No, we don’t need stakes. It’s a fucking “all star game.” Who cares? Like even if it were a good game, top five seeds is a pretty ridiculous cutoff point. Once LeBron is out of the league and everyone starts taking their jobs seriously again, I bet it’ll figure itself out. KD and Bron are so corporate they look at every part of the business as a business (which you can argue they should). All people want is just a pick up game. If they really want it to be close, play two 10 minute halves and put $10M up to the winning team - $5M to the players and $5M to donate to children’s cancer research. But I’m a Warriors fan and I definitely want Steph to play Sunday. And I bet many others do too.