Kevin Durant offers All-Star solution Adam Silver does not want to hear

Let's be real for a minute, the only good thing about the NBA's All-Star Weekend this year was the fact it gave us a chance to take a break from watching the Phoenix Suns lose. Although some time away may not have been what they needed, it did at least give the likes of Devin Booker a chance to recharge for the stretch run.

Booker wasn't selected for the midseason exhibition - not that he cares - while once again tweaking the game itself made it as difficult a watch as it has ever been. When you can remember seeing more of Kevin Hart on your television during the broadcast than the likes of Stephen Curry, you know that the product has gone wide of the mark.

Kevin Durant is in favor of the nuclear option with this whole mess.

It feels like the league was onto something when they had the game set up to give $100,000 to charity for whichever team won each of the first three quarters, before then playing first to 24 points for the final act in memory of the late Kobe Bryant. It might not have been perfect - the team captains angle certainly wasn't - but it added a sense of competition to the end of the game.

Outside of Victor Wembanyama - who looked visibly annoyed during defensive breakdowns throughout the games this time out - it was the same offensive fuelled malaise we've come to expect. Ryen Russillo recently said on his podcast that he's delighted there's essentially a week break around the All-Star festivities, because it means he can take a break himself.

Durant has now come out and essentially said the same thing - which you can check out in full as part of the Draymond Green Podcast with Baron Davis above - and thinks that with fans seemingly never happy about anything unless it is perfect, why not just cancel the whole thing altogether. That's of course never going to happen - there's too much money involved - but let's stick with him here.

What if the NBA was to actually cancel All-Star Weekend for one season, just so fans could see how much they actually do want it back. Players would love the additional time off, and it could be just the thing to convince everybody that - although far from perfect - it does actually have a place in the calendar.

If Christmas Day is the unofficial beginning of a season, then after the All-Star break is when the drive for the playoffs really begins. Football is over, and the league ramps up their national television coverage of games as well. This mini-break before the real fun begins has always been a nice marker, let's see how doing away with it even once makes everybody feel.

It would disrupt the rhythm of the top teams - not that All-Star doesn't - but everybody getting a chance to go to the beach to chill isn't necessarily a good thing. It might also represent one less opportunity for players to talk with one another, as it was an All-Star game that Durant and Kyrie Irving famously planted the seeds to team up on the Brooklyn Nets.

The concept of an All-Star game is a wholly American tradition as well, and is not something you see in other sports. Certainly not in the middle of a campaign. The NBA and other sports and leagues like the Premier League might borrow ideas from each other more than ever, but is this a direction they really want to go? Probably not, so just enjoy it for what it is.... if you can... this year was bad though...