By Gura Garcia
Feb 19, 2024, 10:26 AM EST
The NBA All-Star Game returned to the previous format where the best players from the Eastern and Western Conference faced each other, the same one that changed since the 2018 edition and this time The victory was won by the East with a score of 211-186, in a game that took place in the city of Indiana, the same city that is home to the Pacers.
From the match score it is evident that the defense was absent throughout the match, but still, the demand of the confrontation was palpable as each player on the field, and even more so with the ball in their hands, sought to score. no matter how showy or striking the way he did it. Trae Young, point guard for the Atlanta Hawks, was one of the stars of the night when he hit Kevin Durant of the Phoenix Suns and later scored a couple of points with a floater shot.
Fantasy plays at all times
‘KD’ had his moment of revenge, but this time against another Eastern Conference player, Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillardby scoring a layup against him and then seeing him and making the sign “Very small” and making the game much more spicy and entertaining.
The first half culminated with an advantage for the Eastern Conference with a score of 104-89 with Tyrese Haliburton, the point guard of the Indiana Pacers in a stellar plan with 22 points to his name while, in the west, Damien Lillard had the same number of points scored.
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry was quite active as usual with his long-distance shooting and you could also enjoy the enormous amount of jokes and mockery made by the European duo, Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets and Luka Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks.
During halftime Luka Doncic took time to enter his social networks and respond to an X (formerly Twitter) user who criticized a pitch his from behind half-court. “2 for 1, analytics,” the Slovenian wrote alongside an emoji with sunglasses. This caused many laughs and fun moments in the arena from the fans who could see this response at the moment.
Haliburton at the beginning of the second half of the game had a moment that will remain in the memory of NBA fans, since He imitated the elbow pass of former player and point guard Jason ‘White Chocolate’ Williams, to give an assist to Damian Lillard.
Most Valuable Player of the match
In a game where scoring was not lacking, the top scorer of the night went to the player from the Dominican Republic and member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Karl Anthony Towns, who scored a total of 50 points, and would have won the Most Valuable Player award if it had not been for the defeat of the Western conference.
Damian Lillard, for his part, was chosen as the MVP of the night upon finalizing the victory of the Eastern Conference.
Records broken in the All Star Game
Among the records that were broken, the most notable was that this was the edition with the most points scored by both teams in an all-star game with 397 and surpassed the 2017 edition where a total of 374 were scored.
The Eastern Conference became the team that scored the most triples in an all-star game with a total of 42 In addition to being the first to overcome the 200-point barrier, the two teams managed to score a combined total of 67 shots behind the line.
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