NBA legend Larry Bird hopes players will ‘play hard’ at the All-Star Game
NBA legend Larry Bird urges players to bring back the All-Star Game excitement with a simple plea: play hard.
But one former All-Star has a different idea. Larry Bird, who played in 12 All-Star Games, spoke at the Legends Brunch on Sunday in Indianapolis and gave a simple advice to the 24 players who will play on Sunday night.
“The one thing I would really like to see is they play hard tonight in this All-Star Game,” Bird said.
“I think it’s very important when you have the best players in the world together, you’ve gotta compete, and you’ve gotta play hard, and you’ve gotta show the fans how good they really are.”
Bird was not the only NBA legend who implicitly criticized the 2023 All-Star Game. Commissioner Adam Silver confessed that people were “uniformly critical” of last year’s All-Star Game at his press conference on Saturday, and that he hoped for a better game on Sunday.
The effort level in the All-Star Game tends to vary over time. In 2020, for instance, the game was praised as a success because the new Elam Ending created a thrilling finish. But four years have passed and the league has already abandoned the idea. Maybe the players will feel ashamed of last year and play harder this time, but history shows that once the enthusiasm fades, the effort will also decline.
Many fans have suggested a Team USA vs. international players All-Star format that could create some real rivalries. Maybe a larger cash prize could motivate them. But in the end, it depends on the players. They are the ones who make the All-Star Game interesting, and no matter what the league does, nothing will matter if they don’t play hard as Bird wishes.
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Kolkata doctor rape-murder case: Sanjoy Roy, the main accused in the rape and murder case of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, on Friday turned emotional before a judge claiming that he was innocent.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had presented Sanjoy Roy before the court in Kolkata and sought permission for a polygraph test of the accused and suspects in the case.
He told the court that he consented to the test as he believed he was innocent. “I haven’t committed any crime. I’m being framed. Maybe this test will prove that,” the newspaper quoted Sanjoy Roy as saying.
The court then allowed a polygraph test to be conducted on Sanjoy Roy. It also sent him to
The lie detection test can only be conducted after obtaining the court’s and suspect’s consent.
Sanjoy Roy reportedly broke down when the judge asked why he was consenting to the polygraph test, reported.
