NBA All-Star game history notes

Imagine a total of 321 points being obliterated as the NBA all stars amassed 369 points in a (196-173) win by the far superior Western Conference.

The All-Star win is not why they are far superior.

I will cite the performances of two fine players, Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the winning West (as in Jerry, who recently and shamefully was ranked less than 25th in a sham ESPN poll of the NBA’s greatest players) and Paul George of the Eastern Conference, Indiana Pacers.

Westbrook joins the great St. Louis Hawks’ forward Bob Pettit as the only players to win consecutive MVP awards in the All-Star game as Pettit won the award in 1958, the year he led the Hawks franchise, now in Atlanta to its only NBA crown and shared the award with another great forward, Elgin Baylor of the then Minneapolis Lakers, playing their penultimate season in “Minne,” in 1959.

George scored 41 points in yesterday’s tilt, as in a pinball game going TILT with scoring.

Speaking of tilt, the word rhymes with Wilt (as in Chamberlain) and George just missed breaking Wilt’s All-Star game record of 42 points set in 1962, the year his amazing scoring average in real games, was over 50 points per game.

The great Wilt Chamberlain, shamefully ranked behind LeBron James in that horrible ESPN poll, pictured above.