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00:00All right, Gilbert sell me on this all-star weekend. Nobody in the NBA wants to even sell this not even the broadcasters
00:06Not even Charles Barkley or Shaq right there. They're not even trying to sell this. I mean
00:11Anyway for okay. So here it is. It's four teams three all-star squads and a rising star squad
00:17There's a three-game tournament on
00:20Sunday instead of just the one game first team to 40 points determines the winner of each game and the winners get a hundred and
00:27325 grand why'd they do this Gilbert? I mean why I don't I don't get it
00:32You know, oftentimes people say if it ain't broke don't fix it
00:35But as we saw last year the all-star game format was broken and they're trying to fix it
00:39I don't know if it's going to work
00:41But at least they're trying something and I think the goal is to have the guys
00:45Compete and compete more than they have in years past and the games being shorter going to 40
00:50Hopefully they get more defense
00:52Hopefully we get some more bragging rights you bring in a team of young players who don't necessarily care as much and they maybe
00:57Have it on their mind to embarrass the older squads. Maybe they'll have a different sense of pride in that
01:02So I'm going into it with an open mind
01:03I'm a little leery of it and it definitely could go
01:06Not the way that they expect it to but the biggest thing that I hope to see is another level of
01:11Competition and see guys kind of take some pride for some bragging rights and a pretty nice prize money
01:17$125 in a day is not a bad Sunday
01:19No, definitely not. All right. So the three-point contest has the big names in this thing with Brunson and Tyler hero Kate Cunningham
01:26Damian Lillard is the favorite but I think fan duel is telling us this could be anybody because he's three-to-one as the favorite
01:31I mean Norman Powell so hot lately. Why not him?
01:34I'll throw you know a dart here at a plus 650 on him with the Clippers
01:39So look, it's a guessing game in this sort of thing
01:42Anybody can win but there's nobody plus 100 or plus 200 Gilbert tells me anybody's got a shot
01:47Right in these contests is anybody's game
01:49You have one bad around at the wrong time and everything just goes away from what you thought it would go
01:53For Damian Lillard looking to become the third player to ever three feet in the three-point contest
01:58I feel like I said the number three a bunch of times right there
02:00But he is from Oakland and right across the bay from his hometown. So maybe he'll be a little motivated
02:05I do like Norman Powell coming off a huge game last night in Utah. So it's all about momentum
02:10So a guy who hit a bunch of threes up to get 42 points last night in Utah
02:14so maybe he'll ride that momentum into the Bay Area and he will be a guy who will make people remember that he was
02:19Snubbed from the all-star game and wins three-point contest
02:22All right, and finally the dunk contest most anonymous dunk contest. I think in the history of the dunk contest
02:27There's no odds right now even on this Gilbert on Fandel. What does that tell you?
02:33Yeah, go ahead I mean, I honestly these guys Gilbert I have no I mean McClung I just know because of the dunk contest
02:39I don't even know who anybody else is
02:41Yeah, McClung also going for a 3p which has never happened before in the dunk contest
02:45It'll be interesting to see if that happens Booz Ellis is a guy there all your young players who look to make a name for
02:50Themselves the fine castle. I think maybe is a guy to go with he'll play a lot this weekend
02:54He's playing the Rising Stars game tonight. He's super athletic. So watch the fine castle in our contest