Stuff I forgot to mention earlier:

How about Walter McCarty breaking us off with some stunning national anthem? Somewhere Tommy Heinsohn was going nuts. And I bet that, even though he's played in front of huge crowds for his entire career, getting up there and singing the anthem a cappella had to be the toughest thing he's done – except for maybe getting Antoine Walker to pass him the ball.

I still think the 3-point shootout would be much more entertaining if the contestants were along the lines of Shaq, Chris Kaman, Greg Ostertag, Joel Pryzbilla, Zydrunas Ilgauskus, and Nazr Mohammed.

I like the Shooting Stars competition. It is infinitely better than 2-ball could've ever hoped to be. I'd like to see something along the same lines done with the Bears and Sugar Bears. We need a UCA All-Star Saturday after the season. Or, thinking ahead, for next year's midnight madness. It wouldn't take much to do the shooting stars deal, some skills competition, some 3-point shootout and some dunk competition for the guys. The women are more than welcome to have at the dunking too, if Seals brings in anybody who can throw it down. Of course, I guess we haven't seen Katie Nicholson play yet so there's no telling what she can do.

Interesting stat from the night's festivities: Despite advancing to the next round, Quentin Richardson made more shots in tonight's 3-point shootout than he has all season long. Evidently he's had all kinds of trouble scoring since Brandy left him.

It cracks me up how the announce team was excusing the poor shooting all night by saying the guys are game shooters, not practice shooters and all that. Yeah ... I'm better shooting off the dribble than I am spotting up, but I'm not just great either way. NBA players, no matter which way they excel more, should be pretty darn good at both.

I also get a laugh out of TNT popping up the graphic with the payouts for the winners of each event – as if any NBA player cares about getting $35,000. They'll have that spent by night's end. I want to see every one of them handed their big check at the end of the competition. You know one of them would be like Kenny Rogers to Joe Rogan at the end of the Celebrity Fear Factor skit on Mad TV.

The winnings should automatically be donated to some charity in the athlete's name. Or at the very least, they could not pop up the graphic so that people watching at home wouldn't have to think "man, he's making as much tonight for hoisting some 3-pointers as I do in a year" then drop off into a depression.

I hate Josh Smith for not jumping from the tape.

That's all.