• Mr. Beast Challenge: 5 min
• Game 2 (Shaq vs Rising Stars): 16 min total (12:54 of actual game time)
• Music Performance: 6 min
• Inside the NBA Tribute: 9 min
• Game 3 (Chuck vs Shaq): 14 min total (10:40 of actual game time)
• Post-Game: 6 min

totals:

• Analyst Desk/Game Intros/Segments (total):
  22 min
• Ads (total): 80 min

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[HangTime]

NFL is similar, there's like 12 minutes of live play.

[picc]

Illustrative of a wider, general issue of the NBA believing its fans have the attention spans of mentally disabled children. Go to any arena game and any dead time is filled with the equivalent of a 3-ring circus because they think people have to be stimulated every second or they'll lose interest and revolt. This just took that concept about three levels higher.

I think Adam Silver cares deeply about the NBA. I think he has the best of intentions with every one of his moves. He also seems like an emotionally intelligent man who believes in the best in people and wants the best for people. I think he worries about the NBA losing popularity and knows the ASG has been trash in the past, so he threw everything he could think of at the problem. Everything at once.

This manifested as over-production and hyper-stimulation to distract viewers from what he feared would be an underwhelming ASG, and provide any and every kind of entertainment as an appeasing alternative. Which ironically hurt more since one of his changes (team elimination format) actually resulted in competitive play for the first time in years, which was all we cared about, but was severely undermined by the long breaks and over-production.

I think Adam is a good guy and I think he cares. But he cares too much sometimes and loses the forest for the trees. As a result I spend most of my time pausing and waiting for things to be over so I can fast forward them and get to the actual thing I came for.

[UcanUwill]

That is why I am an not NBA fan anymore. Most of the time, I don't even watch the game being played. But its American product, and Americans love American Football. It is just accepted over there and Silver has undermined the product as much as he could to get as much cash as he could. I am dredding their Euro expansion, it will probably just crash and burn, if Silver thinks wider Euro audience will acceot the game where over 65% of its time, clock doesnt even progress, I think he is very wrong, but if they challenge Euroleague, an actual good product I am a fan of, I would hate that ***.

[nomansland]

When I found out I had a work event to attend this weekend I thought, "cool, I won't miss any basketball games."

It's surprising real basketball fans actually watch the all star event. It's not basketball, it's not entertaining, it's not fun, and it's been this way for more than a decade. Wake up.

[GoBobs]

Still probably the most competetitive basketball I can remember seeing played in an allstar game.

[Sofia]

That is why I am an not NBA fan anymore. Most of the time, I don't even watch the game. But its American product, and Americans love American Football. It is just accepted over there and Silver has undermined the product as much as he could to get as much cash as he could. I am dredding their Euro expansion, it will probably just crash and burn, if Silver thinks wider Euro audience will acceot the game where over 65% of its time, clock doesnt even progress, I think he is very wrong, but if they challenge Euroleague, an actual good product I am a fan of, I would hate that ***.

It’s funny, because Americans will trash European jerseys for having a sponsor on it, like soccer/football jerseys in a game that lasts 2 hours with nearly 100 minutes of play after stoppage time… then they’ll go back to watching the pristine uniforms runnings around Tampax stadium brought to you by Gillette with a Pepsi Timeout and the McDonalds half time show that is in the middle of the 4 hour broadcast for 60 minutes of running clock with less than 15 minutes of ball in play with the rest of it being ads

[-Luke-]

That's progress. Usually 0 minutes of Basketball is played in the All-Star Game.

[UcanUwill]

That is why I am an not NBA fan anymore. Most of the time, I don't even watch the game. But its American product, and Americans love American Football. It is just accepted over there and Silver has undermined the product as much as he could to get as much cash as he could. I am dredding their Euro expansion, it will probably just crash and burn, if Silver thinks wider Euro audience will acceot the game where over 65% of its time, clock doesnt even progress, I think he is very wrong, but if they challenge Euroleague, an actual good product I am a fan of, I would hate that ***.

It’s funny, because Americans will trash European jerseys for having a sponsor on it, like soccer/football jerseys in a game that lasts 2 hours with nearly 100 minutes of play after stoppage time… then they’ll go back to watching the pristine uniforms runnings around Tampax stadium brought to you by Gillette with a Pepsi Timeout and the McDonalds half time show that is in the middle of the 4 hour broadcast for 60 minutes of running clock with less than 15 minutes of ball in play.

Yeah, I brought this point many times. I much rather watch Basketball game where timeouts are 60 seconds long, but teams have sponsors on uniforms, instead of what NBA now is.

I think no American even brings this point anymore, because they know they lost that argument. 20 years ago, they had a point, now the American sports product has become what it is, some broadcasts even commercialized coach challenges, broadcasters read ad scripts, all the stuff is presented by this and that, its sad. You never forget that this thing only exit for the money, its just business and nothing else. Euro basketball is more amenity than business, almost every Euro basketball team is losing money, and being funded by municipalities and stuff, to just exist for people. And they take sponsor money to keep existing, fans actually appreaciate sponsors instead of hating them, thats the idea. Americans I bet can't even perceive such a thing, organized sports that isn't just 100% business.

[Dupp]

Still 40x more action than hand egg.

[Inigo Montoya]

Unfortunately, I wouldn't even call the basketball that was played 'actual basketball.'

[Zeno]

I thought the format was fine and they tried ever so slightly which was nice. But the broadcast was absolutely the worst. So to me this wasn't on the players or necessarily even the NBA though I'd hope they'd have some input. This was TNT f'ing it up, (perhaps intentionally out of bitterness for losing the rights deal?)

[sashaturiaf]

And if you don't like that. You don't like NBA basketball

[JayMKE]

Allstar Games are even worse basketball than Summer League

[zimpy27]

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[og15]

I estimated 40 minutes, so not too far off. I did enjoy the 2hour and 20 minutes of commercials, Kevin Hart, interviews and random conversations.

[Kingsway_fan]

Stopped watching nba allstar games once clown Silver took over... NBA players don't take it seriously anymore, so why should I?..

[Shaka_Zulu]

This is why I dont watch it live, besides being too late for me in my euro time zone. I watched it over breakfast and litterally skipped every time consuming pauses of games/ or ads.


Only non game I watched besides few silly interviews was the music performance and that kid shooting for 100k, and Dame blocking out the annoying Mr Beast so the kid could focus on shooting lol

[bkkrh]

Pretty much what I expected when it was initially announced, so didn't watch it in the first place. Also, why still call it the All Star Weekend? Inside The NBA Weekend seems more fitting. It's actually kinda sad that the NBA as a Billion Dollar business basically completely relies on Chuck, Kenny and Shaq. And of course Kevin Hart. I have no idea why that dude is so involved in NBA stuff. I can imagine the internal discussions that go on when they talk about how to make an event more popular. "How about we bring in Kevin Hart? That worked well in 2010, let's give it another shot." Maybe next year they can also bring in Sisqo, or Ja Rule, or Brandy, or some other Celebrity nobody has cared about the last 10 to 20 years.

[JujitsuFlip]

Where can I get some of this Dapper Dan stuff?