The NBA All-Star Game 2014 is live online Sunday from New Orleans on TNT and the matchup between the east and west players starts up at 8-8:30 pm ET and comes after a fun weekend and stars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Paul George and John Wall are leading the way and this is the final event from the break as the schedule picks up in the league next week.
Carmelo Anthony has been one of the most talked about players at the All-Star game, as many have speculated that he will be opting out at the end of the season to become a free agent and that has led to numerous rumors that he will be traded. The game on Sunday night will be a nice break from that and he will play alongside James as the east tries to win and this is the 63rd installment of the game and and things will be streaming from NBA.com and on TNT Overtime and there are a number of first time All-Stars this year, including John Wall, Stephen Curry, Damian Lillard and DeMar DeRozan and the Blazers star in Lillard was a very busy man this weekend, going for all three competitions on Saturday.
Lillard participated in the three point shootout, dunk contest and skills competition and he also had participated in the rising stars game on Friday and will now play on Sunday in the All-Star game. Anthony Davis is into the All-Star game for Kobe Bryant, as he will miss out while being injured and on Saturday night Wall won the dunk contest. The field was stacked this year with Paul George, Lillard, Ben McLeMore, Harrison Barnes and Terrence Ross and the east kept the title after Ross won last season and Wall took it this year with a nice reverse dunk. The team format changed things up and Wall was great and this year Lillard also did the 3-point contest and Spurs guard Marco Belinelli won it.
Lillard won the skills competition again and he did not get to the final of three point contest and now he will get the chance to try and win on Sunday night as well. The All-Star game is the next event on the schedule before the trading deadline on February 20 and this year things are shaping up to be active, but that usually means nothing major will happen. The Sixers have some trade chips in Evan Turner and Thaddeus Young, while the Houston Rockets could end up dealing Omer Asik after some heavy speculation.
Some of the top names have already moved this season, with Rudy Gay, Derrick Williams and Luol Deng all getting traded, but that will come next week and now on Sunday players like James, Durant, Blake Griffin, Dwight Howard, LaMarcus Aldridge and Lillard will be looking for glory in New Orleans. The All-Star voting was very close this year and players like George and Lillard along with Curry have shown that the NBA has some major young stars.
