Boston Celtics’ Jason Tatum scored 55 points, breaking the NBA All-Star Game record, made 10 three-pointers and was named MVP of the annual exhibition game as Yannis’s Antitokombo team beat LeBron James 184. -175 in Salt Lake last night.
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron missed the second half due to a right hand injury in the first half when he tried to block a throw by Pascal Siakam of the Toronto Raptors.
Damian Lillard, the Portland Trail Blazers star, executed a decisive three-pointer, to pass the Yannis team by scoring 182 points.
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Donovan Mitchell made 8 three-pointers within 40 points, in addition to 10 assists that he gave to the Yannis team, and Lillard hit 8 three-pointers out of a total of 26 points.
Jaylen Brown was the Celtics player who scored the most with LeBron, with 35 points, and had the most rebounds in the match, with 14 balls.
Kyrie Irving, the new Dallas Mavericks star, added 32 points and 15 assists, and Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers scored 32 points for the same team.
And Tatum executed two free throws to raise his score to 53 points, making the score 177-162, surpassing the previous record of Anthony Davis, who scored 52 points in 2017.
Tatum also had 10 rebounds and 6 assists.