Kevin Durant wouldn’t mind seeing the NBA pull the plug on All-Star Weekend.
2025 NBA All-Star Weekend in San Francisco, Calif. ended up as a total dud for both fans and players alike. The worst of the worst came on Sunday with the NBA All-Star Game taking on a new format and devolving into a mostly non-basketball spectacle featuring extended airtime for the likes of Kevin Hart and Mr. Beast, a long and drawn-out mid-game tribute to the “Inside the NBA” crew, and enough commercial time to turn your television into a screensaver.
Fans on social media loudly (and rightfully) complained about the production with many calling it the “worst” All-Star Game ever.
In response to the backlash, the Phoenix Suns star Durant took to social media to voice a radical suggestion — for the NBA to cancel All-Star Weekend altogether.
“I think it’s more fun to complain about the nba than to actually watch it. Crazy, cancel all star weekend and let’s just give everybody a break since we’re so miserable around this time…”
Durant’s suggestion here was a little bit tongue-in-cheek, and he did write in a subsequent post that his point was that “fans complain about EVERYTHING.” But it is well worth noting that Durant himself complained about the new All-Star Game format when it was announced back in December, slamming it as “terrible.”
For a variety of different reasons (mainly financial), the NBA will never cancel All-Star Weekend. The greater point though is that the league has a fundamental watchability problem right now with the All-Star Game, and neither the outside-the-box tinkering nor the classic East-West format (featuring defense-optional, 400+point shootouts) is the solution here.
