{"id":605823,"date":"2026-02-16T06:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:14:19","slug":"donovan-mitchells-stripes-team-falls-short-in-nba-all-star-game-final-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605823\/","title":{"rendered":"Donovan Mitchell\u2019s Stripes team falls short in NBA All-Star game final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new All-Star format was a win for the NBA, even though the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>\u2019 lone representative, Donovan Mitchell, didn\u2019t end up on the victorious team.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s showcase was broken up into four mini-games. Mitchell\u2019s veteran USA team, the Stripes, played against a younger USA team, the Stars, and a third team comprised of international players, the World.<\/p>\n

Each team played each other in a 12-minute game. The teams with the two best records faced off in a final contest. The Stripes won their first two games, but ran out of gas in the final game against the younger Stars.<\/p>\n

Mitchell played a pivotal role in the Stripes\u2019 win over the Stars in their first game for both good and bad reasons.<\/p>\n

With the Stripes up two with 23 seconds left, Mitchell was stripped by Anthony Edwards while attempting a spin move around him. Edwards then hit a transition three to give the Stars a one-point lead with 20 seconds to play.<\/p>\n

Mitchell atoned on the final possession. Down one, with under 10-seconds left, Mitchell darted inside, got a pass from LeBron James, and promptly hit an open De\u2019Aaron Fox in the corner for the buzzer-beating game winner.<\/p>\n

Mitchell finished that game with six points on 2-3 shooting with three assists and two turnovers in his team\u2019s 42-40 victory over the Stars.<\/p>\n

The Stripes followed that up with a narrow 48-45 win over the World in their second outing.<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard took control of that game, going 11-13 from the field for 31 points and two steals in the 12-minute game. This included hitting the game-winning triple with three seconds left.<\/p>\n

Mitchell didn\u2019t play as large a role in the second game. He didn\u2019t attempt a shot, but was able to provide a block on Alperen Sengun.<\/p>\n

The veteran-laden Stripes came undone in the final game against the younger USA team. James, Kevin Durant, and Leonard were all a step slow after playing three-straight games, and their two younger starters, Jalen Brunson and Jaylen Brown, did little to help.<\/p>\n

The Stripes were down 26-9 halfway through the 12-minute game by the time Mitchell checked in. They went on to lose 47-21 with Mitchell providing six points in the contest.<\/p>\n

Overall, Mitchell combined for 12 points on 4-7 shooting with three assists in 17 minutes across the three games.<\/p>\n

Anthony Edwards received the Kobe Bryant Trophy for All-Star Game MVP.<\/p>\n

This new All-Star format was fun. It was a definite win over some of the previous iterations with this resembling a basketball game for most of the night. The first three games were entertaining, before the event ran out of steam at the end.<\/p>\n

Still, this was a clear step up from how unwatchable the All-Star Game has been in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new All-Star format was a win for the NBA, even though the Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 lone representative, Donovan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,147,305,193,3846,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-605823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cavs-news","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605823","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=605823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}