LeBron and Lillard stand out for All-Star infamy in Indiana

Fans demanded a change to the All-Star Game format, the icing on the All-Star Game cake that the NBA celebrates every year. Since a long time ago. Changed here and there, there was no sin of immobility. We moved away from the classic format to a format where captains choose their own teammates. We moved from scoring a regular basketball game to counting quarter scores and an objective score based on them. This year, 2024, we’ve gone back to basics to shake the shaker one more time, and the result, whether you’re a purist or a modern one, is nothing short of a disaster.

In a favorable place(“There are only basketball in 49 states, and this is Indiana.”) Adam Silver and other ideologues wanted to focus the event on the abilities of the players. If they want, they can. Basketball and the format of life. The Inter-Conference Duel Returns, East vs. West, which has been parked for the past five years. They wanted the old scent to try to penetrate deep inside the participants, which made them dedicate themselves to the sport, and thus convince them that it was Show designed to be fun for everyone, not just them. For example, when you were laughing with a friend at school in the middle of class and the teacher blurted out: “Tell us this joke out loud so we can all laugh.”.

The mood of the actors in this performance was bad to the worst. Genre, theater of the absurd. The NBA sent a veiled message to players about the format change. I had to wake up. The boys responded by allowing one of the two to score 211 points together. A shame. The heat rises just by looking at the scoreboard. Embarrassment. The All-Star Game has fallen by the wayside once again and we will have to look for some incentive other than just sports to get it back on the path of joy and fun that it was in the past.

The result of the party was 211-186. Damian Lillard won MVP after scoring 39 points, and one of the critics was that another one of those in contention was local Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton.

This points record can be distinguished from the event. What is not worth celebrating. Silver, who sighed like a renegade, congratulating Antetokounmpo and the guys from the East on such a score, will think the same.. The previous score was 196 in the 2016 All-Star Game in Toronto. Here they not only stayed in the 200 round, which Haliburton crossed with a three to the cheers of Gainbridge Fieldhouse, but they moved it up another 11. The total of 397 points is, of course, another collective record. At the individual level, the Timberwolves’ Towns contributed the most with 50.

LeBron James entered the game as captain and became the player with the most All-Star Game appearances, surpassing the now 19-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The league had been operating under his watch for the past twenty years, and his enviable physique also allowed him to always be a part of the event.

The King, who now plays for the Lakers, really got the crowd excited as he only played 14 minutes. His classic LeBronasso, that one-handed dunk that sends his right arm wide open on a counterattack and nothing else. There were eight points.

This February 19th seemed to be aimed at something different, something that was wanted, something competitive. But it lasted as long as two ice fish in Joaquin Sabina’s whiskey. We started to defend minimally, a couple of fouls, a couple of hits, and the score didn’t work out. The effect wore off before the break.

The desires in the East, where players were not so accustomed to this level of skill, were diametrically opposed to those in the West. The team led by “Doc” (on the other hand, the main player Chris Finch was accompanied as an assistant by the Argentinean Pablo Prigioni) was taken on with a minimal start and also achieved success, a winning combination. Haliburton had 40 magical seconds of triples, three from three and each time from further distance, to mark the finish line for his team. The rest signed up, Lillard was in the lead, and a cascade from the perimeter undermined not only the resistance, but also the desire to fight for the one on the team dressed in red. You want to find Doncic or Jokic, who clearly don’t like this matchup. The wins can be found from the Clippers duo of Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, who only saw the field for ten minutes each. You want to find Shay and Carlito, the two who attacked in the second half when they saw that the performance was not good. The blue side is freer: Trey, throwing up pipes; Brown polishes his right hand; Barnes, from smallest to largest. The Eastern Conference scored 51 points in the second and fourth quarters, its lowest scores. 42 threes out of 97 attempts were decisive. Lillard finished the game with a shot from midfield to tie for MVP, and who knows how, we’ll see the next thing in San Francisco in 2026. As the Commissioner said, for all intents and purposes: “Well… Congratulations…”.

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