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West holds off furious East rally to win NBA All
''With all these great players on the floor,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you never know what will happen,'' Durant said. ''Guys making big shots,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and they cut it down to one. We were up 18.''
Just enough, it turned out, to hold off LeBron James and the East in the NBA All-Star game.
A bloodied Bryant scored 27 points, moving past Michael Jordan as the career scoring leader in the game,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Durant had 36 in an MVP performance, and the Western Conference won 152-149 on Sunday night.
James and the East cut a 21-point deficit to one in the closing seconds,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but weren't able to move in front. James had 36 points and fellow Heat star Dwyane Wade finished with a triple-double.
''It was fun,'' Durant said. ''That's the type of All-Star game you want to see.''
Blake Griffin scored 22 points for the West, which rang up 88 points in the first half, setting an All-Star record. But he won the game with his defense, picking off James' pass when the East had a chance to tie in the final seconds.
''When I tried to throw it late, that's what usually happens and it results in a turnover,'' James said. ''Definitely wish I could have that one back.''
Griffin then hit one free throw with 1.1 seconds left, and Wade was off on a 3-point attempt from the corner. He finished with 24 points,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 10 rebounds and 10 assists,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], joining Jordan and James as the only players with All-Star game triple-doubles.
He broke Jordan's record of 262 points on a dunk with 4:57 left in the third quarter and now has 271 for his career,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. He passed Oscar Robertson (246 points) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (251) earlier in the game,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
''That record he got tonight, with KD in the league,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I don't know how long it's going to last,'' Wade said.
It nearly wasn't enough, as the East's comeback had the crowd filled with entertainers and athletes chanting for defense never a part of the All-Star game vocabulary in the final seconds.
James hit two long 3-pointers in the final period, and the East had a chance when Bryant, with the crowd loudly booing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], missed a free throw with 18 seconds left and the West up 151-149.
But New Jersey's Deron Williams was short on a 3-pointer, and after the East came up with it, James fired a pass into a crowd that Griffin intercepted.
On a colorful night in Orlando, from pregame performer Nicki Minaj's pink and green hair to the neon sneakers many of the stars wore, Dwight Howard had nine points and 10 rebounds as the game's host.
The NBA's first All-Star game in Orlando in 20 years wasn't close after 2 1/2 quarters. But players always say it gets competitive in the final five minutes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and James was again up for the challenge.
He hiked his scoring average to 25.9 points over his eight All-Star games, and someday he'll probably take the record Bryant set Sunday.
But he couldn't quite catch Kobe in the game.
''Being a competitor, no matter All-Star game or not, you don't want to get blown out,'' James said. ''Of course not, when you're going against your peers and you're going against great players and you're playing with great players. I just wanted to try to pick it up and see if we could make a run at it, and we did.''
With the 2-year-old Amway Center considered by many the finest arena in the league, the NBA brought its midseason showcase back to Orlando for the first time since the memorable 1992 game, when Magic Johnson was MVP three months after retiring from the league because of the HIV virus.
This one was once in jeopardy of being lost when the lockout lasted into late November. Without a settlement then,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], All-Star weekend may have been wiped out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as it was in 1999 following a work stoppage.
Howard and Derrick Rose ditched their orange sneakers in the second half James kept his and the East quickly got back into it, trimming 12 points off its deficit in less than 6 minutes. They even started to defend Wade whacked Bryant so hard on a drive that the Lakers star needed a break between free throws to wipe blood from his nose before sinking it to tie Jordan.
Williams scored 20 points for the East. Carmelo Anthony had 19, and Rose finished with 14.
Kevin Love, who won the 3-point contest on Saturday, scored 17 points for the West, which has won two in a row. Chris Paul had eight points and 12 assists.
NOTES: With Bryant,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bynum,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Griffin and Paul, four West starters were from Los Angeles. Bynum played only 5 1/2 minutes after a having a procedure on his knee Friday. . Johnson came onto the court for a standing ovation following the first quarter after highlights of his 1992 performance were shown. He was part of another 20-year anniversary acknowledgement in the third quarter, joined by Olympic Dream Team teammates Chris Mullin, Clyde Drexler, Scottie Pippen and David Robinson.相关的主题文章:
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