Kobe Bryant was all over the place in Vegas this weekend, getting second in the Skills Competition, judging next to Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins in the Dunk Competition, and winning the MVP in the All-Star Game.
My own personal MVP of the weekend was Charles Barkley, who beat 67-year-old Dick Bavetta in a contest where both men appeared to be laboring, there were actual stakes in the contest, and both sides ended up sprawled out on the hardwood. Plus everything was for a good cause- hilarity and charity.
In other Lakers All-Star news, Andrew Bynum and Jordan Farmar were in the Rookie-Sophomore game. Neither of them were very impressive in a game that was maybe the most unimpressive exhibition in a weekend of unimpressive All-Star unimpressivness.
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