The 2023 NBA All-Star Game debuted today. Although Team Giannis captain Giannis Antetokounmpo might only play a symbolic game due to injury, Jayson Tatum and Donovan Mitchell teamed up to score and helped Team Giannis win 184:175. Tatum broke the All-Star game record With 55 points, he won his first All-Star Game MVP.
After the pre-game draft, it is determined how all star players will be divided into teams. The 2023 All-Star Game will set a new precedent and add new topics to this season’s All-Star Game, regardless of whether you want to praise LeBron James once more for his “LeGM” draft vision, or worry regarding it once more Giannis Antetokounmpo has been a worrying draft pick for the past two years, but LBJ has a post-draft lineup of himself, Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving, and picks Jayson Tatum, Ja Morant, Donovan over Antetokounmpo With the lineup of Mitchell and Lauri Markkanen, plus it has long been known that Antetokounmpo will only make a symbolic appearance in the All-Star Game due to his right hand injury, it seems that Team LeBron is indeed more optimistic.
After the game started, LBJ and KI led Team LeBron to take the lead, but following the captain retired, Team Giannis relied on Tatum and Markkanen to perform. Although the two teams did not have too much offensive and defensive confrontation, the score was always very close. The first quarter was tied. , each received a donation of 50,000 US dollars for each other’s charities, and Team Giannis won the second quarter, accepting donations for the Raise The Future charity they represented.
During the intermission, the NBA invited Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the former NBA historical scoring champion, who once challenged the historical scoring champion, but finally ranked behind Jabbar, the third on the current list, and Utah local legend Karl Malone to come On the field, a commendation ceremony was held for LBJ, who surpassed Jabbar to become the historical scoring leader. Dwyane Wade, one of the owners of the Jazz and his personal friend who had been a teammate with LBJ, gave a speech. Important notes on LBJ’s career.
It’s just that LBJ, who was not in good health before the All-Star Game, hit the basket with his palm in the first half today, causing a sprained finger. He mightn’t fight in the second half. Giannis was jointly fired by Mitchell and Tatum. Mitchell scored 14 points in a single quarter, and Tatum even wrote an All-Star game record of 27 points in a single quarter, helping Team Giannis widen the lead once more. At the end of the third quarter, the Celtics teamed up. , Tatum and Jaylen Brown, who are on different teams in the All-Star Game this time, also staged three heads-up duels that allowed the other eight people on the field to get out of the way to watch the show. .
Team Giannis won both the second and third quarters, not only won the charity fund, but also led Team LeBron by 17 points in total points, which made it difficult to achieve the goal scoring system in the fourth quarter when Team LeBron had to score 41 points In the end, Damian Lillard, Mitchell, and Markkanen failed to make several three-pointers during the “draw”, and following Tatum made another line-stepping error, Lillard still seized the left-wing three-pointer opportunity , made a three-pointer to end the game, helping Team Giannis finally win 184:175, allowing Team LeBron, who had won the captain team system for the first five times, to finally swallow its first defeat following LBJ formed a team six times.
For the first time in this star game, a trophy was created for the winner, and it was also received by Antetokounmpo, the captain of Team Giannis, following the game.
Team LeBron actually had seven players scoring in double digits. Brown scored the team-high 35 points and 14 rebounds, followed by Embiid and KI’s 32 points. KI had the most 15 assists in the game. Team Giannis scored two. In addition to breaking the scoring record in a single quarter in the third quarter, Tatum scored 55 points and rewritten Anthony Davis’ 52 points in 2017, becoming the highest scoring record in the history of the All-Star Game. Mitchell scored three times in the All-Star Game The highest 40 points and 10 assists, and Lillard, who scored the winning three-pointer, also had 26 points.
In the past two seasons of the All-Star Game, Antetokounmpo and Stephen Curry won the All-Star Game MVP respectively. At the same time, the two also helped the team break into the championship, won the championship, and accepted the FMVP by themselves. Tatum’s Celtics last season After failing in the championship game, he made a comeback this season and currently ranks at the top of the league. He is expected to be the favorite for the championship. Whether Tatum can continue the practice of being the MVP winner of the All-Star Game in the past two years, and follow the same pattern to challenge the FMVP, is worthy of attention following this All-Star Game. topic.
After the All-Star Game ended, the 2023 All-Star Weekend activities have also come to an end. The NBA will have a three-day truce. Taiwan time will have nine regular games this Friday. Race sort to do the final sprint.
Further reading:
The starting list for the NBA All-Star Game was released. James was selected 19 times to tie Jabba’s record. Williamson, Tatum and Mitchell won the first start
Joel Embiid, Paul George lead 2023 All-Star Game bench list released
Daoist Yimei, MVP of the All-Star Game, set a new record with 52 points
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[Editor Zhang Zhengbang]