NBA All-Star Game

This Sunday, the 2016 All-Star Game took place. The All-Star Game pits the fan favorites of the NBA as well as the best overall players in the NBA against each other with players from the Eastern and Western Conference trying to show which conference overall reigns supreme. Overall in the series, the East has shown dominance winning 37 out of the 65 All-Star Games that have been played. However, the West has been the better conference since the start of the 21st Century winning 11 out of the 17 games that have been played.
This year, the All-Star Game was held in Toronto, and it was going to be a historic game as it would be future Hall-of-Famer Kobe Bryant's last All-Star Game of his career as he will be retiring following the conclusion of this season.
The game started off with an interesting tip-off between Kobe Bryant and LeBron James due to the fact that there were no power forwards or centers voted in as starters for both teams. Throughout the first quarter, the players basically played no defense whatsoever as all the players just tried putting on a show for the fans with incredible dunks and alley-oops or three pointers that were out of the range of most NBA players. At the end of the first period, the East led the game 43-40.
The second quarter showed much of the same, as the defensive efforts of both teams were at a minimal. The teams went back and forth with scoring as the West put up 52 points in the quarter compared to the East's 47. Going into the half, the score was an absurd 92-90 in favor of the Western Conference.
As usual, the defense started to pick up a little during the second half, but not nearly as much as it could have. Going into the fourth and final quarter, the West held a 145-136 lead against the Eastern Conference.
In the final quarter, the West asserted its dominance once again finishing the game with a 51-point quarter and holding the East to "only" 37 points. At the end of the game, for the second year in a row, Russell Westbrook won MVP with 31 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, and 5 steals.