{"id":491608,"date":"2026-02-16T16:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=491608"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:24:57","slug":"an-empty-nba-all-star-saturday-shows-what-happens-when-sporting-events-become-too-corporate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=491608","title":{"rendered":"An empty NBA All-Star Saturday shows what happens when sporting events become too corporate"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1r6fv66\/an_empty_nba_allstar_saturday_shows_what_happens\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/UsYHk8ygwYvTmDRSLg9roGAlPNpv5wLQimzxZR4V91k.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=23d6c42d1b8282c49a6cbc69c99c86afe2de0e15\" alt=\"An empty NBA All-Star Saturday shows what happens when sporting events become too corporate\" title=\"An empty NBA All-Star Saturday shows what happens when sporting events become too corporate\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/joe4942\"> \/u\/joe4942 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7047460\/2026\/02\/15\/nba-all-star-weekend-crowd-buzz\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1r6fv66\/an_empty_nba_allstar_saturday_shows_what_happens\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&#032; submitted by &#032; \/u\/joe4942 [link] &#032; [comments]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491611,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491608\/revisions\/491611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/491610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}