All-Star Weekend: A Summary

     NBA All-Star weekend ended yesterday and might I say, this might be one of the worst All-Star weekends ever. It started on Friday with the celebrity All-Star game. In all honesty, more defense was played in the celebrity game then the actual All-Star game. The East won that game by a score of 88-59. After the celebrity All-Star game, came the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge. This game was very entertaining to watch. In the end the World beat the United States by a score of 150-141, led by Jamal Murray's 36 points.
   On Saturday, the skills challenge was won by New York Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis defeating Gordon Hayward in the Championship round. Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordan won the Three-Point contest in a sudden death round against Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the anticipated Dunk Contest, not many dunks were converted. In fact two players did not even make a dunk in their three tries. This is a huge rarity in the fact that the competing players are supposed to be the best dunkers in the association.  In the end Glenn Robinson III won the contest dunking over three people in his final contest winning dunk.
    Sunday was the big day the NBA All-Star game. Where the best players from both conferences play to find out who is the better of the two. Instead, we got 48 minutes of pick up basketball. Absolutely no defense was played throughout the game. There were times where only 2 players went back on defense after a turnover. No one would contest anybodies shot. In fact, if any one of the players drove to the baseline, It was a free two points because no one would be down there to defend it. However we did get to see history yesterday. All-Star MVP Anthony Davis of the host city New Orleans Pelicans dropped 52 points in the game breaking Wilt Chamberlain's previous record of 41. Along with 10 rebounds, Davis helped lead the West past the East with the final score being 192-182.