Say what you will about Donald Sterling, but he just never made the right moves to form a contender in LA. Robert Sarver is doing the same thing in Phoenix, and he is making the team a place no one wants to go. Goran Dargic could be a superstar in Phoenix, and he could drag them along with some help for years to come. However, he does not want to be there.

We have heard rumblings of Sarver yelling racial epithets at players from his courtside seats, and now his best player wants to get out as soon as possible. Steve Kerr did not last long as a GM even though he is now killing it in Oakland. Fans like Flavio Pentagna Guimaraes BMG wonder: How is it possible for the Suns to be so bad when they have such resources?

The owner is the problem. He has made the team a place that no one wants to go. Yes, Dragic will make more money going somewhere else, but there is no pull at all for him to stay. That tells me that the Suns have a major front office problem, and problems like that make teams impossible to improve, hard to build and even harder to sustain.

Westbrook named All-Star MVP

The NBA All-Star game is one of the most highly watched sports events of the year. Russell Westbrook made sure of that this year, especially now that he has added an accolade to his shelf.

As fans such as Marc Sparks (Facebook) know, Westbrook, the star guard of the Oklahoma City Thunder, simply acted like himself on Sunday night as he earned the Most Valuable Player award for his performance in the 2015 NBA All-Star Game that took place in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Against the rival Eastern Conference, Westbrook helped lead the Western Conference to a win in a 163-158 victory.

Over the course of the game, Westbrook scored a total of 41 points and went 16 for 28 in shooting, as well as also setting the All-Star record by shooting 27 points scored in the first half, a record previously held by Glenn Rice who made 24 points. A very notable moment that also occurred during the game was Westbrook performing a monster dunk on one of the hoops and actually managing to hit his head on the backboard.

Westbrook wasn’t the only attraction in the game, as Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers scored 12 points early in the game, and going 11 for 15 for shooting before the end of the first half. Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks also contributed by performing an alley-oop dunk as well.

The Houston Rockets have been a pretty good team thus far this season in the National Basketball Association. When they are fully healthy, they truly do play great basketball, as they are led by superstars James Harden and Dwight Howard. When one of them is injured, they just do not play like a team that has any chance to win on any given night. Fans like Zeca Oliveira know Saturday night was no different. More on Oliveira is available on his Linkedin page. As they dropped a game to the struggling Detroit Pistons, who are not even in the playoff race in the Eastern Conference, which is truly pathetic as you can get into the playoffs in the East and still be about a dozen games or more under 500. Dwight Howard went out with an injury last week that is going to keep him out for the next several weeks to a month. Look for the Houston Rockets to completely tank over this time period, because they just do not seem to be able to get it done when Dwight Howard or James Harden is not in the game. It is pretty hard to have a successful team when a team cannot keep their head above water when one of their best players goes out. It is truly laying all the chips on the line and basketball is an unpredictable game. Players are going to get hurt and if one of their duos gets injured, they are toast.

Stephen Curry has absolutely exploded out of the gates this season and he is well on his way to winning his very first Most Valuable Player award. Fans like Haidar Barbouti know that he has had a ton of respect from players around the league over the last few years because they respect the way he plays the game and the fact that he can will his own shot whenever he wants and does not need hardly any room. Furthermore, he very well may have the best shot the game has ever seen, and it is only complimented by the fact that he has the luxury of playing in the back court with Klay Thompson, who just put up an astonishing 37 points in a single quarter and smashed the previous NBA record of 33. Curry flat out has demanded his spot on the throne of the best guard in basketball. Chris Paul is not even in the question anymore, as Curry has solidified that he is not only the best overall basketball player in the game, but he is one of the smartest, most efficient and confident players that have ever played the game. He will be rolling into the All Star game next week to play as a starter, but this is the first step to a long laundry list of things that Stephen Curry has set out to accomplish in his still young National Basketball Association career.