CHICAGO – Players were taking charges, bodies were hitting the floor, calls and missed calls were being screamed about on both ends of the basketball court. The fourth quarter of the NBA All-Star Game was as intense as the final moments of a playoff matchup, the biggest names in the league holding absolutely nothing back.
In the end, Anthony Davis was a hometown hero by making a free throw.
Kobe Bryant – ever the competitor – would have simply loved the way this night went.
“That was pretty damn fun,” a sweat-soaked, exhausted LeBron James said at the end.
Davis made a game-ending free throw to give Team LeBron a 157-155 win over Team Giannis in the revamped NBA All-Star Game on Sunday night, the format overhauled to put in elements for charity and ensure that someone was going to hit a shot to end the game.