West All-Stars defeated East All-Stars, 163-158 in the 2015 NBA All-Star Game held in Madison Square Garden, New York City. Russell Westbrook was named MVP after scoring 41 points for the West Team. Lebron James led the East Team with 30 points.
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Congratulations Stephen Curry for winning the 2015 NBA All-Star Three-Point Contest, Zach LaVine for winning the 2015 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest and Patrick Beverly for winning the 2015 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge.
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Team World defeated Team USA, 121-112 in the 2015 NBA Rising Stars Challenge to start the 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend in New York City. Rookie Andrew Wiggins from Canada won the Most Valuable Player Award after leading Team World with 22 points.
Team USA is composed of rookie and sophomore NBA players from the USA and Team World is composed of rookie and sophomore foreign NBA players. Team World was led by Rudy Gobert of France with 18 points and 12 rebounds. Bojan Bogdanovic (16 points) of Croatia, Giannis Antetokounmpo (12 points) of Greece and Gorgui Dieng (14 points) of Senegal who all played against Gilas Pilipinas in the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain played for Team World.
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Cathedral Phantoms had a big victory over St Bernard Vikings, 77-44. Kobe Paras scored 15 points and grabbed 6 rebounds for Cathedral High School.
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June Mar Fajardo secured a slot as a starter in the 2015 PBA All-Star Game for the South All-Star Team after getting the most number of votes with 38,107. Greg Slaughter will team-up with Fajardo as he got 31,310 votes. Purefoods players James Yap and Mark Barroca garnered 22,937 and 15,197 votes respectively and will be start for the South Team.
#Flashback One of the best Slam Dunk Competition in NBA History as Vince Carter took home the trophy 15 years ago against Steve Francis, Tracy McGrady, Ricky Davis, Jerry Stachhouse and Larry Hughes.
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#Throwback Gabe Norwood dunk on Luis Scola was posted again by FIBA in their Facebook Page and asked, “Best poster dunk of the FIBA Basketball World Cup?” Post by FIBA.
San Miguel Beermen has lost 3 straight games since winning the PBA Philippine Cup Title. Two of those losses were against expansion teams Kia Carnival and Blackwater Elite and another loss was against sister-team Barangay Ginebra San Miguel.
Summary of the 1st 3 Games of SMB in the 2015 PBA Commissioners Cup:
Game 1: Lost to Kia, 88-78
Game 2: Lost to Ginebra, 95-82
Christopher Ryan Lutz who was part of the original Smart Gilas Pilipinas Team was born on February 11, 1985 in Illinois, United States. Happy Birthday Chris Lutz!
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