Stephen A. Smith, Max Kellerman and Kendrick Perkins debate whether the NBA should cancel the 2021 All-Star Game.
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0:00 Stephen A. says the NBA shouldn’t hold the All-Star Game.
3:00 Max shares his thoughts on the NBA holding the All-Star Game during a pandemic.
5:47 Kendrick Perkins says having the All-Star Game is a ‘stupid’ idea.
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How about this let’s play the all star game in a stadium like Dallas when you can open the dome up and you can allow people to go the game also bc it will be inside/outside prombelm is solved
All star game is bs they don’t play defense anymore dunk contest is so wack 3pt shoot out is barely anything special I rather go to the park and play wit friends then watch little to no effort nba pros
How don’t they have a choice….. just don’t play! What they going to do fine you 🤷🏿♂️
Come on y'all, we know the All-Star players just mad they cant go party somewhere for 5 days. Now they gotta fly somewhere and play an extra game without being able to party like usual. They dont wanna be babysat 🤣
Ay Max really getting on my nerves these days…
The problem is what nobody is talkin about in this segment…it's Lebron…Lebron is the reason for all of this when it comes to this problem wit the all-star weekend….I say that cuz he broke the mold… Julius Erving, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Vince Carter……it was suppose to be Lebron James to carry that mantel to influence mother superstars to come out an battle and not be afraid to put their brand on the line and have enuff to keep their brand alive even if they lost….. he coulda influence Soo many especially if he won
It has to happen. We all need this right now. Players get paid too much to be saying they don’t wanna play. It’s their job. Most of us will be watching from home anyway. Bunch of divas kmt
Cancel the All-star game. It's so stupid that it's happening. I hope no players attend
The league lost like a bill. They need the game. One game, not a weekend. Mayor Bottoms ( im from Atlanta) should just shut down the city that weekend to keep covid under wraps
There always better things to do or watch than the all star game.
I swear max should stop acting like he is a medical expert!! COVID cannot be spread around as easily as he always acts… the human body has a very strong immunesystem
From the bubble to the petri dish
Max: "The game is a vector for covid. 30 different people from 30 different teams come there then go back to their organizations." Please. The NBA is regularly testing their people. Max is full of 💩💩💩 Also this narrative that the NBA players must have all the power and they need this trust from owners and the league blah blah. STFU. Players are the employees. They get paid boat loads of $ and get all kinds of cray perks. Stop the oppressed millionaire professional athlete narrative. It's utter stupidity.
Just make it a 2k game like what the NFL did😂
Have marshawn lynch play
The NBA should do an E Sports All Star Game. Have the All Stars Play 2K for charity.
The Allstar MVP this year is DOGECOINS
I havent watched the NBA in a year. They showed their true colors this past summer. Left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe when the fans come back but it just feels so fake and boring now.
Atlanta mayor knows the strip club and everything finna be pack because of the all star weekend hotel prices going up right now because of all star weekend
I wish they didnt have this allstar game
Agree with Max
I'm from Lower Bottoms West Oakland n I love dat name Keisha Lance Bottoms Mayor of Atlanta n a Sista . Yee!!!
Honestly I hadn't heard anything about this game until yesterday when I received a email from my boss about working it at lenox square..But I see why now..But for the NBA, it's money and a tv show..Yet players and people involved could still catch COV19…Still don't know if I'll work it..my birthday is that weekend..🤔🤔🤔
The money can always be made up. Can ya imagine if the worst scenario happens because they went ahead with the game???
It’s about money not feelings
Atlanta been getting it popping FUC YALL TALKING BOUT
You can’t justify cancelling a game because of covid when they’re playing 71 games during a pandemic
NBA have a contract with the tv net work
The all star game been boring to me for the past few years it's not exciting anymore
Its all about the money.who cares if they all get cov
Perk…please retire you cannot and I repeat, can not be on ESPN anymore. You have graduated from idiot school.
LMAO it's ok to play regular season games and a championship games but its tooooooooooooooo dangerous to play an all star game GTFO
"Interest in sports widely has deminished"
WRONG! I'm home all day and I miss watching the NBA, my favorite sport, but I have zero interest in the Marxist NBA of China and the WOKENESS they promote.
what if for some reason during that event some went to be positive unknowingly, may it be a staff from the nba or a player unaware coz even with all those swabs and test, the results dont come on the spot like some bloodtype testing. for sure everyone and i mean everyone from that venue would possibly be exposed to the disease and God forbid those are star players of the league, the NBA would be on a bigger financial problem than just forfeiting this single game. coz we know any government wouldnt want anything in that gravity to happen, but if it happens to NBA who know how it will affect the sports industry in general, remember it was just coz of gobert that the season was almost cancelled last season, and now it every superstar of the league
You don’t want multi-millionaires to party, so you set the all star weekend in the black party capital of the country… Makes perfect sense
Bra NBA soft af go work a real.job
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