SAN FRANCISCO — Congratulations, Crew C. You’ve got received the Rising Stars competitors.
Your reward? A visit to the All-Star Recreation on Sunday evening — the place LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant are amongst those that’ll be ready within the second semifinal.
San Antonio’s Stephon Fortress scored 12 factors and received MVP honors, Keyonte George had a 3-pointer for the game-winning rating and Crew C beat Crew G League — composed of gamers from the NBA’s developmental league — 25-14 within the championship recreation of the Rising Stars competitors to open All-Star weekend on Friday evening.
“All of us needed to play on Sunday,” Fortress mentioned. “All of us needed to win.”
Mixed, the seven first- and second-year gamers on Crew C — Fortress, George, Phoenix’s Ryan Dunn, Memphis teammates Zach Edey and Jaylen Wells, Golden State’s Trayce Jackson-Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers’ Dalton Knecht — have a mixed 5,028 factors, 25 double-doubles and no triple-doubles of their NBA careers. (An eighth participant, Houston’s Amen Thompson, was added to the roster after Friday’s ultimate.)
“All of us are about to play in our first All-Star Recreation,” Knecht mentioned. “That is loopy. … I’d play towards ’Bron, proper? That true? I get to go towards certainly one of my teammates. It’s going to be a variety of enjoyable to get an opportunity to go on the market and make a press release.”
Crew C — which can go by Candace’s Rising Stars on Sunday, named for Candace Parker — will face the staff drafted by Shaquille O’Neal within the All-Star semifinal. Meaning it’s going to be taking up James, Curry, Durant, Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Damian Lillard and James Harden.
That staff, mixed: 7,577 NBA video games, 188,331 factors, 1,812 double-doubles, 243 triple-doubles — and about $2.7 billion in on-court earnings.
However previous stats will not imply something in a first-to-40 recreation on Sunday evening. The NBA stars will certainly really feel some strain towards a younger staff that has nothing to lose.
“No one will wish to lose to that staff,” Curry mentioned.
Dink Pate of the Mexico Metropolis Capitanes and Canadian Leonard Miller of the Iowa Wolves every had 5 factors for the G League staff within the Rising Stars ultimate.
Three of the groups within the Rising Stars event have been named in honor of Golden State’s famed Run TMC days. Crew T was named for Tim Hardaway Sr., Crew C for Chris Mullin and Crew M for Mitch Richmond.
Semifinal 1: Crew C 40, Crew T 34
George scored 10 factors, Fortress made the game-winning jumper and Crew C defeated Crew T within the first semifinal.
Semifinal 2: Crew G League 40, Crew M 39
Miller had 14 factors for Crew G League. Houston’s Amen Thompson had 10 factors for Crew M.
