Jokic could be right. The NBA might be at a point where players simply do not care about the All-Star Game, and the league might just have to accept that. Jokic is one of the prime examples, as one of the league's biggest superstars gives little-to-no effort in the star-studded exhibition match.

While the NBA's new All-Star Game format this year was potentially fun in theory, the execution of it by the league and TNT turned it into an absolute mess that seemingly everyone watching

After a 19-minute break in the middle of the All-Star tournament’s championship game, players struggled to muster up the energy to finish the game.