WNBA All-Star star games typically bring out the best of everyone, and Maya Moore certainly brought out her best on Saturday. Moore took home MVP honors after scoring an All star game record 30 points, including 8 straight in the last two minutes, to help propel the West to a 117-112 victory over the East in Uncasville, Connecticut.
“It was a blast, this is such a special time,” Moore told ESPN after the game. “We turned [the tempo] up, shots were going in.”
Phoenix’s Brittney Griner had 21 points, including a three pointer and an electrifying dunk on back to back possessions in the 3rd quarter to help give The West momentum.
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Veteran Tamika Catchings enjoyed a solid performance in her final all star game, eight points, ten rebounds, six assists. Catchings surpassed Lisa Leslie for first on the all time All Star Game scoring list with 108 points. Catchings deferred to her teammates and her defensive prowess when asked what the record meant to her.
“We have scorers everywhere, and that’s what people choose to focus on sometimes. But you also need those players who are willing to do whatever it takes to help their team win, and that’s what I want to be too,” Said Catchings in her post game press conference.
Catchings said that perhaps the
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Delle Donne wore the new Nike zoom soldier 8 FLYEASE, inspired by 19-year-old Matthew Walzer, who has Cerebral Palsy, which renders it difficult for him to tie his own shoes. Walzer, who currently attends FGCU, made a plea to Nike in 2012 asking the company for a shoe that he could put on himself so he could go away to college. Nike listened, and not only gave Walzer the freedom to go away to school, but worked with him for three years developing the FLYEASE technology, a rear entry system consisting of Velcro straps and