LeBron James scored the All-Star victory basket, but Stephen Kerry stole the show

King James led the LeBron team to a 160: 163 victory in front of an enthusiastic Cleveland crowd, but Kerry won the MVP title with a crazy evening of 16 threes and 50 points

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21/02/2022

Monday, 21 February 2022, 07:00 Updated: 07:12

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Denver Nuggets players celebrate in the locker room a victory over the Warriors after a victory basket by Monte Morris (the Nuggets' Twitter account)

Stephen Kerry scored 50 points and set an all-time all-time record with 16 3-pointers, leading the LeBron Team to a 160-116 victory over the Durant Team in the traditional NBA All-Star Game tonight (Sunday through Monday) in Cleveland.

Kerry, who played for LeBron's team, broke the three-point record set by Paul George in 2016, but failed to break the All-Star points record held by Anthony Davis (52 points from 2017) - but his impressive display tonight is still Awarded him the MVP Award of the Game.

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LeBron celebrates with crowd (Photo: Reuters)

Stephen Kerry wins All-Star Game MVP (Photo: Reuters)

LeBron James celebrates victory with Yannis Antocompo in All-Star Game (Photo: Reuters)

On the other side, Joel Ambide stood out with 36 points and 10 rebounds for Durant, in a game that was close throughout.

The goal was to reach 163 points, LeBron's team led 160: 161 and went on the final attack, where as expected LeBron took the ball, scored in a beautiful fade-away over the guard, and buried the basket of victory in front of the supportive and loving crowd in Cleveland Ohio, where he was born and raised. And even developed as a basketball player and won an unforgettable championship 6 years ago.

LeBron finished with 24 points in his 18th All-Star - just one far from the record held by Krim Abdul Jabbar.

Yannis Antocompo finished with 30 points and 12 rebounds for LeBron, and Devin Booker added 20 for Durant.

Stephen Kerry finished the game with 16 of 27 from the three, and a total of 17 of 30 from the field.

Chris Paul played 2:19 minutes, despite the finger fracture, which is expected to disable him for 8-6 weeks.

The sick Donovan Mitchell missed the game.

A fun evening.

Silver and Bill Marie (Photo: Reuters)

Amazing minutes.

Kerry (Photo: Reuters)

The third quarter ended with a 138: 139 result in favor of the Durant team.

According to the format - add 24 to the number of points of the leading team, and this is the goal the teams need to reach, in a method that has been used for three years.

At the half-time break a number of players included in the list of the top 7 were honored and recognized in the hall, and as soon as the half opened the fiery Steph stepped into the rhythm - sniping 5 threes in 128 seconds of magic, including two from a great distance, almost halfway.

In the end, as mentioned, LeBron signed the result, but Commissioner Adam Silver awarded the Kobe Bryant Cup to the game’s standout, Kerry from Golden State.

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