It’s no secret that the 2025 NBA All-Star Game on TNT wasn’t all that well received by those watching at home. And if the on-court action wasn’t enough to bring viewers to that conclusion, NBA on TNT analyst Draymond Green did a great job of convincing fans that the new format was a bad one.
On multiple occasions, Green sounded off about players on Candace Parker’s Rising Stars roster not “earning the privilege” of taking the court on Sunday with the rest of the All-Stars.
While some appreciated Green for his honesty, others, including Michelle Beadle, thought it was a bit hypocritical of Green to be so against the format change. One of the major reasons the league has altered the format as much as it has in recent years is the lack of competitiveness over the years, particularly in games he was involved in as a player.
“I’m not against biting the hand that feeds you to a point,” said Beadle on Monday’s edition of Beadle & Decker with cohost Cody Decker. “But that was out of control. Here is my problem with it Draymond. Why the hell is the league having to do somersaults to try and tweak and fix and change anything at all? Oh, that’s right, that’s because you and your colleagues years ago had decided that you don’t really give two s**** about the All-Star Game. So you don’t really put any effort into it.
“But if you take away our resume moments… ‘We gotta have it for our resume. Because when our legacies are all said and done, it needs to say eight-time All-Star, even though I don’t care about being an All-Star.’ We are here because of y’all. We are here because nobody cared anymore or had any pride in it. Or cared about being in the Slam Dunk Contest, or any of those things. That is why we are here. So you don’t get to wreck the car and then b*tch about the car being in bad shape.
“You did this. If this thing would have played on the way it used to play on when I was a kid. And people actually cared and there were actual bad feelings between the two teams how it is supposed to be in competitive sports, we wouldn’t be tweaking this and putting something named Mr. Beast in the middle of my All-Star Game for ten freaking minutes of bad television. I am sorry, I love the NBA, I love the idea of change to make things better across the board of anything that we are talking about. But don’t cry about something that you had a hand in making happen in the first place.”
“You don’t get to wreck the car and then bitch about the car being in bad shape.”
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Beadle is not the only one who pointed this out about Green. Green’s TNT colleague Charles Barkley also critiqued the effort from his generation of players in past All-Star Games.
Green and Beadle disagree with what the biggest issue around the NBA All-Star Game truly is. But regardless of who you agree with, it’s clear that the modern-day version of the once-beloved event may simply be broken beyond repair.
