Compared to last year’s outstanding All-Star Weekend, this year’s event fell short. As even CBS Sports pointed out “THE REALLY, SUPER, UNBELIEVABLY UGLY: That Dunk Contest”.

During All-Star weekend much of the broadcast was interrupted by many commercials and sponsors. What everyone looks forward to is the Dunk Contest which is almost always one of the coolest and most exciting events. But like I mentioned, fell short to last years competition. We were expecting new talent to rise and to see Aaron Gordon redeem himself and win after losing last year to a close decision, but he  was eliminated. Despite that each contender took miss after miss at the rim, and decreased the exciting part of the contest. The All-Star game was moderate minus the fact that Joel Embiid was not selected for the Eastern All-Star team. It would have been great to see a Philly player back among the best of the best.

This year felt empty, it felt dried of excitement and fun. It seemed too forced, as if they were trying too hard to make this year better than the others but in doing so ruined the fun aspect. The 2016 ASW was fun, exhilarating, and even sad for it being Kobe Bryant’s last. Something I wanted to see was the reconnection of Dwyane Wade and Lebron James in which only James participated this year. Something that happened that night that made highlights was the end of the feud against ex-teammates Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant, which ended from a alley-oop from Durant to Westbrook that enlightened the game. During the weekend many people took to the internet with hate expressing how the ASW was trash and boring in comparison to past years, but most of this hate was directed towards the Dunk Contest that lacked the fun experience everyone has grown to know.