On February 21, Beijing time, the NBA All-Star Game officially began, and James played against Durant. This contest Durant did not have a chance, but also let the game lose some of the highlights, and in this game the two teams are very hot, the first three quarters of the fierce showdown, the point difference has not been pulled, with James back mid-range hit, to help James beat Durant 163-160. Curry hit 16 three-pointers in this game and scored 50 points without suspense to be elected All-Star MVP.
Before the game, the James team also suffered consecutive blows, Mitchell was ill and could not play, Paul fractured his right hand, only came up and played for 2 minutes, two less in an instant. After the game began, the two teams began to fight each other, hitting consecutive three-pointers from the outside, and constantly staging wonderful dunks, so that yesterday's dunk contest was mentioned again. Among them, Curry's outside touch is hot, and he is expected to win the first All-Star MVP; Durant's Embiid also scores consecutive points, as long as they win, he is elected.
After the first three quarters of the game, the gap between the two teams is very small, Durant leads by 1 point, plus 24 points, that is 163 points, which team reaches this score first, it will win. Durant's outside feel good in the first three quarters, but in the last quarter, it gave James the opportunity to successfully reverse the score, and gradually pulled away, taking the lead in getting 161 points, as long as he got 2 more points to win. At this time, Durant's LaVine hit a three-point shot from the outside and the score reached 160 points, and it only takes one three-pointer to win.
James side at the beginning Of Curry came a super far three points, unfortunately failed to hit, the final opportunity to kill was also handed over to James, back to single LaVine, after a confrontation, choose to turn over and jump shot, this Embiid also came up to quote, unfortunately a step late, James has shot, the ball feels a little off in the air, but still fell into the net, James sent a killer ball, helped the team to win, and also gave Curry a wonderful assist.
With the James victory, Curry was elected All-Star MVP without suspense. Curry shot 16 of 27 three-pointers in the whole game, bombed 50 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, this time also brushed up the All-Star record, the highest halftime three-point record - 8 goals, the highest three-point shot in a single quarter - 6 goals, the first in the history of three-point shooting, and the record for three-point shooting in a single game.
In addition, Curry will donate $108,000 to the game, and before the game, he said that he would donate $1,000 for every point he scored, $3,000 for every three points scored, and $10,000 for the Cleveland Railroad School District if he could get AMFP.