The 2023 NBA All-Star game wasn’t too eventful, thanks to Team Giannis having built an insurmountable lead through three quarters, making the fourth mostly a formality. However there was something to watch for Mavericks fans, and that was newly acquired Kyrie Irving scoring the most points ever by a Mavericks player in the All-Star Game.
Irving scored 32 points, besting Rolando Blackman’s 29 points from the 1987 All-Star game. The closest any Maverick has come to beating Blackman’s mark before Irving was of course, Dirk Nowitzki. Dirk scored 22 in the 2010 All-Star Game, although Dirk’s style wasn’t really a fit for the “dunks and threes” tempo these All-Star games get played at.