{"id":478587,"date":"2024-02-19T08:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478587"},"modified":"2024-02-19T08:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:49:38","slug":"milwaukees-lillard-takes-home-mvp-of-2024-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/milwaukees-lillard-takes-home-mvp-of-2024-nba-all-star-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee\u2019s Lillard takes home MVP of 2024 NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was &#8220;Dame Time&#8221; all National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend long.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Damian Lillard and Michael Jordan are the only two NBA players to win an All-Star game MVP and an All-Star Saturday night event in the same year ?<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malika_andrews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@malika_andrews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FJqVGjwsyf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FJqVGjwsyf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1759432030159589724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>&#8216; Damian Lillard won the All-Star Game MVP, notching 39 points to lead the East to a 211-186 victory against the West in the highest-scoring All-Star Match in the league&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Damian joined <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/michael-jordan\/\">Michael Jordan<\/a> as the only player in NBA history to triumph in a Saturday night event and take the MVP trophy in the same All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever you&#8217;re mentioned in the same category as Jordan, it is fantastic; it is a huge honor, even if it&#8217;s All-Star Weekend,&#8221; Lillard shared after the match with the Kobe Bryant MVP trophy placed on the table before him. &#8220;Because if it were that easy, more basketballers would have achieved it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks guard triumphed in the 3-point contest at the beginning of the weekend, beating Karl-Anthony Towns and Trae Young in the winning round. Michael was in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in the dunk contest in 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was &#8220;Dame Time&#8221; all National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend long. Damian Lillard and Michael Jordan are the only two NBA players to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478588,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17039,22669],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[20017,22670],"acf":{"announce":"Damian triumphed with the NBA All-Star Game MVP.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478590,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478587\/revisions\/478590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478587"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478587"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}