On March 26, Beijing time, the 2022-23 CBA All-Star Game, the North All-Star narrowly defeated the South All-Star 117-113 in overtime. Abdul Shalamu won MVP with 20 points.
Competition focus
Xu Jie won the Skills Challenge: This year's All-Star, Xu Jie won the championship after defeating Allen Guo and Zhang Ning in the final of the Skills Challenge.
Wang Ruize wins the three-point contest: In the final of this year's All-Star Three-Point Contest, Zhou Qimo shot 18 points, Wang Ruize threw 20 points, and defending champion Yuan Shuai threw 16 points. In this way, Wang Ruize won the three-point competition.
Yang Hao beat Zhang Zhenlin and Zeng Fanbo to win the dunk king: In the final of this All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, wild card player Yang Hao beat Zhang Zhenlin and Zeng Fanbo to win the Slam Dunk Contest with a total score of 100 points.
Jordjevic watched the game live: This year's CBA All-Star and Chinese men's basketball coach Jordjevic personally watched the game. In addition, the "God of War" Liu Yudong, Zhang Changning, Zheng Haixia, Li Yueru and others also attended the scene to watch the game.
Match replay
At the beginning of the first quarter, Allen Guo and Zhao Jiwei successfully connected in succession to lead the North Zone All-Stars to a wave of 7-3, Hu Mingxuan immediately stepped up and continued to score points from the South Zone All-Stars to give the opponent a counterattack, Zhang Zhenlin received Guo Allen Miaochuan with both hands dunk, Chen Linjian immediately hit a back-up jumper, and the two sides fought to a 12-12 draw. After that, Yi Jianlian took over the game, first hitting a three-pointer, then holding the ball to score a strong attack, followed by Zhou Peng's long pass and a two-handed dunk to give the Southern All-Star a five-point lead at 21-16. At the end of the first quarter, Wu Qian hit an outside three-pointer, Zhou Peng also hit a jumper, and the Southern All-Star threw another wave of scoring climax. In the first quarter, the Southern All-Star led by 10 points at 28-18.
Entering the second quarter, the North All-Star launched a counterattack in the opening stage, Zeng Fanbo scored consecutive points from the outside shot, Guo Allen broke through the layup with the ball in succession, and Zhang Zhenlin dunked again, and the North District All-Star forced the trailing point gap to 1 point. In the following period, the two sides staged a confrontation battle, Yi Jianlian dunk, Zhang Zhenlin drizzled onion dunk, Hu Mingxuan countered the dunk, Guo Allen pulled a three-point shot and took turns, when Tao Hanlin countered the dunk and scored, the North All-Star 47-45 rally by 2 points. At the end of the second quarter, the two sides alternately scored points by breaking through layups and attacking with the ball inside. At halftime, the North All-Star led by two points at 54-52.
Yibian fought again, Wang Zhelin hit the inside shooting in the opening stage, but the North All-Star was also scored by Abdul Shalamu and Zeng Fanbo. In the following period, the two sides fought again, Zhang Zhenlin and Chen Linjian completed the dunk during this period, and when Wang Zhelin singled out Guo Allen with the ball, the two sides fought to a 69-69 draw. At the end of the quarter, Wang Zhelin led his team to the lead by scoring successive points from the inside, but the North All-Star quickly returned to close the score. After the third quarter, the Southern All-Star led by two points 80-78.
In the final quarter, Zhang Zhenlin, Zeng Fanbo and Abdul Shalamu scored consecutive points from inside and outside in the opening stage to lead the team to 7-2. Gu Quan hit three points into the southern all-star to stop the bleeding. Subsequently, Abdul Shalamu and Zeng Fanbo led the team to a new round of scoring with three points from the outside of the city, but Zhao Rui immediately led the Southern All-Star to tie the score, 97-97. In the closing period, Zhao Rui hit another 3-pointer, and Wang Zhelin also hit the attack with the ball, but the North All-Star responded with Zhao Jiwei, and the two sides were 104-104, with 48 seconds left in the game. At the second count, Wang Zhelin hit a jumper, and Allen Guo made 2 free throws to tie 106-106. In the final 7.3 seconds, Allen Guo missed an empty three-pointer, and the game went into overtime.
In overtime, Zhao Jiwei made 3 of 3 free throws, Hu Mingxuan returned with 1 3-pointer, Zhang Zhenlin scored on a backward jumper, but Hu Mingxuan hit another 3-pointer. In the final minute, Abdul Shalamu hit an outside 3-pointer, and Zhao Rui hit 1 of 2 free throws, but Zhang Zhenlin immediately hit a key 3-pointer. In the end, the North All-Star won 117-113.
North All-Star Starters: Allen Guo, Zhao Jiwei, Zeng Fanbo, Abdul Shalamu, Zhang Zhenlin;
Substitutes: Jiang Weize, Lin Tingqian, Tao Hanlin, Zhang Ning, Han Shuo, Yuan Shuai, Zhang Fan;
Southern All-Star Starters: Zhao Rui, Hu Mingxuan, Wang Zhelin, Hu Jinqiu, Yi Jianlian;
Substitutes: Sun Minghui, Wu Qian, Zhou Peng, Chen Linjian, Chen Yingjun, Gu Quan, Wu Guanxi;