“I thought the game was pretty fast paced. I’m happy we got the win.”
Despite not playing in the Rising Stars game, Wendell Carter Jr. got a warm ovation from the Chicago crowd before the U.S. Rising Stars team defeated the World team.
Wendell Carter Jr. is a winner. Well, he's always believed that. And he was again Friday without even breaking a sweat as his U.S. Rising Stars team defeated the World team, 151-131 in the All-Star Rising Stars game.
Carter wasn't able to play because of a sprained ankle suffered last month. But he received a nice response from the United Center audience during introductions and then watched the lob dunk fest in which the Pelicans' Zion Williamson apparently bent the rim on one windup power dunk, seemed to break the score clock on another and with the deft passing from Trae Young and Ja Morant finished several of the estimated 75 or so lobs in the game that turned for the US in the third quarter with the play of U.