Now we’ve dispensed with the introductions. Craig Sager is an Enormous Man! Seriously, he is towering over Jason Kidd, and he’s 6′4". Okay, not towering, but taller.
Okay, what is up with those jerseys ?

Now, normally, when you see an image like this on a website, you think that the bigger picture is the home jersey, and the smaller, inset picture would be the the away jersey. Not so, here. The picture at left is one jersey. The front is blue, and the back is white. The Western Conference jersey, below, is the same way. Or, rather, the opposite way. The front is white, and the back is gold. It looks like it was the NBA’s attempt to make it look like neither the east nor the west looked like the home team. A noble gesture, but when you are watching a game, it’s extremely disorienting.
For instance, when Chauncey Billups, from the East is guarding Steve Nash from the West, you can only see the white front of Nash’s jersey and the white back of Billups’ jersey, so it looks like Chauncey Billups has gone insane and started guarding his own man. But when Nash passes the ball to Amare Stoudemire, his teammate, you can see his white front and Stoudemire’s gold back, and it looks like Nash is the one who has gone insane, throwing the ball straight to the guy in the other colored shirt.

I wonder how many turnovers this confusion is causing during the game. It’s hard to tell because All-Star games are usually so sloppy, anyway, but I have to think that it’s having an effect.
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More to come!