1979 NBA All Star Game

Wow, is really really sad that I enjoy the hell out of this footage , today’s NBA, especially the All-Star game has become extremely unwatchable. These guys are actually playing defense in an All-Star game.

They actually played basketball in this All-Star game era

The Skywalker!

1500 kareem hacking shit outa doctor no call where is darryl? best ever!! dawkins!

pistol!!! thats who should be nba stencil

How were Kareem and Artis Gilmore teammates here?

The year of my birth.

the last game Magic didn’t start in the all star game Im sure

Ice , Pistol , Dr J , A Train , Skywalker, bring back nicknames !

legendary.

A very well done national anthem, very nice.

Wow a lot of these players have passed away
Davis
Lucas
Johnson
Lanier
Malone
Maravich

Jayne Kennedy was definitely a bonus 😊

Weird seeing San Antonio and Houston representing the East

As great as it was for the league, the 80s and more so the 90s took away from what had been a great game in my old man opinion. The 70s was far more exciting than what happened when Michael Jordan came of age and took over the league. The early 80s with Lakers/ Celtics renewed rivalry was admittedly , a magnificent thing to watch.
Btw.. what a line up this game had!!!

Notice how much more beautiful basketball is WITHOUT the 3-point line.

I like how they are not in a rush to get up, they respectively wait for the pa announcer to finish the introduction.

Nobody cracked a smile during intros

San Antonio, Houston and The Jazz all in the East??

This was the real NBA I was 13 and I know everybody on the floor and they all were great

RIP George McGinnis!❤

Basketball, not a concert like today

Keep in mind this is just a year before Magic and Bird came along!! Then David Stern took over and the NBA would never be the same

I went to that game. When I drove up to the Silverdome, it was crazy. People and cars EVERYWHERE! GREAT game.
Still have the ticket stub. Sold the ptogram as it US ugly. A silver program. Some moron designed it. Like the 1971 Detroit MLB allstar program. Almost all white ? including a kid and player. UGH!

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Todays All Star Game….and, really, the NBA, is more Broadway than basketball.

Notice how the game is totally devoid of James Hardin/Kyrie Irving style ball dominant bs. Sound fundamental ball didn't allow for a lot of the crap fans are watching today.

Hondo great player but what a stiff on the mic

You definitely got your money worth. They cared more about entertaining the fan vs load management of today

Nobody stands around. Constant movement. They need to bring that back.

Awesome no 3 pointers haha

As of 2024, this is the last time Detroit has hosted an NBA All-Star Game. I think Little Caesar's Arena is due to host it at some point in the near future. Unless they want to host it at Ford Field.

It’s funny that the NBA has placed the Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs in the Eastern Conference since they are geographically west of the Mississippi River at the time.

When the game was a game to be played not some high-scoring no defense farce. West 134 East 129.

Wait there’s actual defense

This is awesome!!!! Pistol Pete playing next to the Ice Man!!

I was 1 year old not knowing about this nba basketball

But 70s 80s 90s it was just different era

magnetic video tape doesn't hold up at all!

How do you transfer the analog VHS signal to digital videos?

Look how serious everyone looks during the introductions, some smiling, but looking like they're about to go to work, which they are. Today they would just be goofing around like little kids

last time the ASG was in Detroit!

2 years before Isiah was drafted by Detroit

Commentators:
Brent Musburger, Steve Jones & John Havcliek.

Many put down the 70's in regard to the NBA. It was such a different time, everything was more laid back and fun. The league had issues during that time, including a bad drug problem. Playoff games were on tape delay - including the championship outside of DC and Seattle. Still, most of the players had passion and cared, today, the league is a joke.

Detroit hasn't hosted an nba all star game since how surprising

Calvin's only ASG. He was jobbed out of about 4 others(Musberger obliquely refers to this in his intro), this selection was almost a "makeup" because the NBA finally realized how he had been screwed over. He was having a very good year, but he had several others that were incredible and he was overlooked. It's really a shame, because there are people now who like to point out that he was only a "one time" all star and because of that doesn't deserve to be in the HOF. Fact is, he should have been a 5 time AS and was one of the greatest college players of all time. Yeah, it's the "Basketball HOF", not the NBA HOF. Those people can't read, either.

As an 80's baby, I've always found it odd to see San Antonio and Houston in the Eastern Conference!

No Boston Celtics made the All Star team that year 😮

Are the height measurements mentioned in the intros calculated including the Afros or not?