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The latter half of February is always an important portion of the NBA season, usually because of the trade deadline. Yes, the All-Star game tends to occur around this time as well, but as I have mentioned before , no one really likes All-Star games, in any sport. The NBA, however, has the unique ability to break this trend, due to its array of other competitions. In the All-Star game itself, either the East or West won, with an overall score of about 300, I think (as you can see, who cares). But the real excitement occurred earlier in the weekend, with the likes of the dunk contest and the three-point challenge. There are other competitions, such as the shooting challenge, but there's a WNBA player involved in that segment, so................ once again, who cares. The Slam Dunk competition, however, did impress, although the outcome was certainly expected. "Rookie" standout Blake Griffin (I say "rookie" because he was drafted a year earlier) wowed the crowd...

As I mentioned earlier this week, in a post about the Lakers' thrashing of the Cavaliers, TV has finally aired a show ridiculing sports analysis, the Onion Sportsdome. For those of you who still have not seen it, you can view some of the clips here . One of my personal favorites from the pilot episode was a clip entitled "Who Would You Kill?" In the segment, 'analysts' took turns explaining which pro-athletes they would kill and how. Although it was very humorous, I am not 'evil' enough to attempt to recreate it. Instead, I hope to offer my own segment, an optomistic flip of the Onion's clip, self-entitled "Who Would You Save?". In my hopefully weekly post of this sort, I will offer up a player accross sports, who I believe should deserve either more credit, or a change of scenery. Tonight, we will start off with "rookie" sensation Blake Griffin ("rookie" because he spent his first season on the injured reserve list...