On February 19th, Beijing time, the NBA All-Star Game started today, and many fans hoped that this year's All-Star would look better after turning back into the East-West confrontation, but the reality is that this year's All-Star Game has no intensity at all, all of them are shooting and scoring, and even dunks are very few, and the East Army relied on the hot three-point shooting to establish an advantage early, and finally defeated the West 211-186, and Lillard won the All-Star MVP.
It's worth mentioning that this year's All-Star broke a lot of all-time records on the offensive end because of the lack of intensity in this game:
1. The Eastern team scored 104 points in the first half, tying the NBA all-time All-Star half-time single-team scoring record, and in 2016, the Western team scored 104 points in the first half.
2. The total points of the two teams in the first half combined were 193 points, the highest halftime in NBA All-Star history.
3. The East scored 211 points in the whole game, the highest score of a single team in NBA All-Star history, and the first time in All-Star history that a team scored more than 200 points in a single game, and the previous highest score was 197 points in 2016.
4. The two teams combined to score 397 points this year, a new All-Star record, and the previous highest was 374 points (192-182) in 2017.
5, Lillard, who scored 39 points in this game and won the MVP of the All-Star Game, made 11 three-pointers, surpassing Tatum's 10 last year and rising to the second place on the NBA all-time single-game three-point list, second only to Curry's 16.
6. The number of three-point shots made by the Eastern team in the whole game was 97, breaking the 90 of the James team in 2019 and becoming the number of three-point shots made by a single team in the All-Star.
7. The East hit 42 three-pointers in this game, breaking the 35 in 2019 and becoming a new All-Star record for three-pointers in a single game.
8. The number of three-point shots made by the two teams in this year's All-Star Game reached 168, breaking the 167 in 2019 and becoming a new All-Star Game record.
9, Towns became the fourth player in All-Star history to score 50+ points in a single game, the first three being thick eyebrows (52 points), Curry (50 points), and Tatum (55 points). Interestingly, the first three people all won the All-Star MVP, but Downs did not, and became an empty cut.
10, Downs took 35 shots today, becoming the second-most All-Star player in a single game, second only to Bush's 39.