News from February 15.

Larry Sanders (Mil) underwent surgery on his fractured orbital bone under
his right eye.  He is expected to be out at least 6 weeks.


All-Star Saturday Night Results

The first round of the Skills Challenge and 3-Point Contest had the
players and the Shooting Stars had the 2 teams for each conference compete
against each other and the top East player/team competed against the the 
top West player/team in the final round.

Shooting Stars  (must make shot from 6 spots on court in shortest time)
1st round  (East/West winner advances)
  East:
    Chris Bosh (Mia), Dominique Wilkins, Swin Cash        0:35.6
    Tim Hardaway Jr (NY), Tim Hardaway, Elena Delle Done  1:25
  West:
    Kevin Durant (OKC), Karl Malone, Skyler Diggins       1:00
    Stephen Curry (GS), Dell Curry, Becky Hammon          1:05

Finals
  Team Bosh        0:31.4
  Team Durant      0:43.4


Skills Competition change: team of two players, first player goes through
the course and then passes to second player who scores and then goes
through course

Skills Competition (obstacle course dribbling, shooting, passing;
  timed event)
1st round  (East/West winner advances)
  East:
    Michael Carter-Williams (Phi) 
      and Victor Oladipo (Orl)     43.3 seconds
    DeMar DeRozan (Tor) and
      Giannis Antetokounmpo (Mil)  45.0 seconds
  West:
    Damian Lillard (Por) 
      and Trey Burke (Uta)         40.6 seconds
    Reggie Jackson (OKC)
      and Goran Dragic (Pho)       42.3 seconds

Finals
  Lillard and Burke                45.2 seconds
  Carter-Williams and Oladipo      45.3 seconds


3-point Shootout (4 racks of 5 balls - 4 worth 1 point, 1 worth 2 points,
 (new) 5th rack of 5 2 point balls)
1st Round  (East/West winner advance)
  East:
    Bradley Beal (Was)       21
    Kyrie Irving (Cle)       17
    Arron Afflalo (Orl)      15
    Joe Johnson (Bro)        11
  West:
    Marco Belinelli (SA)     19
    Damian Lillard (Por)     18
    Stephen Curry (GS)       16
    Kevin Love (Min)         16

Finals
  Bradley Beal (Was)         19
  Marco Belinelli (SA)       19

  Tie-Breaker
    Marco Belinelli (SA)     24
    Bradley Beal (Was)       18


Slam Dunk Contest
[changed format to confusing mess that was hard to figure out what was
going on]

1st Round (East Team competed vs West Team in a 90 second free style
  format, 3 judges voted on team winner)
  East Team - Paul George (Ind), Terrence Ross (Tor), John Wall (Was)
  West Team - Harrison Barnes (GS), Damian Lillard (Por), Ben McLemore
    (Sac)
  All 3 judges ruled East the winner

Finals (East player vs West player to perform one dunk (with maximum 3
attempts) and the 3 judges select winner, first East/West team to win 3
competitions wins contest, for winning 1st round East selected
player-vs-player)
  Ross vs Lillard  - winner: Ross by 2-1 vote
  George# vs Barnes - winner: George by 3-0 vote
  Wall@ vs McLemore - winner: Wall by 3-0 vote
  Winner: East 3-0
  Fan voting selected individual winner based on 
    the above dunks: John Wall (Was)

#360, through the leg dunk (2nd best dunk)
@mascot holding ball on head, jump over standing mascot, grab ball,
double-clutch and over the head dunk (best dunk)


All-Star Schedule - All times Central
Sunday
  12:00 pm  Legends Brunch  - NBATV
   7:00 pm  All-Star Game  - TNT

Schedule for Monday, February 17  (All times Central)
  No games scheduled

Schedule for Tuesday, February 18  (All times Central)
  Atlanta @ Indiana              6:00 pm
  Cleveland @ Philadelphia       6:00 pm
  Toronto @ Washington           6:00 pm
  Charlotte @ Detroit            6:30 pm
  New York @ Memphis             7:00 pm
  Orlando @ Milwaukee            7:00 pm
  Miami @ Dallas                 7:30 pm
  Phoenix @ Denver               8:00 pm
  San Antonio @ LA Clippers      9:30 pm


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