NBA All-Star Game 2022: The Night of the Basketball Gods, the Night of Carrie, LeBron and Antitokunbo

The 71st All-Star Game in the league’s 75 years was a very special event for world basketball. With the legends of the sport in Cleveland, with LeBron James who knows the apotheosis and the atmosphere screams.go home“, with Giannis Antetokounbo in his sixth All-Star Game, in his eighth All-Star Weekend but in his first as a champion, with the people of the city warming the atmosphere and turning the (many) degrees Celsius below zero into one wonderful celebration.

Mission to Cleveland: Harris Stavrou

And they were all here. In fact, almost everyone has had a few breakdowns. From Magic Johnson and Karim Abdul-Jabbar to Shaquille O’Neal, Dirk Nowitzki, Dennis Rodman, Kevin McHale, Oscar Robertson, Hakim Olaywon and some of the country’s most famous celebrities, actors and athletes to Vanessa Bryant and Spike Lee and Mary Jay Blige and of course Michael Jordan who, despite everyone saying he was out of town, showed up and showed up last. For those who love basketball this was the perfect night…

The game; What game… The game mattered little after what happened at half-time. Following the honoring of the top 76 players in league history. This ceremony was the whole All-Star weekend, this ceremony was something that cannot be described in words only pictures. And there, among the sacred monsters of sport, Giannis Antetokounbo, with a huge, huge smile, tried to realize that at the age of 27 he coexisted with all these legends …

And the fight also had events to offer. In the eighth All-Star game of his career, Giannis Antitokoumbo let those around enjoy the night, played for LeBron James, played for Steph Curry, who with 50 points and SIX shook the net for sixteen points and won his first prize whenever he did had the chance, he attacked the basket and filled his stats (30 points, 15/18 two points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, 1 block in 26:40). And of course he played defense, he committed fouls, he abruptly stopped three against one (!) and generally he took the match seriously, as he always does in these nine years of his professional career.

At the end of the evening we also saw a derby, with the target score of 163 giving the game a wild beauty. John equalized at 155-155, played with determination, having previously broken the defense, he wrote 157-155 with a dance move against Ebid, he gave LeBron James the assist for 159-155, he cleared the rebounds, he cut the Shots from his opponents, he laid the groundwork for the win signed by LeBron James (163-160) with an incredibly difficult long two-pointer in Apotheosis.

THE TWELVE MINUTES: 47-45, 93-94, 138-139, 163-160

LEBRON TEAM (Monty Williams): Antetokunbo 30 (12 rebounds, 6 assists), James 24 (2/11 3-pointers, 6 rebounds, 8 assists), DeRozan 10 (5 assists), Jokic 10 (2 3-pointers, 9 rebounds) , 8 assists) Curry 50 (16/27 three points, 5 rebounds, 5 errors), Butler 2, Allen 10 (9 rebounds), Paul, Doncic 8 (2), Garland 13 (3), VanVlit 6 (2)

TEAM DURATION (Eric Spolstra): Wiggins 10 (2), Tatum 8 (5 assists), Ebid 36 (5 3-pts, 10 rebounds), Young 13 (3/9 3-pts, 10 assists), Morand 6, Middleton 5 ( 1/5 3-pointers), 5 rebounds), Gomber 6 (6 rebounds), Towns 9 (1), Lavin 12 (2), Bouquet 20 (2/9 3-pointers, 5 rebounds), Murray 17 (1 3 -Pointers, 5 rebounds, 5 assists), Bowl 18 (4)

Team LeBron team stats: 40/57 two points, 27/62 three points, 2/2 shots, 48 ​​rebounds, 40 assists, 13 steals, 6 blocks, 16 errors

Team Durant team stats: 45/63 two points, 21/59 three points, 7/7 shots, 50 rebounds, 41 assists, 11 steals, 1 interception, 14 errors

Sportish in Cleveland

Accredited journalist Haris Stavrou is in Cleveland starting Thursday (February 17) to broadcast the pulse of the 71st NBA All-Star Weekend, the gathering of the best basketball players in the world. Sportish is once again at the side of Giannis Antetokounbo, who is entering the eighth festive three days of his career, but in the sixth All-Star Game as a champion. Thanasis and Alexandros Antetokounbo are in Ohio for the Antetokounmpo team to compete in the Skills Challenge.

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