Yeah really sad how the NBA AllStar Game has turned as bad as the Pro Bowl. The last one I really enjoyed watching was when Mutombo decided he was going to play defense in 01 or 02.

Good old days❤ nba basketball without 3 point line

The 3-point line has ruined true basketball at all levels.

True brother so true

Dr. J that's why he Is.

Had he been on a team with more great players he'd have a few rings

Pistol Pete and the Iceman on the same team, good lord!

This was the Pistol's last productive year and a couple years later he was out of the league. RIP

Exactly!

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Rick Barry.elgin Baylor Billy Cunningham bill Walton Dave cowens Jo Jo white Walt Frazier Willis reed Dave debusschere Gail goodrich...alot of greats in this era

The rules evolve and the players have to evolve their games to the rules. I prefer the talent of the old school game

They were all deserve to be called stars. All of them were great players. I am 76, and they were fun to watch back then in my time when I was younger, .extremely talented and skilled players.

Well said

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What a backcourt with him and Westy!

Ugh fucking cocaine, screwed the careers of both Thompson and Gervin. Still kills me that Ice was a shell of his former self by age 33 and the Spurs dumped him for scrub ass David Greenwood because of how much coke had taken from him. I imagine Nuggets fans had to feel the same about losing Thompson.

No the fuck they wouldn’t

@@domudeh3691 Uh, yeah they would.

NOPE!!

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Don't forget that Bobby Dandridge was also on the 1971 Bucks championship team too!

...and they played who in those 2 finals?

Bobby Dandridge was one of my favorite players to watch when he was on the Bullets.

And wes unseld ...great team

Plus, one of his best assets was the fact that he had just terrific finishing skills, and that's with either hand, even with some nice dunks plenty of times. Paul's very overlooked these days, also because injuries took him out in his prime even before he got to reach 30 years old. You should watch these 1977 NBA All-Star Game highlights though: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNl6epiW0JvKm30.html Westphal should've been named MVP on that one... Julius played a great ball game but Paul was extremely clutch on both ends while being the best player for the team that WON.

Yeah he played really well with each hand always.

Paul Westphal is finally getting his due. He will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this September. It was long overdue. I used to remember how effortlessly he was capable of nailing jump shots all over the floor. I always believed he was a great player.

@slip satch I first watched Paul Westphal during a game on MSG during a Suns vs Knicks game back in 1977-78 season. Westphal was casually hitting jumpers all over the court in the 1st. quarter. As a Knicks fan, Westphal was pissing me off, because the Knicks couldn't stop him. But I always admired his game. The voters did Westphal and quite a few others wrong for not getting him into the Hall sooner. I look forward to listening to his induction speech.

@slip satch Red Aurbach while with the Celtics knew how to search and find talent. How do players like Westphal, Cowens & others get selected? It was all Aurbach. Red Aurbach and Jerry West were the best on finding talent through the draft or via trade. Once Aurbach retired from the Celtics, the franchise collapsed for a period. Only Danny Ainge has made the Celtics significant again with his work. I continue to read and learn about the Celtics for the moment during their 1970's run.

Yes

IDK, I think Moses Malone may have been the strongest. I got to be a ballboy for the Spurs in the late 80s and watching just how ridiculously strong Malone was from 5-10 feet away sitting inside the Hemisfair Arena basket support was just mind blowing. God I would have hated to play against Moses, and this was past his prime Bullets Moses, not Rockets/Sixers MVP Moses. Though Artis was strong as hell, as my dad can attest to having taken a spike to the face playing against him in volleyball at a BBQ put on by the Baseline Bums back when the Spurs players used to come to them (the head of the Bums made an amazing brisket that drew a lot of the players to come).

Nell Bowie IT SURE IS.

Players union ruined the sport

threeby8887 .. they wore their own team warmups. . .something they've always done I think

Justin Fencsak this is real basketball!

Yes. Grown men who respected competition, the game itself and each other. No crybabies in those days.

Why do todays players hug and touch each other after every foul shot,man that looks stupid?

manny4552 People in general today are soft. the NBA players are all friends and make too much money. They are less competitive and SOFT!

What is interesting, too, is that the league wasn't commercially popular back then, in the pre-Bird vs. Magic days. As a result, the All-Star game was played on Sunday afternoons!

This is when guys played to WIN in All Star games......

+bart simpson Yea, when Tom Heinson coached the ASG he used to seriously yell at them for not hustling or turning the ball over.

Rom 8 YEAH. Today's ALL STAR game SUCKS. To much hoopla & hugs & kisses.

Kumbaya basketball = Today's modern NBA All Star Games. NBA All Star Game RIP after 1998.

Lol yes

Jordan says Thompson was his biggest influence. They both played collage at North Carolina and NC State.

@@redhorse6652 Jordan was a bigger Walter Davis fan.

David Thompson was better than Jordan. A better dunker!

Ben DC4L I think Davis was a Carolina man

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also San Antonio!

When the Mavericks were born in 1980, all three Texas teams were placed in the Western Conference. Bulls and Bucks went to the East.

Maravich and Jabbar top 10

She alright

@M soccer should not be considered a sport.

How can you tell? They only showed her face. You want to see a smokeshow check John Salley's girl in this vid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7ycgJSZmtzbqY0.html

She had that 1970s sexiness, femininity, and beauty.

Artis Gilmore did win an ABA tiltle with Kentucky

Pistol Pete was an honorable player. He did not play the game just to fill a roster spot. With his knee blown, Pistol Pete was never the same again although he was still a pretty good player post knee injury.

Artis was a big part of a pretty good Spurs team in 83. Ugh if only the Spurs could have had him in 79.

I liked that too lol

Why?

Just a unique period at that time. NBA basketball, especially the All Star Games had that unique camaraderie at games between fans, players and others.

I think he was trying to hit on him....

Agreed, easily the best All Star uniforms the NBA ever had

Now that I think about it... There "shouldn't" be so many of them - from this ASG - gone; they all died very early in their lifes though, only Moses reached 60 years old... RIP to him, Dennis Johnson, Pistol Pete and Mo Lucas.

AND THATZ ALL I GOT TO SAY ABOUT THAT!!!

I remembered the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets at one point in the Eastern Conference which was still a bit confusing at that time. I never knew the Chicago Bulls though were once in the Western Conference. It's almost like the old NFL divisions. The NO Saints and Atlanta Falcons were once in the NFC West back in the day.

marques jihnson is still alive

I meant dennis johnson

Iceman is greatness. Forgot how good Westphal was though.

I miss John Havlicek. I was too young to appreciate his game. Despite learning the game in 1978-79 season. I had two posters in my room. One was of Earl Monroe, the other was of John Havlicek.

@@toddsands6000 AWESOME! And Earl the Pearl Monroe was such a great player too, though I do not remember him from his Baltimore days, but from his later NY Knicks days.

@Ed Vega - I primarily remembered Earl Monroe when he finished his career as a Knick as well. My poster of "Earl The Pearl" was him driving against a pair of New York Knicks players. I was initially confused at that time being so young because Earl Monroe was wearing a Baltimore Bullets jersey. And I was only aware of the Washington Bullets at my young age. There were so many things at that time I did not understand. But I liked the poster. My old man mentioned to me that Earl Monroe was at his best as a Baltimore Bullet. I grew up a Knicks fan, and I received a Havlicek poster of him making a layup. And I simply taped it to my wall. Although "Hondo" was wearing the dark Celtic green jersey, for some reason, he seemed to be a great player to me despite not knowing too much about him at that time.

Back when the game was played by men.

@@toddsands6000 yeah havlicek was awesome

It actually makes more sense that way though if you think about it

Horace Blige ...You probably weren't around then.

Afros we're always Cool when weren't they?

@RayDill 6061...Totally lol. I always used to say the same thing when he played for the Knicks. I thought he was half asleep every time I saw him on TV.

The announcers for this game were John Havlicek and Brent Musburger, however, "Hot Rod" Hundley was a good announcer, a good NBA player and a great NCAA player. There is footage of him, at an advanced age, making crazy hook shots from deep out.

I blame Musberger for the origins of "Fake News".

@@archiveprotector COOL

Bill Melton and Isiah

Bill Melton ...Julius Erving revitalized the NBA.

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