Posted Jan 31 2012 1:32PM - Updated Feb 27 2012 1:50AM ORLANDO - It began innocuously enough, Miami's LeBron James subbing back in with seven minutes left in what had been a typical NBA All-Star Game (electric in spurts, snoozy for stretches). The East team trailed by 15, much as it had by double digits all night, so it wasn't clear if Chicago coach Tom Thibodeau really was sending James in with legitimate comeback aspirations or maybe to run up mileage on the best player on the Bulls' biggest rival.
Your browser does not support iframes. Eighty-five seconds later, though, the East had closed to within 138-130. Then to six with, hey, more than four minutes left.
Three with three. Then one with a whole 1:44 to go, courtesy of Deron Williams' steal and layup on an East inbounds that made it 148-147. Game freaking on. At that point, the unicorn of All-Star Games showed itself at Amway Center Sunday night: A robust, Madison Square Garden-worthy chant of 'Dee-FENSE!
If it hadn't felt so right at that moment, it would have been cute, a crowd long on corporate sponsors and celebrities getting so lusty, so late. But real bsketball and serious intensity broke out in the nick of time, sending the West's 152-149 victory into the books with a deserving MVP (Kevin Durant), a frustrated James and the sense that this really had been a sports competition rather than a showy, channel-flipper's alternative to the Oscars. 'With all these great players on the floor, you never know what will happen,' said Durant, who scored 34 of his 36 points in the first three quarters, helping the West build a fat lead that it never, not quite, lost. 'Guys making big shots, and they cut it down to one. We were up 18 21 actually. That's the type of All-Star Game you want to see.
I'm glad I won. I'm glad I got MVP.'
By the final minutes, that honor was going to be either/or: Either Durant if the West held on to win, or James if his spark off the bench late managed to get the East all the way back. Of course, with the drama squeezed into the final minutes of the fourth quarter - let's repeat, the fourth quarter - the scrutiny on James' performance and decisions at the end was extreme. The Heat star did have the ball in his hands three times near the very end with a chance to win or tie - and three times he passed it. The first went to Williams, the East within 151-149, but his 3-pointer from the wing clanged off with 8.9 seconds left.
Williams got the rebound back to James, who tried to pass crosscourt right to left - and had it plucked by the West's Blake Griffin. Kobe Bryant - who scored 27 points to push his career All-Star total (271) past Michael Jordan (262) for No.
1 on the all-time list - barked at James after that gaffe. The Miami star admitted he hesitated on the pass just an instant, resulting in the turnover. Your browser does not support iframes. Griffin was fouled with 1.1 seconds left and missed the first of two free throws.
That left the East enough time to huddle and set up one last shot - and James was the guy inbounding to Dwyane Wade in the left corner. Wade caught, fired - and missed - in one motion to let the West off the hook. 'Being a competitor, no matter All-Star Game or not, you don't want to get blown out,' said James, who matched Durant's 36 points. 'I just wanted to try to pick it up and see if we could make a run at it, and we did.' Thibodeau let the clock run on the rebound of Williams' miss, saying he felt confidence in James - a free agent he tried hard to land in July 2010. 'He made a lot of big plays. He made big shots, great reads,' Thibodeau said.
'You have a scramble situation and an open floor, and you have a very dynamic scorer and a guy with great vision and good decision-making. You can call a timeout and it allows the defense to get set, or you can trust his ability to make a play.' Durant had 21 points by halftime as the West set an All-Star record with its 88 first-half points. The teams' 157 to that point also was a record, and the 301 combined points by the end fell two shy of the mark set (in overtime) in 1987. The East's 14 field goals from beyond the arc was another record.
Wade finished with a triple-double (24 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists), becoming the third player to post one in an All-Star Game - and the third to not win the MVP for his effort (like Michael Jordan in 1997 and James last year). Wade also bumped up the intensity Sunday early in the third quarter with a hard foul on Bryant, bloodying the Lakers star's nose. Considering how quiet the arena had gotten by that point, the move - harder by half than All-Star standards - set up the scrambling and urgency that was a quarter away.
Wade admitted that he fouled Bryant thinking about two less-physical fouls Bryant had put on him. 'I obviously didn't try to draw no blood,' he said.
'I'm glad everything was cool and we got back to being competitive and having fun.' Some more than others. Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard scored only five points until late in the third quarter and ended with nine points, 10 rebounds, one block and a head-scratching four 3-pointers, all misses. (He is 1-for-33 in his career, plus 1-for-10 now in All-Star Games; even allowing for end-of-quarter heaves, that's not good.) Howard's season has been largely joyless as the trade rumors and speculation about his looming free agency have weighed on him and the Orlando team.
Big men are dependent on getting fed the ball, so All-Star games can be tricky, but Howard's shot at the MVP - a mini-tradition in these things - was gone early and the big event from him was, well, uneventful. 'The weekend for me was a lot of work, but I did have a lot of fun,' Howard said. It just didn't show up in the boxscore, then. Fortunately six or seven minutes of serious star-powered play did. Nothing was going to stop Kobe Bryant from a victory in this All-Star game, not on his home floor.
Shining brightest again among the stars, Bryant scored 37 points and tied a record with his fourth MVP award in the Western Conference's victory over the East in the 2011 NBA All-Star Game. Everything's not just bigger in Texas - it's gigantic, colossal, and don't forget - humongous. The NBA All-Star Game came to the Lone Star State and a basketball nation broke out as a world-record crowd of 108,713 filled up the futuristic edifice that is Cowboys Stadium to see the East squeeze out a 141-139 win over the West. Teammates for three championships with the Lakers at the beginning of the decade, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal teamed up once more to lead the Western Conference over the East 146-119. Bryant led all scorers with 27 points while Shaq added 17. LeBron James earned MVP honors and nearly missed a triple-double (27 points, eight rebounds, nine assists) as the Eastern Conference downed the West 134-128.
Kobe Bryant lit up the Las Vegas strip with 31 points to earn the MVP as the West romped past the East 153-132 at the first-ever All-Star game held outside an NBA city. NBA All-Star Game Results Click on the All-Star game results below for complete All-Star rosters, coaches, game recaps and weekend event winners for every year. Year Result MVP Location 2012 Kevin Durant Orlando, Fla. 2011 Kobe Bryant Los Angeles, Calif. 2010 Dwyane Wade Arlington, Texas 2009 Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal Phoenix, Ariz.
Bonanza a36 manual. 2008 LeBron James New Orleans, La. 2007 Kobe Bryant Las Vegas, Nev.
2006 LeBron James Houston, Texas 2005 Allen Iverson Denver, Colo. 2004 Shaquille O'Neal Los Angeles, Calif. 2003 Kevin Garnett Atlanta, Ga. 2002 Kobe Bryant Philadelphia, Pa. 2001 Allen Iverson Washington, D.C. 2000 Tim Duncan, Shaquille O'Neal Oakland, Calif. 1998 Michael Jordan New York, N.Y.
1997 Glen Rice Cleveland, Ohio 1996 Michael Jordan San Antonio, Texas 1995 Mitch Richmond Phoenix, Ariz. 1994 Scottie Pippen Minneapolis, Minn. 1993 Karl Malone, John Stockton Salt Lake City, Utah 1992 Magic Johnson Orlando, Fla. 1991 Charles Barkley Charlotte, N.C. 1990 Magic Johnson Miami, Fla.
1989 Karl Malone Houston, Texas 1988 Michael Jordan Chicago, Ill. 1987 Tom Chambers Seattle, Wash. 1986 Isiah Thomas Dallas, Texas 1985 Ralph Sampson Indianapolis, Ind.
1984 Isiah Thomas Denver, Colo. 1983 Julius Erving Inglewood, Calif. 1982 Larry Bird East Rutherford, N.J. 1981 Tiny Archibald Richfield, Ohio 1980 George Gervin Landover, Md. 1979 David Thompson Detroit, Mich. 1978 Randy Smith Atlanta, Ga. 1977 Julius Erving Milwaukee, Wisc.
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1976 Dave Bing Philadelphia, Pa. 1975 Walt Frazier Phoenix, Ariz. 1974 Bob Lanier San Antonio, Texas 1973 Dave Cowens Chicago, Ill. 1972 Jerry West Inglewood, Calif.
1971 Lenny Wilkens San Diego, Calif. 1970 Willis Reed Philadelphia, Pa. 1969 Oscar Robertson Baltimore, Md. 1968 Hal Greer New York, N.Y. 1967 Rick Barry San Francisco, Calif.
1966 Adrian Smith Cincinnati, Ohio 1965 Jerry Lucas St. 1964 Oscar Robertson Boston, Mass.
1963 Bill Russell Los Angeles, Calif. 1962 Bob Pettit St.
1961 Oscar Robertson Syracuse, N.Y. 1960 Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia, Pa. 1959 Elgin Baylor, Bob Pettit Detroit, Mich. 1958 Bob Pettit St.
1957 Bob Cousy Boston, Mass. 1956 Bob Pettit Rochester, N.Y.
1955 Bill Sharman New York, N.Y. 1954 Bob Cousy New York, N.Y. 1953 George Mikan Ft. 1952 Paul Arizin Boston, Mass. 1951 Ed Macauley Boston, Mass.
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. The National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annual. The award was established in when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game. The league also re-honored players from the previous two All-Star Games. And were selected as the and MVP winners respectively. The voting is conducted by a panel of media members, who cast their vote after the conclusion of the game. The player(s) with the most votes or ties for the most votes wins the award.
No All-Star Game MVP was named in 1999 since the game was canceled due to the league's. As of 2017, the most recent recipient is forward. And are the only two players to win the All-Star Game MVP four times., and have each won the award three times, while, and have all won the award twice. James' first All-Star MVP in 2006 made him the youngest to have ever won the award at the age of 21 years, 1 month., winner of the MVP, is the second-youngest at 21 years, 10 months.
They're notable as being the two youngest to win the award, both as. Four of the games had joint winners— and Pettit in, and Malone in, O'Neal and in, and O'Neal and Bryant in.
O'Neal became the first player in All-Star history to share two MVP awards as well as the first player to win the award with multiple teams. The have had eleven winners while the have had eight. Duncan of the and Irving of Australia are the only winners not born in the United States. Both Duncan and Irving are American citizens, but are considered 'international' players by the NBA because they were not born in one of the or Washington, D.C.
No player trained entirely outside the U.S. Has won the award; Irving lived in the U.S.
Since age two, and Duncan played U.S. (1958, 1959) and (2015, 2016) are the only players to win consecutive awards. Pettit (1956), (1957), (1960), (1963), (1964), (1970), (1973), Michael Jordan (1988, 1996, 1998), Magic Johnson (1990), Shaquille O'Neal (2000), and (2001) all won the All-Star Game MVP and the in the same season; Jordan is the only player to do this multiple times. 14 players have won the award playing for the team that hosted the All-Star Game: Macauley (1951), Cousy (1957), Pettit (1958, 1962), Chamberlain (1960), (1966), Rick Barry (1967), (1972), (1987), Jordan (1988), Karl Malone (1993), (1993), O'Neal (2004, 2009), Bryant (2011) and Davis (2017); Pettit and O'Neal did this multiple times. Has the distinction of playing in the most All-Star Games (18) without winning the All-Star Game MVP, while Adrian Smith won the MVP in his only All-Star Game. ^ Kyrie Irving was born in Australia to American parents who returned to the U.S.
When he was two years old. He has dual U.S. And Australian citizenship, but has represented the internationally. ^ Denotes All-Star Games in which joint winners were named. Because Tim Duncan is a United States citizen by birth, as are all natives of the U.S. Virgin Islands, he was able to play for the U.S.
James, at 21 years and 51 days old, is the youngest All-Star Game MVP in NBA history. O'Neal, at 36 years and 346 days old, is the oldest All-Star Game MVP in NBA history. References General. Steve Popper (February 5, 1998). The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2008. Howard-Cooper, Scott (February 12, 1990).
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