NBA 2012 All-Star Game

As the 2012 All-Star Game ends and the regular season in the National Basketball Association continues, NBA fans and internet betting fans are getting more and more excited to know which team is going to be named champion for this year.

The NBA All-Star day had several exciting events such as the BBVA Rising Stars Challenge, the Sprite Slam Dunk Competition, Foot Locker Three-Point Contest, Taco Bell Skills Challenge and also the Haier Shooting Stars Contest. The game between the Western Conference All-Stars between the Eastern Conference All-Stars ended along with the Western Conference All-Stars group winning, 152-149.

Kevin Durant, playing small forward for the Oklahoma City Thunders was given the prestigious NBA All-Star MVP award, beating big names like Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and LeBron James, among others. He won and finished the match with 36 points. The BBVA Rising Stars Game ended with Team Chuck winning, led by Kyrie Irving, who scored 34 points on 8/8 three-point shooting and who also received the MVP award in the Rising Stars Challenge. For the Sprite Slam Dunk Game, fans were wowed by Arkansan Jeremy Evans who plays small forward for the Utah Jazz. The winner with the Slam Dunk Contest was decided by Twitter vote and text. Over 3 million votes were cast and the winner of the competition was Evans, with over 29% of the vote. Kevin Love for the Minnesota Timberwolves won the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest wherein, Kevin Love and Kevin Durant had a finals tiebreaker which then ended with Love taking home the prize with a final score of 17-14. Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs succeeded the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, which showed an obstacle course including things like dribbling, passing and shooting. In the end, Tony Parker took home the trophy by topping Rajon Rondo's time in a playoff. Meanwhile Stanford Cardinal alum, Landry Fields, took home first place included in Team New York at the annual Haier Shooting Stars competition, with teammates Cappie Pondexter together with Allan Houston. All To sum it up, it has been a very exciting weekend for NBA supporters.

But all good things must come to an end, even this NBA All-Star Game; and for all of those other athletes and the world of sports betting, they're now back in the real game. Everyone is going to follow the remaining season to wait for the overall 2012 NBA winner. Some say that with the attention Jeremy Lin with the New York Knicks gets, the team itself is gathering support, which is a plus factor for it enhances the overall team determination to make it to the finals. But we'll just need to wait and see. To excite the world of sports and online sports bettors, Bet365 sports betting, one of the leading sportsbooks using the web, like the NBA, is also continuously giving their fans the best promos and exciting specials to add spice to their NBA nights. Bet365 is promoting its Refer a Friend promo, wherein the customers may take advantage of the rewards just by spreading the news about bet365 to close friends, relatives or other people who are into sports betting.

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