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February 23. 2005
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Open House
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Iverson Leads East to All-Star Win
O ’Neal adds
big dose of
personality
(A P)— A 1 len I verson took Most
Valuable Player honors as the East
beat the West 125-115 at the NBA
All-Star game Sunday night in Den
ver. B utifthere w asaM ost Vibrant
Personality award. Shaquille O ’Neal
would have won that.
Iverson had 15 points, nine as
sists and five steals. O ’Neal fin
ished with 12 points, six rebounds,
three blocked shots and three
steals.
For the second straight year,
O ’Neal made people laugh, applaud
W est c e n te r Yao Ming (left) tries to d e fe n d a s Shaquille 0 ’N eal g o e s
for a sla m during th e NBA All S ta r g a m e in Denver. (AP photo)
and appreciate his oversized way
o f doing everything, infusing an
otherwise nondescript game with
just the right amount o f precocious
ness.
Primping, preening, playful and
preposterous, The Big Entertainer
gave a supersized dose of person
ality - though he w ouldn’t go so far
as to do it while wearing a shoe
phone. The 360-pound, 7-foot be
hemoth was making his 12th ap
pearance in the league’s showcase
event.
He danced as he was introduced,
struck a pose before missing a foul
shot and goofed with the rap stars
and hip-hop artists who lined the
front-row seats across from the
Eastern Conference bench.
O ’N eal’s display of show m an
ship cam e after he unveiled his
Black History in Sports:
Althea Gibson’s 1950 Win
A lthea G ibson ’ s barrier break
ing appearance in 1950 in the
U.S. C ham pionships was voted
the m ost influential m om ent in
black tennis history by a panel
organized by the U.S. T ennis
A ssociation. G ibson was the first
black w om an allow ed to play in
the tournam ent that becam e the
U.S. Open. She died in 2003 at
76.
R anking second on the U STA
list was the 1916 founding o f the
Am erican Tennis Association, the
first black sports organization in
the USA. Third w as the winning
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in the locker room before the
game. An actual w orking tele
phone m echanism is built into the
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out near the toes.
L eB ron Jam es and Iverson
teamed up on the prettiest play of
the first quarter, an alley-oop dunk
by the 20-year-old Cleveland guard
who became the second-youngest
All-Star starter in NBA history.
Kobe Bryant wowed the crowd
late in the second quarter by reach
ing behind his head to catch an
alley-oop pass from Steve Nash
and slamming it through. Bryant
had 16 points, seven assists, six
rebounds and three steals.
The West never pulled close,
and the game ended with O ’Neal
getting to attempt a 3-pointer.
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