{"id":19636,"date":"2013-02-18T15:57:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19636"},"modified":"2013-02-18T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:58:18","slug":"chris-paul-wins-all-star-game-mvp-award-as-west-top-east-143-138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19636","title":{"rendered":"Chris Paul Wins All-Star Game MVP Award As West Top East 143-138"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s <strong>CP3\u2019s<\/strong> world and his teammates are just dunking in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Paul<\/strong> was named MVP of the 2013 NBA All-Star Game after leading the West to a 143-138 win over the East in Houston on Sunday night. The Clippers\u2019 point guard scored 20 points and handed out 15 assists in a masterful performance. <strong>Paul<\/strong> joins<strong> Magic Johnson<\/strong> and<strong> Isiah Thomas<\/strong> as the only players in All-Star history to notch such a 20\/15 performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Durant<\/strong> scored 19 points in the first half and seemed a frontrunner for MVP honors in the case of a West win, but <strong>Paul<\/strong> took over the game down the stretch, dissecting the East defense to set up his teammates and create his own shot. The 27-year-old, six-time All-Star scored or was credited with an assist on 15 of the final 24 points scored by the West as it held off the East.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Durant <\/strong>finished with 30 points and enough highlight dunks to hear plenty of Dunk Contest pressure in 2014. <strong>Carmelo Anthony<\/strong> paced the East with 26 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s CP3\u2019s world and his teammates are just dunking in it. Chris Paul was named MVP of the 2013 NBA All-Star Game after leading the West to a 143-138 win over the East in Houston on Sunday night. The Clippers\u2019 point guard scored 20 points and handed out 15 assists in a masterful performance. Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}