The NBA's new season regular season showdowns are mostly in progress, and the league finally ushered in the highly anticipated All-Star Weekend. In the previous two days of the schedule, the rookie challenge and the All-Star Event were concluded successively. Among them, Barry, led by the new branch, won the All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge, while Cunningham even won the MVP honor. In the individual challenges that followed, Topping won the Dunk Contest, Towns won the Three-Point Contest, and the Cavaliers won the Skill Challenge.
With the arrival of the last game day of All-Star Weekend, the All-Star Game also began, with Durant playing against LeBron. The tournament continues the rules of last season, with the first three quarters of the showdown starting from the 0-0 section (12 minutes in each quarter), but before the final quarter, the timer will be turned off, and the total target score is the points of the first three quarters that lead the team, plus 24 points. The game adds a lot of fun, but also enhances the players' desire to score, and the corresponding ornamentation has also been significantly improved.
And the All-Star Game officially began, LeBron's alphabet brother and Curry can continue to exert their strength, taking the lead in helping the team play a wave of 5-0 small climax. However, even though captain Durant was sidelined due to a knee injury, Durant was able to make a strong counterattack in time. Embiid constantly attacked the inside line, and Trae Young could also play his two-way style, constantly chasing the point difference behind. To be sure, in terms of the shooting feel of the first quarter of the game between the two teams, it is obvious that the players on the LeBron side are hotter.
As the time of the first quarter of the game deepened, Curry even gave Tatum a big hot pot to cover the sky. However, the situation changed after Durant's suspension of challenges. Embiid and Towns continued to take the lead on the inside to help the team reverse the tide, and LeBron's lead was gradually disintegrated. But by the time it reached the second quarter showdown, Durant had not been able to reverse it, allowing LeBron to maintain a 47-45 lead.
It is worth affirming that in the first quarter of the showdown, Embiid sent 11 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists with an efficient shooting rate of 6 shots and 5 shots, but he failed to help the team achieve a reversal of the score, which is a pity. Although Chris Paul fractured his hand, he still played in the All-Star Showdown while still wrapping tape. Minor injuries could not get out of the line of fire, and Paul simply showed it to the fullest. Unfortunately, however, Paul did not contribute any data during the first quarter of the game as a substitute. LeBron was able to achieve a score lead thanks to the help of the team's alphabet brothers and James and others.