February 14, 2001
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All Star Game Turns to Stunning Performances
W ASHINGTON (AP) - A stunning
fourth-quarter com eback led by Allen
Iverson. A th rillin g fin al-m in u te
shootout betw een Stephon M arbury
and K obe Bryant.
The ball in B ryant’s hands for the
last shot. A pass that no one expected.
A last-second miss. A postgam e cel­
e b r a tio n
w o rth y
of
Ju n e .
Yes, it was quite an A ll-Star game.
Iverson, M arbury and their Eastern
Conference teamm ates transformed
w hat looked like a blow out loss into an
improbable 111-110 victory Sunday in
a perform ance befitting the 50th anni-
Allen Iverson gets by Jason Kidd in the NBA All Star classic.
ESPN to Showcase Portland
Grand Prix aTrack Meet
P o r t l a n d ’s in te r n a t io n a l
tra c k an d f ie ld m e e t, th e
A didas O regon T rack C la s­
sic, has been selected to jo in
the IA A F G rand Prix C ircuit.
The llth -a n n u a l com petition
w ill be held on Sunday, June 3
at M ount H ood C om m unity
C ollege. The meet will be tele­
vised natio n ally by ESPN as a
part o f the USA Track & Field
G olden Spike Tour.
It w ill be one o f 28 w o rld ­
w ide track m eets w here a th ­
letes can earn points to q ualify
for the 2001 IA A F G rand Prix
Finals on Sept. 9 in M elbourne,
A ustralia.
Rose City to Host Slowpitch ‘B’
The Portland M etro Softball
A ssociation has been awarded
the m en’s slow pitch B ASA/
USA W estern N ational C ham ­
pionships for Sept. 20-23. The
tournam ent will be played at the
W illiam V . Owens softball com­
plex at Delta Park. The winner
o f this tournam ent will qualify
for the USA National Champi-
onship to be played in O kla­
homa City, Oct. 20-21. For more
in fo rm a tio n , c a ll th e D e lta
Sports C om plex at 503-823-
3112.
Trail Blazers to Televise Sacramento Game
The Portland Trail Blazers an­
nounced M onday that they will
televise Thursday’s home game
against the Sacramento Kings on
BlazerCable.
“W e are very pleased to be
able to add this game to our
BlazerCable schedule. It will al­
low our many fans to be able to
see the game which features the
two top teams in the Division,”
said Harry Hut, Blazers executive
vice president and chief operat­
ing officer.
The Blazers host the Kings in
the Rose Garden in a 7 p.m.
match-up. The M cDonalds Pre-
Game show starts at 6:30 p.m.
versary o f the game.
“ It was like a championship game
out there,” Dikembe M utombo said.
*T ve been in the A 11-Star game the last
seven years, and I’ve never seen any­
thing like this.”
It was the kind o f game that might
stop people from bashing the NBA as
boring, or dism issing the East as far
weaker than the West, the kind o f game
that might m ake the casual fan appre­
ciate the heart and determination o f
some o f the younger stars trying to
seize the spotlight in the post-Jordan
era
Mostly, it was kind o f gam e that any
fan o f any sport would prefer to see —
a riveting one
Iverson scored 15 o fh is 2 5 points in
the final nine minutes, and M arbury hit
two 3-pointers in the final 53 seconds
as the East cam e back from a 21 -point
deficit.
Bryant, the N B A ’s leading scorer,
could have taken the last shot. Instead,
in a shock to everyone sitting in the
building and watching on television,
he threw a pass that resulted in a last-
second m iss by Tim Duncan.
“Everybody was saying w e couldn’t
win because o f our size. It’s not about
size. It’s about the size o f your heart,”
Iverson said. “Coming into the fourth
quarter, we were all sitting on the side­
lines saying ‘W hy not us? W hy can ’t
we be the ones to come back from a 19-
point deficit (after three quarters) in an
All-Star game?”
T u rn s
out
th e y
co u ld .
W hile presenting the M VP aw ard to
Iverson, NBA com missioner David
Stem, with a sly grin on his face, told
Iverson that great basketball “can be
w rapped — if you pardon the expres­
sion — in very small packages.”
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