Tag: All-Star Game

PHOTOS: Best moments from Celtics’ Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown in the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Game

Let’s take a look at the best of Brown and Tatum in the 2024 All-Star Game captured in images.

While there were certainly no shortage of things for people to complain about in the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Week and All-Star Game, the annual exhibition tilt and the contests going on around it were their usual controversial self.

People had complaints about the level of effort in the week’s main event as they usually do, and there were cool new wrinkles (Steph vs. Sabrina, for one) as they usually are. The changes made (and unmade) are a story unto themselves, but star Boston Celtics forwards Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum shone brightly in another of their several appearances in All-Star Week.

Let’s take a look at the best of Brown and Tatum in the 2024 All-Star Game captured in images.

Celtics Lab 241: Breaking down the good, bad, and irretrievably broken of All-Star Week with Clemente Almanza

What were the good, bad, and irretrievably broken aspects of the week-long event?

The NBA’s 2024 All-Star Game has come and gone, and with it the successes of the Boston Celtics who participated. The week of All-Star festivities saw some significant changes, but perhaps none more so than the actual All-Star Game itself.

Gone were the target score endings and charities for each quarter of the event, along with the East vs. West dissolving playground-style team choosing. The ostensible goal — stronger player efforts on both ends of the court — was decidedly not reached with a record-breaking offensive output. But it wasn’t all bad — what were the good, bad, and irretrievably broken aspects of the week-long event?

To talk through the state of All-Star Week, how the Celtics did in it, what needs to change and what was done right, the hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast linked up with Thunder Wire editor Clemente Almanza.

We also touch on the post-deadline order of the West, where OKC sits in it and who will come out of it in the 2024 NBA Playoffs, so buckle up for a bumpy ride into what All-Star was and can be.

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LeBron James told the corniest joke about his first All-Star Game and Nikola Jokić ate it all up

Nikola Jokic would’ve gobbled up anything LeBron James said.

In his 21st season, LeBron James has become something of an NBA elder statesman. He is an all-timer, still chugging along at an elite level, still mingling with some of the biggest names in basketball.

While sitting on the bench during the 2024 All-Star Game, James deployed a tried and true (but very cliche) old-age joke when he first played in an All-Star Game. While Luka Doncic and Paul George probably understood the corny “old school” route James was taking with his gag in advance, Nikola Jokić ate it all up.

Sometimes, you just gotta let a legend get some low-hanging fruit jokes off:

Corny as it is, it’s still funny hearing the almost 40-year-old James make reference to Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Cousy. It’s low-hanging fruit, but I can at least understand why Jokić thought it was funny and why he wanted to hear more from an icon like James.

Top 10 3-point shooters in Notre Dame women’s basketball history

Who has most hit from downtown in Irish history?

Several months back, former Notre Dame guard [autotag]Jackie Young[/autotag] advanced to the finals of the annual WNBA 3-Point Contest. But nobody was going to beat Sabrina Ionescu, whose final-round score of 37 was higher than even the highest score ever recorded in the NBA version of the contest. Almost immediately, many wondered how Ionescu would favor in a shootout with NBA 3-point king Stephen Curry.

This past NBA All-Star Weekend, fans got their wish. It was the highlight of the weekend with Curry needing the final rack to beat Ionescu, 29-26. There are hopes that something like this can continue next year and beyond, especially with women’s basketball increasing in popularity.

While we contemplate the future of women’s basketball and only can guess what it holds, we know who’s helped lay the groundwork for that future. Among them are the top 3-point shooters in Notre Dame history. Since 3-pointers are the latest thing to bring male and female basketball players together, let’s see who rounds out the top 10 for the Irish:

Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics are the talk of the town at All-Star weekend

You may have noticed that there has been a lot of Boston Celtics-inflected stuff going on at the 2024 NBA All-Star Week’s proceedings.

You may have noticed that there has been a lot of Boston Celtics-inflected stuff going on at the 2024 NBA All-Star Week’s proceedings. That is largely due to the fact that the Celtics happen to be owners of the best record in the league and are favorites to win it all this summer.

For that to happen, they do of course have to play the games, but from the 2024 NBA Dunk Contest to the All-Star Game itself, Celtics players like Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown were ubiquitous. To talk it over, NBC Sports Boston’s Chris Forsberg linked up with former Celtics champion center Kendrick Perkins.

Perk and Forsberg get into all things Celtics and All-Star, the state of the MVP race (and where Tatum is in it), the impact of Kristaps Porzingis and more.

Check it out above!

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Every Boston Celtics All-Star for each season the game was played

Every single Boston Celtics All-Star in franchise history.

The 2024 NBA All-Star Game is set to kick off in Indianapolis, Indiana. A pair of Boston Celtics will be part of the action for the third year in a row as Jayson Tatum plays as a starter and Jaylen Brown a reserve for the Eastern Conference All-Stars.

Tatum and Brown join a long list of Celtics stars who have participated in the event, now entering its 73rd year of existence, which actually got its start in the old Boston Garden. Initially created to improve the image of professional basketball after a point-shaving scandal in NCAA ball besmirched the sport in the eyes of the public, the event has taken on a life of its own as one of the league’s most anticipated events.

Let’s take a look at all the Celtics who have taken part.

Every Boston Celtics head coach of an All-Star game in NBA history

A total of seven Celtics coaches have earned the right to coach the All-Star game by owning the East’s best record that season.

About a year ago, the Boston Celtics were poised to make history by sending the first interim coach to helm the NBA’s 2023 All-Star Game, which is why the Celtics will not be having Mazzulla coaching the 2024 All-Star Game.

The rules prohibit repeat performances in that role, sending the nod to a Boston coaching alumnus in Doc Rivers (now with the Milwaukee Bucks) instead, who coached the game himself as Celtics head coach in 2008. With all of that in mind, let’s take a look at the Boston alumni who have done the same over the course of the event’s long history. A total of seven Celtics coaches have earned the right to coach the All-Star game by owning the East’s best record that season.

Let’s take a look at who they were and the seasons that it happened in.

Are the Chicago Bulls set to have another post-All-Star Game collapse?

Could this be the second season in a row that the Bulls fall apart in the stretch run after the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Week?

Are the Chicago Bulls set to have another post-All-Star Game collapse? After a puzzling decision to stand pat at the NBA’s 2024 trade deadline, the Bulls are evidently hoping that continuity and improving health power the ball club forward for the remainder of the league’s 2023-24 season.

But internal growth in this sport is rarely linear, and the rest of the Association’s Eastern Conference teams have, by and large, also gotten better while Chicago has stood still. Could this be the second season in a row that the Bulls fall apart in the stretch run after the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Week?

Or might Chicago have aplan in place to add talent via the buyout market to help fuel a second-half resurgence for the Bulls?

Haize, the host of the “Chicago Bulls Central” podcast, took some time to talk over how the end of the season for the Bulls might go on a recent episode. Check it out above!

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Reaction: Alperen Sengun misses out on 2024 NBA All-Star honors

Alperen Sengun wasn’t named to the list of Western Conference reserves for the 2024 NBA All-Star Game. Here’s how Rockets fans and media reacted to the news.

Entering Thursday, Alperen Sengun is the leader of a much-improved Houston Rockets team (22-25) in points (21.9), rebounds (9.2) and shooting percentage (54.1%) on a per-game basis. But at least for now, that won’t be enough to earn 2024 NBA All-Star honors.

Sengun, 21, wasn’t among the seven Western Conference reserves announced on Thursday night. His closest frontcourt competitors to make the team were Karl-Anthony Towns of the Timberwolves and Anthony Davis of the Lakers, and both have much more experience.

While Sengun finished No. 5 overall among West frontcourt players (and well ahead of Towns) in fan voting, fan votes were only considered in determining All-Star starters. In contrast, reserves were solely determined by voting ballots from each team’s coaching staff.

With his big-man competitors having longer NBA track records and playing for teams with better win-loss records, that may have given them more exposure to coaches around the league. Keep in mind, Sengun is in just his third season, and the Rockets have played only one game all season on national television.

Sengun could potentially be added to the West All-Star team at a later date, should there be an injury withdrawal or two. The game is scheduled to take place on Sunday, Feb. 18 in Indianapolis.

For now, here’s how media members and fans following the Rockets responded to Thursday’s disappointing news on social media.

NBA Twitter reacts to biggest All-Star snubs: ‘The NBA is super talented right now’

Here’s how NBA Twitter reacted to the 2024 All-Star Game snubs.

The 2024 NBA All-Star Game reserves have just been announced. And as per normal, fans have already selected the biggest All-Star snubs.

Here’s how NBA Twitter reacted to James Harden, Rudy Gobert, Domantas Sabonis among other players not making the roster.