Powell played for the World team<\/a> because of his time with the Jamaican national team, the country of his father\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\nScores aside, Powell said it was a memorable experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe experience was amazing, no complaints,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing able to participate in a full weekend for the first time, the 3-point contest and the All-Star game, just enjoying and creating memories with all the guys that I\u2019ve gone up against and competed with and looked up to before I even made it to the NBA. So it\u2019s an A-plus weekend for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Playing off the bench in a pair of 12-minute games, Powell first went scoreless on 0-for-3 shooting in 6:55 in his team\u2019s first game, a 37-35 loss to Team Stars, a game that went to overtime and was won on a 3-pointer by Toronto Raptors star Scottie Barnes.<\/p>\n
In his team\u2019s second game, Powell closed with five points on 2-of-4 shooting in 6:45, helping tie it late before Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard, playing in his home arena, gave Team Stripes a 48-45 victory with a decisive 3-pointer.<\/p>\n
In his 11th season, Powell, 32, was selected as an All-Star reserve by Eastern Conference coaches.<\/p>\n
Making the experience all the more meaningful was a surprise party thrown in his honor by friends and family, as he made his South California return.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most memorable moment,\u201d he said, \u201cwould be the surprise party that was put on for me. Walking in and seeing everybody that has helped me along this journey of making it to the NBA and having an 11-year career, since elementary school, you know, all the way up until the NBA, it\u2019s just a moment that you can\u2019t even put into words \u2013 seeing everybody that\u2019s encouraged you, helped you in your toughest and darkest times, to stay motivated, stay focused, and stay setting out to achieve the expectations and goals that I had out for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
The appearance came a week after the birth of Powell\u2019s first child, a daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she\u2019ll be really proud of me and hopefully just looking at my career will motivate her one day to go after something that she wants, as well,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd hopefully I\u2019ll get some brownie points for being a cool dad amongst her friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Team USA Stars won the round-robin competition, with that roster\u2019s Anthony Edwards named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament, winning the Kobe Bryant Award.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s appearance for Powell came after he finished fifth in the 3-point contest on All-Star Saturday a day earlier. Powell remained after that contest to root on Heat teammate Keshad Johnson, who then won the All-Star dunk contest<\/a>.<\/p>\nSunday, Heat two-way player Jahmir Young played in the G League All-Star game, where his team was eliminated in the opening round of that four-team tournament, with Young scoring six points on 2-of-4 shooting in 7:08 of action.<\/p>\n
The Heat are in the midst of an eight-day All-Star break, to resume their schedule Friday against the Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norman Powell\u2019s first appearance at the NBA All-Star Game afforded the Miami Heat forward the opportunity to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,165,295,189,3881,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-605503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-heat","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116077744899933998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}