Team LeBron beat Team Giannis in All-Star Game

Team LeBron beat Team Giannis 157-155 in All-Star Game.

Per ESPN, Under the new “Elam Ending” rule instituted this season, with the game ending when one team reached a specific final score, the game ended when Chicago native Anthony Davis sank the second of two free throws to lift Team LeBron to a 157-155 victory over Team Giannis at the United Center.

After James Harden made two free throws to make it 154-152, Pascal Siakam went 1-for-2 from the line to make it 154-153. From there, the two teams — playing without the benefit of TV timeouts during an untimed fourth quarter — went back and forth trying to make a basket. Eventually, the score reached 156-155 in favor of Team LeBron, which meant that the next basket for either side would result in a win.

In the fourth quarter, the game took on a thrilling, desperate edge for both sides. Both teams were called for multiple offensive fouls and settled for contested, ugly shots that looked like they were taken with tired minds and legs.

Eventually, it ended with a foul after Davis, a 7-footer, posted up 6-foot Kyle Lowry in the post. After Lowry was called for a foul, Davis missed the first free throw while being booed by almost the entire crowd. After he walked away from the line and smiled, he made the second one, spreading his arms wide as his teammates mobbed him after what was an anticlimactic ending to an otherwise thrilling game.