The NBA All Star started this morning in Cleveland. In the first morning of the show, the games of the young promises (Rising Stars) and the famous one (Celebrity Game) were held. Cade Cunningham, rookie of the Detroit Pistons was the MVP of the game of promises that his team, led by Rick Barry, took. For his part, Alex Tussaint, a prestigious fitness instructor, was the best of the all-star match, scoring 18 points that gave the victory to the Walton team.
Cunningham, MVP in the final of the young promises
Cunningham, 20 years old, scored 18 points, 13 in the semifinal and 5 in the final, and ended up being the protagonist of a night of partying for the NBA, which successfully launched a new format. Four teams meeting in a “Final 4” with the novelty of adding four G League players to the 12 rookies and 12 sophomores (the so-called “sophomores”), was a wise bet for the NBA.
He added one more point of competitiveness to the event, with two semi-finals without a stopwatch, but with the objective of reaching 50 points, and a final with the same format, but with the bar set at 25 points. The sum of the two results, 50 and 25, was a way to honor the 75th anniversary of the NBA.
The All Star has started this weekend in Cleveland
And there was a spectacle from the first confrontation, in which the team coached by James Worthy was one free throw away from the final. However, Jalen Suggs of the Orlando Magic missed the attempt and Isiah Thomas’s side sealed their ticket to the final thanks to two free kicks by Desmond Bane of the Memphis Grizzlies.
Even more tense, if possible, was the second semi-final, in which Rick Barry’s and Gary Payton’s teams came in tied 48-48 and had the potentially game-winning shot at their disposal. Payton’s men, with eight points from LaMelo Ball, ended up surrendering to an elegant layup from Jae’Sean Tate, a talent for the Houston Rockets.
The final measured Isiah’s team, with elements like Saddiq Bey (15.9 points per game in Detroit) or Desmond Bane (17.9 points per game in Memphis), with Barry, with Evan Mobley (14.9 in Cleveland) or Cade Cunningham (15.7 in Detroit).
Those of Isiah Thomas got off to a much better start, converting two consecutive triples to escape 11-5 and then 18-12, but Barry’s team, pushed by the triples of Cunningham, Mobley and Dyson Daniels, a G League player, sealed a partial of 12-2 that opened the way to victory in the night of the stars of the future (25-20).
Alex Tussaint shone in the all-star match
Myles Garrett, player of the Cleveland Browns of the NFL, exhibited his power in the dunks this Friday, but he could not avoid the defeat of his team, directed by Dominique Wilkins, against that of Bill Walton (51-65), in the game of celebrities that opened the weekend of the Stars in Cleveland (USA).
Sports stars, such as Garrett or the Olympic high jump champion, the Italian Gian Marco Tamberi, the Brazilian Anderson Varejao, former NBA player, and rappers such as Quavo or the Puerto Rican Anuel AA gathered at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland to give the kick-off to All-Star 2022. Garrett was the leader of the Wilkins team along with Tamberi and together they were protagonists of great athletic plays and dunks that unleashed the euphoria of the fans present.
The Browns player made some powerful dunks and received cheers from Cleveland, although the MVP of the game, voted by viewers, was Peloton instructor Alex Tussaint, who scored 18 points and led to the victory of Walton’s team.
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