All Star

So this is what I have gathered from reading about All Star weekend, a lot of attention, and rightly so, focusing on the NBA and the help they have generated in the community of New Orleans. It's interesting, I read an ESPN magazine story about the NBA and how it is viewed by the public. Most people think the game is filled with thugs and self-centered, drug smoking hoodlums. And I wouldn't argue that there are those kinds of players out there, but seriously, this league does more community service work than any other major professional sports league, yet this gets constantly shoved aside by the general public. It is time the league received its due.

Other All Star hubbub, whether or not LeBron James should have been MVP, most people think it should have been Ray Allen. I think it is stupid to let the fans decide in the first place, it is not a popularity contest, so don't make it one......and I will get two new vending machines for center hall.

Then of course is the dunk contest, which Dwight Howard won (see all of his dunks here), due mainly to the fervor surrounding his non-dunk Superman dunk, but I was quite impressed, but it was a year too late for him to win, as I think this dunk should have garnered more attention than it initially received.