Friday: Rising Stars Game
I loved, Loved, LOVED watching this game. I fell in love with so many new faces including Kyrie Irving, Paul George, and Landry Fields along-side some more familiar faces like Blake Griffin, John Wall and the infamous Jeremy "LINsanity" Lin. Charles Barkley's team beat Shaq's team with a final score 146-133.
*The Rising Stars team rosters will be listed below.*
Saturday:
- New York's Landry Fields, Allan Houston and Cappie Pondexter, brought home the win for the Shooting Challenge. LEGGO NEW YORK!
- Out of the 6 competitors for the Skills Challenge, 3rd place went to Deron Williams from the NJ Nets, 2nd place went to THE WONDERFUL RAJON RONDOOO FROM THE BOSTON CELTICSSSSS, oh yeah, and 1st went to Tony Parker from the Spurs. Congrats fellas.
- Kevin Love from the Minnesota Timberwolves won the Three-Point Challenge beating out Kevin Durant. But how good did Mario Chalmers look tho? Like yum.
- And the main event. This is the first time, as far back as I can remember, where all of the Slam-Dunk competitors were rookies but Jeremy Evans took the trophy home with his award winning 2-ball dunk (pause). Paul George had an amazing glow in the dark dunk. Too bad we couldn't see it.
Sunday: All Star Game
East vs West. This year I was actually rooting for the West because
- I didn't know Rondo was in the All Star game and
- I absolutely LOVE&ADORE Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin.
I'm happy to say that the West brought home the W beating the East 152-149. So many records were broken in this game. As much as I hate to say this, I must give honour to where honour is due. So, congratz to Kobe for beating Jordans All Star point record.
