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LeBron James, Dwayne Wade will lead NBA teams at Florida game
The top four finishers in the NBA’s scoring race last season – Kevin Durant, James, Carmelo Anthony and Wade – are expected to play, as is Amare Stoudemire, who finished sixth in points-per-game a year ago.
Some of the league’s top point guards are also in, like Chris Paul, Rajon Rondo, Russell Westbrook and John Wall.
Memphis’ Rudy Gay will likely use the game as a way to continue recovering from the injury that prematurely ended his 2010-11 season, and Caron Butler may get a taste of a game situation for the first time since a horrific knee injury kept him out of the Dallas Mavericks’ run to the NBA title. It’s even a chance for two players who weren’t in the league last year, Eddy Curry and Damon Jones, to perhaps try and revive their careers.
Of course, unless the lockout ends, none of them will play a real game again anytime soon. The NBA has already canceled the preseason slate of games, and it’s possible that regular-season games could be wiped out if no deal is struck by early next week.
“I miss basketball,” Bosh wrote on Twitter.
For at least one night, it’ll be back in Miami.
And like they were for the first seven years of their NBA careers, Wade and James will be rivals, each leading a team. James’ team is expected to include Bosh, Westbrook, Durant, Gay, Jones, Rondo, Philadelphia’s Lou Williams, Atlanta’s Jamal Crawford and Houston’s Jonny Flynn. On Team Wade will be Heat teammate Mario Chalmers, Golden State’s Dorell Wright, Butler, Stoudemire, Anthony, Paul, Curry, Wall and Portland’s Wesley Matthews.
Copyright 2011. The Associated Press.
