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NBA commissioner dismisses allegations defense was played during All-Star Game


Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant scored 37 points and pulled down 14 rebounds in leading the Western Conference to a 148-143 victory Sunday in the NBA All-Star Game.

LeBron James finished with 29 for the East, as well as 12 rebounds and 10 assists, joining Michael Jordan as the only players to have recorded an All-Star triple-double.

Defense was not played.

Roberto De Vido is a communications consultant, writer, cartoonist and jack of many trades. The former chief of Tucson Sentinel’s East Asia Bureau, he now lives in California (make of that what you will).

“He was not passing the ball, at all. But that’s Kobe.”

— Amare Stoudemire

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