NBA All-Star Weekend 2024 is in the books, so its time for the annual event's winners and losers ...
WINNERS
Scoring
Given the frequency of 60- and 70-point performances this season, scoring was a major topic of conversation at All-Star Weekend. Just about everyone was asked if they would change the rules to address the explosion, and all of them answered as you would imagine. Shooters would not change a thing. Defenders would.
And then everyone abandoned defense entirely for the actual All-Star Game.
The East made a record 42 3-pointers on a record 97 attempts (43.