After a break and enjoying the All-Stars Weekend with a relaxed weekend I leave my impressions about my perception of this great NBA weekend.
It was very marked by the tribute and homage to Kobe Bryant logically after the great loss of this basketball legend to whom we enjoyed so many years watching with all that he contributed in life with his great game, titles and transcendence in the league.
NBA Stars Rising
The rookie game where a team made up of U.S. players and the other team competed for the rest of the world, turned out to be a pleasant game, without any kind of extremely relaxed pressure where USA 151 - World 131 would win and the most valuable would be Miles Bridges with 20 Pts. 5 Ast. 5 Reb. 3 Stl.
NBA All-Stars Saturday Night
This day was focused on 3 competitions the NBA Skills Challenge where Bam Adebayo would win, then would come the 3 point pitching competition where Buddy Hield would win in a close competition in the final against Devin Booker.
To close the classic dunk competition with a showdown between Aaron Gordon and Derrick Jones Jr. For me the fair winner of this competition was Derrick Jones Jr. as he looked more like a puncher in his presentation, others thought Gordon should get the prize but I think justice was done and the judges decided well for Jones Jr. as the champion of the competition.
NBA All Stars Game
On Sunday the big game of the stars would come, with a tribute to Kobe Bryant who we will not forget for his great legacy to basketball, there would be a presentation highlighting the city of Chicago and its outstanding athletes, then presenting Team Giannis and Team Lebron.
The game changed its format this year, every quarter was played with independent scores and when each period started the score started at zero, and the account of who won each quarter was kept and each team donated $100,000 to a school foundation they sponsored, but the previous points of each quarter were added up and in the last period there was a target of 24 points that had to be scored adding up the previous points and the first one that reached 157 won the game.
Lebron's team would win the game 157 - 155 by difference of one possession, but it was extremely competitive because it increased the defense and made the game more exciting at the end, resulting in MVP Kawhi Leonard with 30 Pts. 7 Reb. 4 Ast. 2 Stl. It was a game that marked the before and after of an era in the classic All-Stars Weekend.
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