NBA Halftime Break

It's halftime break for the National Basketball Association (NBA) and as far as halftime breaks goes, the world's most explosive basketball league does not just lie down and rest.

In the NBA, halftime breaks mean the NBA All-Star Game. And what a show it was as we saw the NBA's top talents put on a show in front of a sell-out crowd at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.

ON THAT NOTE, we will take a look at the good and then the bad that surrounds this league we call the NBA as this season went the halfway point last Sunday.

What are the good happening in the league right now?

Well, of course there's CP3. Casual basketball fans know him as Chris Paul, and he is making quite a stir in Oklahoma City as he led his New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets above .500 coming to the All-Star break.

Also doing quite well at this point of the season is Chauncey Billups.

Basketball pundits knew the Pistons are good, but they had no idea that they will be THIS good. Billups is having an MVP-type season. And with the Pistons now free from Larry Brown's conservative style of basketball, they are opening up the offense behind the tutelage of new head-honcho Flip Saunders.

As for the bad, well, there's the biggest disappointment of the NBA in the Miami Heat.

Despite having assembled a roster to be reckon with, (Think the Lakers with Payton and Malone joining the Shaq-Kobe era) they just can't seem to get it together and beat the elite teams of the NBA.

Also, the Shaq-Kobe feud is gone for now and that's also a bad thing. It was fun watching those two jaw at each other in interviews.

What's next for the NBA? Tune in on the world's most exciting league as the NBA resumes the second half of the season.