Why You're Wrong about the NBA All-Star Game

There are three types of people who talk about how awful the NBA All-Star Game is.

One, there are the outright racists, although secretly, they must adore a good deal of the All-Star Weekend proceedings.  If you think I just took a veiled shot at Chris Brown and Nikki Minaj, you are incorrect, because it is veiled no longer.

Two, there are hardcore NBA fans.  For some reason, a large number of the people who love the league the most feel the need to sh!t on an exhibition.  The biggest problem with this class of hater is that it provides the intellectual arguments that the third, far larger class of haters employ for evil purposes

By far the most damaging class of All-Star haters are the guys who don't watch sports but feel the need to express forceful opinions on them, or as they are more commonly known, Colin Cowherd.

Three classes of haters, all with different agendas but united in their complete and utter wrongness.

Because the NBA All-Star game is fantastic.  You know what was awesome?  Almost everything that happened at this year's all-star weekend.

We had a rookie/sophomore game that featured Blake Griffin, Jeremy Lin, a pissed-off John Wall, Kyrie Irving, and the ever-present threat of  Big Cuz undoing all of the progress he's made and doing something monumentally stupid.

We had an All-Star game where Kevin Durant tried to make a claim to being the best player in the league, Lebron James beating him down with a fourth-quarter for the ages, and Kobe proving he's still the league alpha dog by talking smack to the game's best player while Lebron imploded.

And the best part?  We had one of the worst slam-dunk contests ever.  Complaining about bad TV is the surest sign that life has passed you by.  In the social media age, there is NOTHING better than bad live TV. Nothing produces more comedy, if you're subscribed to the right Twitter feeds.  Plus, even a bad slam-dunk contest featured a scrub that will never get minutes in a real game executing a double alley oop.  That should give even the most casual of Colin Cowherds an appreciation of the sheer amount of athleticism in the league.