{"id":3800,"date":"2011-02-22T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2011-02-22T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:22:53","slug":"kobe-wins-fourth-all-star-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=3800","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Wins Fourth All-Star MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; <strong>LeBron James<\/strong> racked up a silky-smooth triple-double. <strong>Kevin Durant <\/strong>dropped 34 points in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amare Stoudemire<\/strong> slammed and jammed his way through Staples Center for 29 points.<\/p>\n<p>And the NBA&#8217;s younger stars still were thrilled when <strong>Kobe Bryant<\/strong> took home one more MVP trophy from the All-Star game Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone wanted him to get the MVP,&#8221; said Miami&#8217;s <strong>Dwyane Wade<\/strong>, last season&#8217;s MVP. &#8220;He came out very aggressive, as aggressive as I&#8217;ve seen anybody in an All-Star game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryant<\/strong> won his record-tying fourth All-Star MVP award Sunday night with 37 points and 14 rebounds in the West&#8217;s 148-143 win over the East. <strong>Bryant<\/strong> was well aware he had a chance to tie <strong>Bob Pettit&#8217;s<\/strong> mark &#8211; and so were his fellow All-Stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He deserved it,&#8221; <strong>Durant <\/strong>said. &#8220;Thirty-seven and 14? That&#8217;s unbelievable numbers. I wanted him to get 40, but the old fella kind of tired out a little bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8212; LeBron James racked up a silky-smooth triple-double. Kevin Durant dropped 34 points in 30 minutes. Amare Stoudemire slammed and jammed his way through Staples Center for 29 points. And the NBA&#8217;s younger stars still were thrilled when Kobe Bryant took home one more MVP trophy from the All-Star game Sunday night. &#8220;Everyone [&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-3800","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\/3800","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=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}