The 2005 NBA All-Star Game was a major basketball game played on February 20, 2005 at Pepsi Center home of Denver Nuggets featuring the best players in the National Basketball Association as selected by fans and coaches.
In an All-Star Game that featured seven players 25 or younger and failed to produce a 20-point scorer for the first time since 1981, Allen Iverson was awarded the All -Star MVP Award. The NBA scoring leader during this season scored 15 points, handed out 10 assists, and collected five steals. The top scorer was Ray Allen of the Seattle SuperSonics with 17 points.
Iverson had already been crowned All-Star MVP in 2001, which was the last time the East had won the midseason classic. He scored 25 points with five assists and four steals.
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“Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say “Phooey,” too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)