Chapter 135: All-Star MVP?
There are 5 minutes and 30 seconds left before the end of the game, and the Western All-Stars are Paul, Tyreck, Kobe, Durant, and Griffin, and the Eastern All-Stars are Rose, Wade, James, Anthony, and Howard, and the Western All-Stars maintain a 10-point lead at 140-130.
Tyrek assists Kobe Bryant to complete a layup!
James gives Anthony, Anthony steps back and shoots!
Paul gave Griffin again, and it was another empty buckle!
Wade steals, a dragon splits and dunks!
Howard hits Griffin with his back in the low post and hits a hook shot!
James shoots out of the three-point line and misses! Wade grabbed the rebound in the front court, jumped up again and was fouled, and played 2+1!
Durant pulled out his shot outside the three-point line in the face of James' pounce and missed! Howard won the rebound and gave Rose a quick counterattack!
The two sides come and go, the offensive momentum is higher and higher, the west wants to maintain the advantage, the east wants to catch up with the score, everyone is full of energy and starts to play for the victory.
However, at this last moment, the performance of the Eastern All-Stars was better, they gradually narrowed the gap in the score, James, Wade, Anthony, the three best superstars of the 03rd class were full of firepower, all kinds of strong attacks, the difference between the two teams was narrowed to only 3 points, at this time there were less than 3 minutes before the end of the game, and the suspense of the game became confusing again!
Going into a timeout, both head coaches Scott. Brooks & Eric. Spoelstra began to play the final three minutes of tactical set-up.
Back on the court, both sides made personnel changes, in the West, Paul, who had an average desire to attack, was replaced by Westbrook, who was desperate to play, and in the East, DeLong, who was hot in this game, replaced Rose, who performed well.
The energetic Westbrook scored a breakthrough tomahawk dunk as soon as he came on the court, raising his score in the game to 23 points.
"Hey, Tyrek, you and I should have no hope of winning the MVP in this game, you see Kevin has scored 33 points, if we win this game, the MVP will be Kevin's nine times out of ten...... Still, I can beat you in terms of scoring! Westbrook gestured confidently at Terrick, gesturing his muscles.
"Russell, we didn't have a few points ahead, it's not certain if we can win, what if you lose the game and you score more than me, besides, I still have 3 points more than you......"
"It's just three points, I'll just have a confident three points in the next round, and win the game? With me, I won't let victory get out of the way! "Westbrook is always a source of confidence.
However, Westbrook's self-confidence obviously has nothing to do with the trend of the game, although Westbrook is enthusiastic and confident, but the Eastern All-Stars have once again narrowed the point gap, and so far in this game, Delon has scored 18 points on the bench so far, and Kobe's pass was quickly cut off by his eye, and then he hit a single fast-break layup!
After that, Westbrook missed the mid-range dry pull, Anthony protected the rebound, gave it to Delon, and Delon advanced to the front court and completed the empty connection with James! The Eastern All-Stars scored 4 points in a row, narrowing the gap between the two sides to just 1 point!
At this time, there is still one minute before the end of the game, and the Eastern All-Stars ushered in the opportunity to overtake the score, and the atmosphere of the whole court has also come to the most tense moment!
In the final moments, Durant and Tyreck, the best All-Star performers in the West, became the winners and losers of the game.
Tyrek first played a fast break, received Griffin's backcourt pass and advanced quickly with lightning speed, and the European stepped away from Anthony and scored a backhand layup!
Then the Eastern All-Stars made a fatal mistake, Wade did not hold it steady when he received James' pass in the frontcourt, the ball went out of bounds, and the Western All-Stars got the ball!
After Terrick received the sideline serve, he directly gave Durant on the wing, Durant shot extremely resolutely, and he didn't give the Eastern All-Stars any chance to defend when he took the ball!
Big heart! Hollow into the net!
At this time, there were only 18.3 seconds left before the end of the game, and the Eastern All-Stars were still 6 points behind, basically hopeless, with Wade's three-point deviation, Howard fought for the frontcourt rebound, and then passed out, and was directly cut off by Griffin!
The Eastern Conference All-Stars completely lost their chance, and the game was over! The Western Conference All-Stars won 151-144!
Although the game has a win or loss, but after all, it is only an exhibition game, after the game players on the field to greet each other, the fans also gave the warmest applause for this wonderful East-West matchup, at this time everyone is also waiting for the All-Star MVP to be announced, to draw a perfect end to the Orlando All-Star Game.
The Western All-Stars won, which made James, who has always maintained a very high shooting percentage in this game, and Wade, who played a triple-double, destined to miss the All-Star MVP, and the best players in the Western All-Stars are Durant and Tyrek.
In addition to Tyreek's attack and one assist and Durant's desperate three-pointer in the final moments to decide the outcome of the game, Durant played 37 minutes in the game and contributed a game-high 36 points tied with James, while Tyrek played a comprehensive and efficient performance, played 29 minutes off the bench, almost played a triple-double, scored 28 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, and gave wonderful individual highlights at the beginning and end of the fourth quarter.
"Yes, Tyreco, I'll admit you played a little better than I did......" Westbrook hugged Tyrek after the match.
In the end, the MVP of this game was won by Durant, who got the highest score in the game, and Tyrek also expected it, although he also had some expectations for this award, but in the case that his other statistics were not particularly shocking, it was normal for the award to belong to the winner with the highest score.
Durant after the game from David. When Stern received the All-Star MVP trophy in his hand, Durant made a point of mentioning Tyrek at the end of his acceptance speech.
"Although I won the All-Star MVP today, Tyreco's performance is not below me, the last time we played against Tyrek in the regular season, although we won, but the scene of him scoring 61 points on our head is still unforgettable, I look forward to playing with you next time!"
The camera was given to Tyrek, who applauded Durant with a smile on his face, and the audience also gave applause to Tyrek for his outstanding performance. With Durant holding high the All-Star MVP trophy, Tyreco's first All-Star journey has also come to an end......