NBA All-Star Game

February 15th, 2015. It is time for NBA All-Star Game! NBA All-Star Game is a special annual game. Eastern Conference and Western Conference play against one another. Players and head coaches are chosen in fan balloting. Since NBA All-Star game started for the first time in 1951, it became an annual event. Every year, it is held on one weekend, so it is called “NBA All-Star Weekend”. Usually on Friday, there is Rising Stars Challenge, on Saturday, there are Slam dunk Contest and Three-Point Contest, and on Sunday, finally there is NBA All-Star Game. As a result, West All-Stars won the game against East All-Stars with score 163-158. From West All-Stars, Russell Westbrook got MVP this year.

The game itself is important, but there is other important thing too. The half time show. As I mentioned about Katy Perry’s half time show for Super Bowl, it seems like for big sports games’ half time shows are common and popular to people. This time, Ariana Grande was chosen to sing during the half time show. She sang “Problem”, “Love You Harder”, “The Way”, and her ballad “One Last Time”, and “Bang Bang” with Nicki Minaj. Finally she closed with “Break Free”. Most of people might be watching NBA All-Star Game for watching a basketball game of course. However, half time shows attract attention, and give the singers status.

I interviewed some international students about NBA All-Stars Game this year. Zeyad Al-ammar from Saudi Arabia, Computer Science majoring at Avila University, told me that he had no idea what the NBA All-Star Game is. When I explained to him what NBA All-Star Game is, he told me that he is not interested in basketball at all. Because in Saudi Arabia, soccer is the most common sport. I asked other international student if she watched the game or not. Uyen Dang from Vietnam told me that she did not watch it. I asked her if she even knew that there was NBA All-Star Game last Sunday, and she said “no”. She told me she is not a big fan of American Sports. Other international students told me the same thing. They didn’t watch the game.

As a result, it seems like international students are not into NBA All-Star Game after all. Some of them did not even know what NBA All-Star Game is. They grew up in other countries and they might not had the opportunity to watch NBA All-Star Game before, so it would not be important for them. Everyone has opinions for themselves and we should respect that.

This weekend, there is Academy Award. Let’s see what is going to happen!