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Celtics fans need to stop saying Jayson Tatum isn’t clutch

It’s also not fair to blame him for not meeting Larry Bird until All-Star Week.

The NBA All Star Game always have an over lining theme of nostalgia. The event is not only the greatest compilation of current NBA talent, but it also reunites more NBA legends, in one city for a long weekend. For many, it’s absolutely basketball bliss.

CLNS Media sent two reporters and a camera crew to cover the star-studded event for 2024. Needless to say that when it was apparent that Hall of Fame Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird would headline the entire week, more than a few Boston fans felt a twinge of envy for those in attendance. CLNS’ Nick Gelso sat down with reporter Bobby Manning to talk about the Jayson Tatum meeting with Bird and all things All-Star on a recent episode.

They also discuss the impact being around Larry Legend had on the all star players, especially our Celtics, Tatum and Jaylen Brown.

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Why the NBA’s All-Star Game was unwatchable, and how to fix All-Star Week

The All-Star Game itself bombed after reverting from the playground-style team picking and target score endings, and the Dunk contest was somehow both better AND worse.

Even days after the conclusion of the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Game and All-Star Week festivities, people are still reflecting on the many flops involved. But they are also still talking about a few of the high points, so maybe this event can be saved — or at least improved.

The All-Star Game itself bombed after reverting from the playground-style team picking and target score endings, and the Dunk contest was somehow both better AND worse in that the dunks were largely repeats. But there was a Boston Celtics star making some of the flushes, which was cool. Stephen Curry vs. Sabrina Ionescu was a seminal moment — that the broadcasters managed to sully.

And there are plenty of ideas out there in the ether of how to make things better, too. The hosts of the CLNS Media “The Big 3 NBA” podcast weighed in on a recent episode.

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Can the NBA’s All-Star Week be fixed?

Could there be new wrinkles added to boost engagement? Or is it all pointless anyway, given the game is an exhibition tilt?

By now, we all have heard the many complaints about various aspects of the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Week festivities. From the overall lack of effort in the All-Star Game itself, and inconsistencies in the judging of star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown in the Slam Dunk Contest to the sexism heard during Steph vs. Sabrina and the utter confusion that is the Skills Challenge, there’s plenty that irked fans to point to.

That it ended up happening despite the league’s best efforts to ensure a return to the sport itself over spectacle alone to bring forth a greater level of effort and fan engagement makes it worse.

Can anything be done to fix All-Star Week? Are there events that can be changed to make it better? Could there be new wrinkles added to boost engagement? Or is it all pointless anyway given the game is an exhibition tilt?

The hosts of the CLNS Media “Celtics Lab” podcast linked up with Thunder Wire editor Clemente Almanza to talk it over on a recent episode.

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Bob Ryan and Gary Tanguay have feelings about this year’s All-Star Game

Ryan and Tanguay analyzed the NBA’s All Star Game and the lack of competition in the tilt.

The esteemed hosts of the CLNS Media “Bob Ryan, Jeff Goodman, and Gary Tanguay” podcast were about as happy as the rest of us were with the level of effort put forth in the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Game. Whatever was in the water in Indianapolis did not exactly produce any better results than the changes NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Co. made to the All-Star Week‘s proceedings to boost player effort.

The eponymous hosts took note, and Bob Ryan and Gary Tanguay analyzed the NBA’s All Star Game and the lack of competition in the tilt, despite the league’s hopes on their most recent episode. Ryan also looked back on the All-Star Games of old and the players who would have made it more competitive.

Plus, Gary and Bob talk about Jayson Tatum meeting Larry Bird for the first time and address Bird’s distance from the Celtics organization.

Check it out in the clip embedded above.

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Boston’s Jaylen Brown 2024 NBA Slam Dunk Contest highlights

Brown’s dunks were solid, and helped breathe new life into a sometimes stale event.

Star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown was one of the only stars in several years to take part in the NBA’s 2024 Slam Dunk Contest in this tear’s All-Star Week proceedings, and just the fifth active Celtics player ever to take part in it. There were some justifiable grumbles about how the event was scored in some corners, but Brown’s dunks were solid, and helped breathe new life into a sometimes stale event.

The Georgia native paid homage to another No. 7-wearing Brown at the Dunk Contest in Dee, as well as former Boston forward Dominique Wilkins, before finishing off his dunk triumvirate with a tribute to fallen friend and teammate Terrence Clarke that struck a chord with fans.

The folks at CLNS Media put together a compilation of his best efforts from the event.

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A three-point plan to save the NBA’s All-Star Week

It’s not like it could get that much worse…right?

There may be no way to fully salvage the NBA’s annual All-Star Game. The league elected to get rid of several tweaks created to make the annual exhibition game more competitive by making it like a regular NBA game, only to see the tilt become almost unwatchable.

The same can be said for the events leading up to it. But we decided to throw out a few of our own half-baked ideas that could spice up the event we all love to complain about around the season’s two-thirds mark. They could also play the same way the NBA’s changes for this All-Star Game went (read: bad), but we figured we’d put them out into the ether just the same.

It’s not like it could get that much worse…right? So let’s take a look at each of our three ideas, then.

Looking back on the Boston Celtics in the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Game

What needs to happen for us to keep tuning in?

What do we think of the NBA’s 2024 All-Star Game, the All-Star Week of events before it, and how the Boston Celtics participating in both did? On one hand, there were new wrinkles that were very clearly a hit, like the additional 3-point shootout between Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry and New York Liberty legend Sabrina Ionescu.

On the other hand, the decision to go back to old-style formats that eschewed the target score ending, charitable donations per quarter, and playground-style team picking did not have the desired effect of bringing back some competitive fire to the big game. Is the NBA’s All-Star Game irretrievably broken? Are there still things that could save it?

Most of all, what needs to happen for us to keep tuning in?

The hosts of the CLNS Media “Garden Report” podcast linked up with Cameron Tabatabaie of Celtics Wire and the “Celtics Lab” podcast to talk us through the 2024 All-Star Game and how Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown did in it.

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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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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.

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