SAN FRANCISCO — Congratulations, Crew C.
You’ve gained the Rising Stars competitors.
Your reward?
A visit to the All-Star Sport on Sunday night time — 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, 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 night time.
Mixed, the seven 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 will likely be added earlier than Sunday.)
It’ll face the crew drafted by Shaquille O’Neal within the All-Star semifinal, which means Crew C will tackle James, Curry, Durant, Kyrie Irving, Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Damian Lillard and James Harden.
That crew, mixed: 7,577 NBA video games, 188,331 factors, 1,812 double-doubles, 243 triple-doubles.
Nevertheless it’ll be a first-to-40 recreation on Sunday night time, previous stats not mattering a lot.
The NBA stars will certainly really feel some strain towards a younger crew that has nothing to lose.
“Nobody will want to lose to that team,” Curry mentioned.
Dink Pate of the Mexico Metropolis Capitanes and Leonard Miller of the Iowa Wolves every had 5 factors for the G League crew within the Rising Stars ultimate.
Three of the groups within the Rising Stars match had 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.
