Day 181

Fresh Start_181: Binge Weekend
Some people say that June or October is the best time of year because all the 4-Major sports markets are in the middle of seasons, and you can turn on the TV and watch whatever you want. Well, the middle of February has to be the worst time for sports fans. The NHL is rounding up their regular season and not many games are on, Spring Training has begun in Florida and Arizona, but they haven’t started playing any games, the NFL is in their weird grey period between the Super Bowl and free agency, and the NBA is at the All-Star break.

So, if you turn on your TV in the middle of the day on a Saturday or Sunday at this time of year, you may catch an uninteresting college basketball game that is being played somewhere in the middle of the country. The Oscars aren’t even on this weekend—we have to wait a week for that. So, in the dawn of this boring weekend, the weekend of the NBA All-Star break, I would like to officially call this weekend “the weekend of binge watching.” Catch up on whatever shows you missed, movies you meant to watch, or anything that has peaked your interest in the slightest this weekend.

The NBA All-Star weekend is almost as boring as the Pro Bowl is for the NFL at this point. The Slam Dunk contest was awful, the 3-point shootout was decent, and a stretch power forward won the Skills Contest {Porzingis}. Something needs to change with the NBA because I’m at the point where I am just going to skip over this weekend like I do with the Pro Bowl. I’ve already touched on how I think the All-Star games have a problem and need fixing, I just didn’t think it was this bad…
*This is also the 450 article I have posted to this blog, I am extremely excited with the direction it has been going in 2017, and I cannot wait for the future. Also, this blog reach over 13,000 page views during this past week, so thank you for that!*
Sources:(nba.com)
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