All-Star Weekend Review

I have to say that this was one of the better All-Star Weekends in a while. There was definitely a youth feel in some of the competitions but that was fine. I think we are really seeing that players like Chris Paul, Deron Williams, and Brandon Roy are going to be special players for a while. I thought Saturday night was great The skills contest was truly competitive and it's always nice to see previous records broken. In the 3-pt shootout, I really liked Jason Kapono going into it because he is shooting 51% from long-range this far into the season. He is a true shooter and showcased it for the second straight year. The dunk contest was incredible. Truly full of some of the most original dunks (which seems so hard to do these days) and creativity. Dwight Howard put on a great show last year and this year he dared people to not vote for him. I think his best dunk was actually the self alley-oop off the backboard. The Superman dunk was great, and I strongly feel it's harder to actually throw the ball through the hoop rather than dunk it, but his others were technically harder to pull off. Tell me the highlights of that contest weren't Mutombo's reactions or Kenny Smith's amazement. It's just a spectacle the whole night. The actual game last night was very good in my mind and the players seemed to be competitive throughout. Kudos to the East for coming back strong to get the victory and LeBron for putting up the numbers he does on a typical night. His driving dunk was just great and you don't see something that emphatic at a crucial point in All-Star games.