I’m pretty sure somebody is going to play defense in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game, but it’s going to be difficult to pinpoint an exact time and location on the court.

To their credit, NBA honchos (what a great job description!) have figured out that they had game was broken and something must be done. You’d have thought they would have mandated defense as a logical first step, but hey, let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.

Somewhere along the line, the All-Star Game went off the rails. The league is so certain that people wanted to see 192-182 that it did everything in its power to make that happen.

By the way, while you weren’t watching, that was indeed the score of last year’s game. See?

The NBA is the league that came up with the All-Star Weekend idea and is the one thing it has over football and baseball (the weekend, not the game). I could do without Jamie Foxx trying to break Justin Bieber’s ankles with a crossover dribble in the Celebrity Game, but there are some good events. The Dunk Contest has made a decent comeback after being left for dead a few years ago and the 3-point Shootout has had some memorable moments.

The rest of the events are not legitimate — including the actual game. But the NBA knows it, so this year they had the two leading vote-getters choose teammates from those who were elected. That gives it a certain playground bravado attached to it that might induce the players to actually play for bragging rights. (100 large to the winning team members certainly isn’t going to be an incentive; they’ll spend that much on Uber alone this weekend.)

So go ahead and attempt to watch Sunday night and if you somebody takes a charge or double-teams off a pick-and-roll, don’t say you haven’t been warned.