Smack / Feb 27, 2012 / 12:04 am

Kevin Durant Wins The All-Star Game MVP; Everyone Forgot About Dwyane Wade

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Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant (photo. Sean Sweeney)

Bryant still got the last laugh with a win, and also the all-time All-Star Game scoring record. He broke Michael Jordan‘s record for most career points in the showcase with a tomahawk dunk, and somewhere, as we wrote in the live blog, Jordan is pissed. And gambling. And probably talking s— … Why isn’t anyone talking about Wade’s triple-double (24 points, 10 rebounds, 10 dimes)? It’s only the third one ever in the All-Star Game, doing it one year after LeBron had one and 15 years after MJ did. We’ll tell you why: Wade had no major highlights and no real memorable moments. In the third quarter, someone in the media section mentioned D-Wade had a shot at a trip-dub. We were genuinely surprised. That’s what happens in these showcase games – you miss things, like how Steve Nash only played five minutes … What was the best dunk of the night? LeBron’s windmill in the early stages, or Russell Westbrook‘s one-handed sledgehammer in the lane? … Durant was asked in the postgame about a potential OKC/Miami Finals and said, “You taking it down the line man. It’s too early for that.” Still, we’re drooling right now over that matchup. After all those years where we never got Kobe/LeBron, make it happen Stern … For now, before we write our official recap of the weekend, check out this photo gallery of the players from the weekend … As we mentioned in our live blog of the ASG, yesterday we were invited to a Jordan Brand open run. For those of you who have been following us for a while, you know we go to a lot of sneaker events and normally run with other media members. That’s what we figured would happen this time. To our surprise, no. Sean Sweeney balled a few pickup games on DJ Clue‘s squad, and they matched up with Jadakiss and his team. Someone should’ve told us those dudes can play. Kiss scored on Sweeney in the lane two or three times, all the while screaming for and-ones and talking junk to everyone. “This ain’t Chelsea!” was his go-to smack talk. Soon, everything became something other than “Chelsea.” A blown layup? “This ain’t Chelsea!” A turnover? “This ain’t Chelsea!” A trey? “This ain’t Chelsea!” We don’t think Clue said a word the whole game. On the other side (there were two courts), Wale was out there throwing the Shammgod on people. We’ll dive more into this when we post our weekend recap … We’re out like Jordan’s record.

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  • Ian

    jay
    favre won a title and gave the packers tons of late drive wins

  • Ian

    heckler
    they did because the best record DIDNT get the homecourt it they alternated it. so teams didnt actually lose anything.

  • http://www.slamonline.com Slick Ric

    Here comes the punks trying to get at Rose. lol, I didnt see Kobe and Durant do all that goofy shit and they came out on business unlike other guys who shall remain nameless. thats why the west won because kobe and durant set the tone, and they were there to win, not dance until the forth quarter and avoid taking the game winning shots.

  • Ian

    control
    “Yeah, James ain’t showing he has the stuff to close it if the game is close, but because of him, most of Miami’s games aren’t close. If some of the East’s teammates came out with the same business-first attitude that Rose and LeBron had, the game wouldn’t have been close”
    yup thats always been my thing when people tell me i rather have kobe in close games that if they had lebron for the first 46 mns you win that same game by 10 or more.

  • K Dizzle

    @ Ian – u post that once a week
    “yup thats always been my thing when people tell me i rather have kobe in close games that if they had lebron for the first 46 mns you win that same game by 10 or more.

    Ever consider that it’s maybe why it’s been 9 seasons n Lebron still has zero rings? The Heat are running up n down, blowing teams out by 20-30, just like the Cavs used to do. Then the playoffs come around, defenses lock down, games get ugly, coaches can focus on one team. 3-4 point games comin into crunch time. No alleyoops, no fastbreaks. Execution in the halfcourt. U a Spurs fan so you should understand. Winnin by 10 vs the Bobcats, Bucks or Raptors in march is nice, but what do yu do in a tie game with 2 mins left? Yeah, you can have Lebron for the first 46 and hope it’s a blowout, but I’ll take Kobe cuz in the playoffs, there’s hardly ever a blowout…

  • white whale

    Biggest crunch-time error was Wade dropping the pass for an easy bucket and the lead.

  • Sluth

    I only ever take notice ot the 3 point competition at allstar weekend. Would like to see how the stars do against eachother.

  • nyk

    lebron still cant (or wont) make a game winning shot in a meaningless game

    i loved how kobe taunted him afterwards, “take the shot”

    i hope to god he doesn’t get the ball in the final minutes in the event of a close game in London this year.

    actually if Coach K is smart he would pull him out of the lineup the final minutes.

  • http://www.zwani.com/graphics/funny_pictures/images/88funny-pictures128.jpg JAY

    Ian
    Are you going to ignore the countless times Favre failed? And not just ‘failed’… not just an incomplete pass… he was the guy turning the ball over. Or panicking late in games. I believe Lebron will eventually get a ring. But he shrinks in big moments, just like Favre did.

  • Ian

    jay
    it was all or nothing for favre but still he did win comon the packers were irrelevant before him just like cleveland was before bron.

    dizzle
    and i cant keep posting it because u dont like it?? let me hate all i want. lebron never had the team to win he does now and if he doesnt win with this team then yeah ill stop defending him. team game not everyone had bynum gasol and before that shaq on their team. remember how kobe did with scrubs like bron had in cleveland??

    and againnn let me hateeeeee damn it

  • white whale

    So EVERYBODY has been hating the dunk contest for years now. I spent about five minutes coming up with ten dunks that would save the contest. These would improve the dunks due to adding a great degree of difficulty and creativity.

    . . . . . . .

    TOP 10 NEW DUNK CONTEST DUNKS

    #10 THE MASCOT: Dress up in your team’s mascot outfit and dunk from a trampoline at the 3-point line!

    #9 THE GREAT SHAQ-UALIZER: Not too many ppl have ever really smashed one on Shaq. Put him under the rim, allow him to defend however he wants, and if you can dunk on him then you have achieved a great success!

    #8 THE X-GAMES: Riding on the back of a dirtbike, an expert bike jumper will fly you across the arena towards the basket, jump off at the last second and dunk.

    #7 THE CHUTE: Setup a basket outdoors. Parachute down from the sky above towards the basket and dunk it.

    #6 THE ZIPPER: Setup a zip-line across the arena. Hurtle yourself towards the basket and finish with an ill dunk when you get there.

    #5 THE PRESTIGE: Hire a Vegas magician. When you dunk two things will happen as the ball goes thru the net. The ball will transform into a flock of birds and fly away, AND the ball will perform a teleportation trick and actually come out of the hoop at the other end of the court…on FIRE.

    #4 THE GAUNTLET: Setup the court like the final stage of WIPEOUT. You must traverse the obstacles before finally dunking over a real live lion.

    #3 THE SLEEPY HOLLOW: Dress up like the Headless Horseman with a cape covering your head and face. Ride a black horse across the court at full speed and dunk a pumpkin.

    #2 THE PAMPLONA: Let a bunch of angry bulls loose in the arena and perform a dunk amidst the horde.

    #1 THE CHARLIE MURPHY: Player performing the dunk dresses up like Rick James. Charlie Murphy kicks you in the chest. As you fly backwards, execute a reverse dunk. Watch in slow-motion replay several times for effect.

    . . . . . . .

    HONORABLE MENTIONS…

    THE MIDGET: Instead of a ball, dunk a tiny person!

    THE PINATA: As you would do to try and strike a pinata in the classic format, you must spin around ten times with your head down on a stick, stand up, take a large volume shot of tequila, and go try to dunk.

    THE PITBULL: Decapitate Mr. Pitbull, leave the shades on, and dunk his head so hard it explodes like it should be in a scene from The Story of Ricky-Oh.

  • white whale

    Almost forgot,

    THE THAI STRIPPER

    Instead of a ping-pong ball…

  • heckler

    Kobe better go for 400 total points in all star games.
    LeBron James is gonna break that scoring record anyway.

    …and then, 3yrs later, Kevin Durant is going to break it and set the new record.

  • http://www.bettlejuiceXs3.com Chicagorilla

    Some of you guys… man lol. The basektball court is not for dancing. Rose came out the same way Dirk, Yao, Duncan, and many other stars have always came out.
    When Shaq came out and danced in PHX, it was funny. But it was too much. Something you would expect from a guy like Shaq who pretty much f^cked his career away by not really caring about basketball.

    Saw some old games. They were not even close to f^ckery going on in the past 7-8 ASG. Anyone saying otherwise clearly haven’t been watching.

    And the best part of all this? The same people saying “it’s a meaningless game” are the first ones to complain that Lebron didn’t shoot or act like Wade(2012)/Lebrons (2011) triple double were soooo awesome. Or act like Kobe breaking the scoring record was this awesome thing.

    Why is it so great if the game means nothing? Clearly you idiots aren’t thinking this through. You want to defend your boys for not playing real basketball, but then you want to give them props for scoring/reb/ast.

  • JBaller

    @62 WHite whale – Some funny stuff!

  • JBaller

    It’s their choice to act a fool or not. I think Rose being himself just made the fools look more foolish in comparison. They were all probably telling him “we’re all gonna be dancing, so you should too” and he was like “no thanks man, you do what you do and I’ll do what I do”. He looked like a man among boys even though he was the youngest out there. Last year when they asked Rose who he thought the MVP would be and he said “why not me” some people took it as cockiness, but I applaud his honesty. He doesn’t suit up planning to lose, he plays to win every game and doesn’t act like he deserves anything to be given to him like LePrick and that lip gloss wearing douchebag (thanks for the reminder/link Big I) Wade.

  • sh!tfaced

    wade’s got kobe’s nose and rondo’s elbow under his belt…

    the knicks play all-star game type basketball everyday, its not like were not used to it…

    if lebron ain’t doing the dunk contest, then let’s see him (and other superstars) join the three-point shootout instead… and hopefully embarrass themselves like mj and bird did once… lol

  • CLAW

    Wasn’t that bad, and I usually hate on Lebron but at least he was trying to D up guys and get guys to step up on the D end. Watching Kobe try to “take over” was ugly, shooting over 2 guys with a guy wide open by the bucket more than a couple of times in the 4th. Dwight Howard is a clown, do you think the kids gets it? Shooting 3s and laughing all the time. Yes its a joke AS game but at least try and make it interesting, which I think they did in the 4th.

    Wade should be taking some smack today, damn he just plain fumbled the ball out of bounds all alone, that was worse than Lebron’s ill fated pass.

    LMFAO at White Whale’s comments, that would be Must Watch TV!

    @AB-Bynum hardly played because he had treatment on his knee “adding lubricant”. Does that shit work, I need some of that action!

  • sh!tfaced

    looool @ white whale – awesome shit… 3-time fluker nate robinson has to be that midget.

    you and vince mcmahon should run next year’s asg weekend…

  • Dana Walker

    Nice triple dub that led to that wi….oh wait, they still lost. The East has stockpiled all he douchiest players by far. Derrick Rose is about the only player from the East with any sense and class, hence why he is head and shoulders above those other dipshits.

  • white whale

    I think that clearly the next phase in the evolution of the dunk contest has to involve the use of pyrotechnics and zany outfits, and add some element of danger/drama to the whole deal (for ratings of course).

    Dudes gotta come out to explosions lookin’ like David Lee Roth at the start of a Van Halen concert in the 80′s!

    Seriously, would you rather watch Blake Griffin dunk over a lame ass Kia sedan, or a LIVE F*CKIN’ JUNGLE CAT?!?

    (cue panther noise…”RAAAAAWWWR!”)

  • http://dimemag.com Austin Burton

    So I got this media alert in my email yesterday. The key details, taken word-for-word from the release:

    * DENNIS RODMAN TO MAKE MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Reveals Naked Truth About Game

    * WHAT: Major announcement about Rodman’s latest venture in basketball

    * WHEN: Thursday, March 1 at 3 pm

    * WHY: Because it’s Dennis Rodman

    Oh, and the location is at a “gentleman’s club” in NYC. I have no idea what this could be. I wonder if Rodman is going to start a Naked Basketball League.

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    don’t the lakers play the heat in a week. should be interesting. i’m wondering if metta will tackle wade in a crucial moment as payback for his guy kobe. either him or matty barnes.

  • white whale

    oh also, i don’t know if anybody else noticed this, BUT…

    when they announced the ASG starters for the East and West and the players emerged from that smoky dark tunnel to enter the arena, well, that was not a run-of-the-mill stageprop entrance tunnel…

    it was lisa lampanelli’s fat-cat.

    fortunately she still had room for a dozen more players or the fire marshall could’ve given her a ticket!

  • http://www.zwani.com/graphics/funny_pictures/images/88funny-pictures128.jpg JAY

    @Ian
    I’m not the one who gave Favre the reputation of failing in big games. He earned it. And it isn’t just me who said it.

    Yes Favre led his teams to win. So has Lebron.
    Yes Favre has been the sole reason for many of his team’s wins. So has Lebron.
    But in a handful of big moments he made huge mistakes that costed his team a win in big games. So has Lebron.

    My comments, even if I take them back, will not erase Favre’s reputation. And his reputation is that he’s a tremendous talent who SEEMED to shrink in big moments. The worst part about him is when Green Bay reached the Superbowl in 2010 he said they won because “Aaron Rodgers fell into a good situation” and he was “surprised it took him so long”…. in Rodger’s second year as a starter. Sounds like he’s a jackass… just another thing he and Lebron have in common.

  • sh!tfaced

    white whale starting to look like the next jackie moon…

  • sh!tfaced

    @ AB – any chance it might be a “bottomless” party ala harold and kumar…?

  • Ian

    oh wait jay im not defending him as a person that dude is a douchebag. im just sayin he at least won a superbowl and has 3 mvps comon thats not a loser. now rodgers is better than him and rodgers doesnt have the same team favre did in the late 90s best special teams , best offense and best defense. rodgers packers defense suck. i remember the overtime game favre lost to the giants in the nfc championship that he threw the stupid pass for the interception he walked off the field like who cares really?? he was my fav player in the 90s but i hated him more than i do kobe after that.

  • K Dizzle

    @ Austin – so u goin?

    @ Ian – My bad, Hate on!
    And yeah, since every year Lebron’s been in the league but one, the east sends teams to the playoffs under .500 so I’d take Kobe’s scrub team(2004-05) to do damage in the east….just sayin

    @ Claw – Those Synvisc injections can run up to $600 an injection, but everybody gets different results

  • http://www.bettlejuiceXs3.com Chicagorilla

    DRose’s thoughts on the pregame dancing?

    “I can dance,” Rose told Nick Friedell of ESPN Chicago. “But there’s a time and place for that, and I don’t think it was right, then and there.”

    http://tracking.si.com/2012/02/27/derrick-rose-i-dont-care-about-pregame-dancing-at-all-star-game/

  • Big Island

    This is why Wade keeps trying to take people out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfuJS0SBSac

    White whale – LOVE the Prestige and the Charlie Murphy. I don’t know if the league will allow pyrotechnics, but I am sold on both of those. And I can’t hate on Pitbull. Dude tried, sucked, sold the hell out, still sucks, but is easily the happiest guy in the room wherever he goes. I can’t hate on the guy. Now if you made the guys wear his tight ass suit and glasses, then yell “Dale!” while dunking and drinking a Dr. Pepper, I would roll with it.

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    some people get too passionate about chicago.

  • http://www.zwani.com/graphics/funny_pictures/images/88funny-pictures128.jpg JAY

    I also want to know if AB is going. Lol

    @ian.
    Just to be fair, I never called Lebron or Favre a loser.

    I think it’s pretty funny that I drew comparisons between Favre and Lebron and you said “Favre is not a loser”. It’s pretty obvious what your opinion of Lebron is. Lol.

  • http://www.dimemag.com Austin Burton

    I’m not going to the Rodman thing. If I were in NYC, I think I would though.

  • http://datpiff.com beiber newz

    i hope you tell us what the big news was when you find out. although, it’d probably break news elsewhere but still

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