Steve Okine This past weekend the NBA all-star festivities began in Orlando FL.

The first ni ghts festivities contained the celebrity basketball game in which Dwight Howard and Kevin Durant were the coaches. The game was filled with surprisingly good t alent from the musicians and actors. Funny man Kevin Hart came with the comedic antics as always. The game was then followed by the Freshman/Sophomore game wh ere New Jersey native Kyrie Irving made a showing. On Saturday the skills challenge took place were Kevin Love was crowned the 3-po int champion, Jeremy Evans the slam dunk winner, and tony Parker the skills winn er. The main event of the weekend took place on Sunday, the NBA all-star game which came down to an exciting finish. Recent Saint Peters graduate Daniel Brown lets us know how he feels about the game. Dan Brown: In my opinion the all-star game was great. Cause my favorite player, Kobe Bryant, he got the W and he was talking trash to Lebron. Of course Lebron choked, now Lebr on is notorious for choking in games, you saw that in the playoffs last year and years before; he even choked in the all-star game. So, I was kinda happy to see that and you can see Lebron he was real distressed about it so, Kobe got into h is head. So to me it was a great al-star game. Such an eventful weekend. Can not wait to see what 2013 will hold for us. This is Steve Okne.