Philips Arena, Atlanta
From the day they chose their players, we knew: Team LeBron would beat up Team Durant, that was confirmed this Sunday in the NBA All-Star game which ended 170-150, with Giannis Antetokounmpo as the top scorer with 35 points and 100% shooting from the field in 16 tries.
Team LeBron 170-150 Team Durant
If your starting grid is LeBron James, Steph Curry, Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo, you have “won the war” and this was demonstrated by them and the reserves, with Damian Lillard in deadly mode also scored with 32 points and eight triples, maximum equal to Chef Curry.
If we add that Kevin Durant was absent from the match due to injury, the balance was more than unfavorable despite the effort of Kyrie Irving and James Harden because he tried to carry the offensive weight in the selection of his Nets teammate.
Team LeBron won each of the four quarters within the format introduced in Star game in 2020, where the first three are played with a separate score and 12 minutes on the clock, while in the last period the previous scores are added and the goal is to add 24 units, this as tribute to Kobe Bryant because of the number he wore on the Lakers.
According to those rules, the goal in the fourth period – which is played without a clock – was to score 170 points, reached with a triple kilometer of Lillard for the yellow team’s victory, which resulted in a $ 1.25 million donation for a university fund chosen by King James.
Antetokounmpo was the All-Star MVP
With his 35 points scored three triples in the same attempts and without missing a single shot during the evening at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Giannis Antetokounmpo added to its collection of individual trophies – which already has two Most Valuable Player of the Season awards – the MVP of the 2021 All-Star Game
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