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Stephen Curry hits 16 3s to win All-Star Game MVP; LeBron James nails game winner

Stephen Curry hits 16 3s to win All-Star Game MVP; LeBron James nails game winner

11:19 PM ET

Tim BontempsESPN

CLEVELAND — The two kids from Akron stole the show at Sunday night’s All-Star Game.

Stephen Curry put on a shooting clinic all evening, hitting 16 3-pointers and scoring 50 points, while LeBron James hit an absurd, one-legged turnaround jumper to clinch the victory for Team LeBron over Team Durant 163-160.

On a night when the NBA honored its 75 greatest players, two of them — Curry and James — put on displays worthy of the occasion.

“Yeah, I told him on the court after the game it was kind of a perfect ending,” said Curry, who was named the game’s Most Valuable Player. “I was chasing that extra two or three points. I think DeMar [DeRozan] hit a big shot, and then [James] came out and hit the game-winner.

“It was kind of a perfect ending. Obviously I got the MVP; I played well the whole night. He hit the game-winner. All the history of our series and the Akron ties, and all that kind of going into how the night went, so it was pretty — can’t really draw…

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