February** Dynamic Incentive Program
This year's All-Star is boring and ugly, and not only the fans feel it, but the players themselves know it. Doncic said that everyone is afraid of getting hurt, so the All-Stars are all playing around. Edwards put it more bluntly: I don't know how to make it [the All-Star Game] more competitive, it's just a holiday, and I don't think anyone wants to compete here." Doncic is a foreign player, and if he says it, he will say it. But Edwards said this, which is still a big surprise.
This year's All-Star, many young players have a perfunctory attitude. Banchero, Brunson, Maxey and Barnes all played less than 20 minutes. Shouldn't young people be full of youthful energy? Shouldn't you be eager to prove yourself? But these people are very similar to our young people now, who saw through the red dust at a young age and focused on a Buddhist system.
James, Durant and Curry are all old, and under Ragnarok, the league is in a star vacuum. Xiao Hua struggled to pick out three talents that could be made: Tatum, Edwards, and Halliburton. This is especially evident in Haliburton, where the NBA gives a huge boost, but none of the three have the consciousness and ambition to grab power.
What does Edwards' statement look like: The decline of the All-Star Game is my business, I only care about the Timberwolves, and the rest of the country is flooded. Kobe Bryant and James played the All-Star Game seriously, were they fools? They also passed the torch from Jordan. When James wanted to pass the torch, he found that no one dared to take it.
A lot of people play All-Star and are also perfunctory, such as Duncan and Leonard. But Duncan won the All-Star Game MVP in 2000, and Leonard won the All-Star Game MVP in 2020. The scenery has been proud, and there is indeed a reason to give up the stage. Edwards has only been an All-Star twice, and he is like a regular in the All-Star Game. You haven't won anything, so what qualifications do you have to be here?
Now that the All-Star influence is visibly declining, Xiao Hua once had high hopes for Edwards, and now that he thinks about it, it's a joke.