After two days of brief warm-ups, after a disappointing dunk game, fans finally ushered in the NBA full game, with James playing against Durant.
James started as Curry, Alphabet Brother, DeRozan, Jokic and James, and substituted doncic, Garland, Mitchell, Paul, VanVleet, Butler and Allen (replacing Harden).
Durant started as: Morant, Trae Young, Wiggins, Tatum (in place of Durant) and Embiid, three goals on the bench (selected for the call), Booker, LaVine, Murray (in place of Green), Middleton, Towns and Gobert.
The rules of the game are the same as in the previous year, in the first three quarters of the cumulative total score, the side with the higher score plus 24 points is the target score, and the first party to get the target score is the winner.
Since it is the 75th anniversary of the NBA, this all-Star AMBP competition is quite meaningful, James has not won the AMVP on the James side, and Embiid on the Durant side also covets this award.
In addition, this year's All-Star is played in Cleveland, so Aaron and Garland, who play at home, are also likely to upset and win awards.
As soon as the game began, both teams were slowly getting into shape, plus the All-Star was mostly performative, neither side was seriously defensive, and the point difference would be tight, until the end of the first quarter, James established a two-point lead with Doncic's two three-pointers.
In the second quarter, the defensive intensity of the two teams increased significantly, and there was no shortage of good scenes such as air dunks, and Morant completed a 360-degree turn and dunk technique.
But the protagonist of this quarter is still Curry, who once hit four three-pointers in a row, but even so, Durant still relied on pragmatic playing style, single-quarter three-pointers, with a one-point lead to end the half-time battle.
The James team has obviously not improved the defensive intensity, but the Durant team has begun to have some real knives and real guns to fight.
Fortunately, with Curry's accurate projection, the James team has not been pulled away, and Curry also successfully hit the 13th three-pointer when the third quarter was still halfway, breaking the NBA All-Star record for the number of three-pointers in a single game.
Since then, the intensity of the two teams has increased significantly, especially after Curry and James came off the court, Alphabet Brother and Embiid formed a confrontation and successively entered the interior attack, which made the two teams draw in the third quarter, and Durant entered the final battle with a 1-point lead.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, because the two teams were only 1 point apart, and the Durant team only needed 24 points to win in the final quarter, the two teams finally began to fight with real knives and guns, and The alphabet brother sent the first foul of the game.
James, who took the lead, also had the advantage, with Curry and James's three-pointers, as well as allen and alphabet brother's defense and scramble, James scored 22 points early, just one goal away to win the game.
On the other hand, Durant, only Embiid alone, when james is 2 points away, the team is still 6 points away to win, fortunately, LaVine stood up at the key moment, hit 3 points, so that the team only has 3 points left to win, the situation is not good, James team no longer deliberately help Curry pursue three-point shooting, James directly completed the super difficulty of turning over drift jump shot kill game.
Without a doubt, this is the best script for fans, Curry soared 16 three-pointers, broke the NBA All-Star single-game three-point shooting record, bombed 50 points, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks, and deservedly won the first AMVP of his career.
As the captain, James had 24 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 steals, 24 points and 8 assists to pay tribute to Kobe, 6 rebounds echoed his own number, and 3 steals were the jersey numbers of his friend Paul with injuries.
What's more, James killed the game in a Kobe-like way in the final moments, helping Curry get the first AMFP of his career, which was a perfect ending for everyone.
A few joys and a few sorrows, Durant's Embiid became the strongest background board, in Durant's absence, Embiid became the top card of Durant, and it can be seen that he is very eager to win the AMVP.
Because this season he has every chance to get the MVP, and the team is a big favorite for the championship, it is expected to win all the honors in one season.
In the whole game, Embiid played 30 minutes and 35 seconds, 14 of 20 shots, 5 of 8 from three points, 3 of 3 from the free throws, cut 36 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists, the helpless team lost to James, after James' kill, the scene camera also filmed the disappointed Embiid holding a towel directly on his face.