Taking stock of the winners and losers from NBA All-Star Weekend

This first appeared in the Feb. 19 edition of The Washington Post’s NBA newsletter, the Monday Morning Post Up. You can subscribe by clicking here.

LOS ANGELES — This year’s NBA All-Star Weekend was capped off by the league holding it’s 67th All-Star Game here at Staples Center on Sunday night, with Team LeBron emerging with a 148-145 victory over Team Stephen in the first year of the game’s new format.

Here is a rundown of the winners and losers from this weekend’s festivities.

Winners

The NBA

The league knew it had problems with the way the All-Star Game was going. The players clearly didn’t put in much effort over the past few years, and last season’s game — a 192-182 farce in New Orleans — was a nadir for the league.

So the NBA took a big swing, blowing up the format and instead having teams captained by the top two vote-getters — LeBron James and Stephen Curry — who then picked their respective teams. Additional financial incentives for both the players and the charities of the captains’ choosing were also included.

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