Red-Hot Curry Has 'A Lot Of Fun'

MVP pleased with new All-Star format, but Warriors mate Green rates it 'zero out of 10'

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SAN FRANCISCO - The critics regularly blasted the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game as an event in which very little defense was being played.

The NBA's new format drew mixed reviews on Feb 16 when Team Shaq prevailed as the winners of the three-game event in San Francisco.

Stephen Curry, who was named MVP for scoring 20 points over two games and helping Team Shaq to a 41-25 victory over Team Chuck in the championship game, said he was happy with the format.

"I had a lot of fun," he said. "The intensity was definitely different than last year. It's something new, everybody is still trying to figure it out. There are ways to tinker with the product, but I think this was a step in the right direction."

Draymond Green, Curry's Golden State Warriors teammate, did not play in the All-Star Game but is very much against the format.

He did not like that there was a team of non-All Stars playing among the four squads, and he pointed out that nobody can make a run at single-game scoring records in such a format.

"You work all year to be an All-Star and you get to play up to 40 (points) and then you're done," Green said on TNT, the network televising and promoting the contest.