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Letters to Sports: Motivate NBA All-Stars to win with a cool half million

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After watching that sham of an NBA All-Star “Game” and feeling the same sense of boredom and annoyance as most other viewers, I have one very simple way to fix this. The players on the winning team each get $500,000. The players on the losing team? $5,000. That will get these unenthusiastic millionaires to play harder, that’s for sure.

Danny Balber Jr.
Pasadena

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The NBA All-Star Game, now an unholy alliance between H-O-R-S-E and a dunk contest, would benefit from three adjustments: (1) Play winners outs. The team that scores retains possession.