It’s the NBA Allstar Weekend once again, the time when players get together, journalists hang out with them, and every person takes a much-needed yoga exercise breath before the season starts to get serious.
NBA Allstar Weekend: A Black Thanksgiving
Since most of the players are of color, CNN dubbed the whole NBA Allstar Weekend event as The Black Thanksgiving. No racist pun intended. I mean, come on, the best players in the NBA are mostly of color, right?
NBA Allstar Weekend is Also for the fans
The NBA Allstar Weekend is not just for the players, coaches, owners and staff. No sir! It’s for the pro basketball fans as well.
Lots of events are on just to make them happy.
There’s the dunk contest which is still ongoing some changes as it tends to bring out the worse among the fans. I don’t know how they get to be sore losers.
According to ESPN, there’s Gonna be an Allstar Friday, Allstar Saturday and Allstar Sunday packed with entertaining events.
Schedule of Activities for the 2011 NBA Allstar Weekend
Saturday evening holds the Three-point sweepstakes and Expertise contest, in addition to several other events as described on NBA.com. These events will kick off Saturday evening at 8:30 Evening EST on TNT.
Sunday, will be the Eastern side versus Western NBA AllStars striking the hardwood for your mid-season classic. The sport starts in 8PM EST on TNT and will feature Kobe Bryant, Lebron, Dwayne Wade, Dwight Howard and many more stars and they’ll battle for bragging rights. The 2011 NBA AllStar Weekend sports events will be held in the Staples Centre, Los Angeles.
Will you be in Los Angeles for the NBA Allstar Weekend 2011?