World Team Wins Over USA In BBVA Rising Stars Challenge
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Last night, the eyes of the world were on Brooklyn and Barclays Center for the start of the 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend events. The weekend kicked off with the highly aniticpated BBVA Rising Stars Challenge.
This contest put rookie and sophomore NBA players with and against each other in a USA vs World format for the first time ever. Also, there would only be a first and second half with a time period of 16 minutes in each. The jerseys that the teams wore were different as they had an image of the city in the background but had base colors of black and white. The world team used black while the USA team white. Who would be bettet, World or USA?
1st half action saw Andrew Wiggins get easy dunks while Nikola Mirotic was bombing away from 3-point territory. Both teams were feeling each other out early when the score box read 25-18, the World team. During one play, Mason Plumlee ran down the court and looked like he was going to give the crowd a dunk contest preview until he was fouled just before he could show what he’s working with. The crowd booed heavily as everyone in the building wanted to see it. Watching the game you could tell that the players really wanted to just play and have fun with the night. So that’s exactly what the night became; a fun highlight reel type of game. Both teams missed some dunks on both ends of the floor, an alley-oop and the other that followed immediately after was an uncontested dunk. The crowd got a good laugh out of that. Team USA managed to cut the lead down to 3, 26-29. Zach Lavine got a monstrous dunk that really got the crowd hyped until Brooklyn’s Bojan Bogdanovic caused a 5-point swing in favor or the World Team. Plumlee had two consecutive dunks, but was probably looking to gauge the crowds interest level on various dunks.
USA managed to tie the game up with consecutive 3’s, 42 each team. Soon after that the game became a can you top this kind of game. defesne was absent and flare and fun took over. Every one seemed to dunk, everyone was trying to cross up each other, especially Victor Olidipo and Dante Exum. The 1st half ended when the players were throwing the basketball cross court like a football to each other for dunks. The world lead by 2 at the half.
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Mason Plumlee opened the second half of the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge with a slam dunk reminding us all that he is in the dunk contest to win it. That dunk also set the tone for the next 12 minutes. It was highlight after highlight after highlight. Dunks, trick shots, who had the better cross over, blocks, 3-pointers, steals and football like passes across court. You name it and it happened every 5 seconds until Mr. Andrew Wiggins got serious and played like he wanted to win the competition and the trophy. Wiggins would score 22 in the game. Defense returned in the final 4 minutes of the game as Team USA really wanted to win. Plumlee had the crowd going “ohhhhhhhh” after a nasty block near the rim. The USA team tried to come back and win being down 7,100-107 but the World team was just too much for the USA as the world won 121-112.
Andrew Wiggins was he BBVA Rising Stars MVP as voted by the fans. After the game, the players got into some crowd participation and started tossing prizes into the Brooklyn stands to close the show.
