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NBA All-Star Celebrity Game: Rome Flynn Repeats as MVP, Team Giannis Wins
Rome Flynn scored 17 points to lead Team Giannis to a 65-58 victory in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, coached by Giannis Antetokounmpo during All-Star weekend kickoff.
- On Friday night, Rome Flynn, actor and Celebrity Game MVP, scored 17 points to lead Giannis Antetokounmpo's team to a 65-58 victory.
- Because Antetokounmpo won't play on Sunday, he coached despite being sidelined since Jan. 23, with the Celebrity Game opening All-Star Weekend.
- Rome Flynn flashed athletic highlights with an alley-oop to Tacko Fall, who led Team Anthony with 20 points and rebounds, while Keenan Allen scored a 4-point long shot and Jeremy Lin added 8 points.
- The Forum, now under Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, returns basketball by hosting the event, once the Lakers' Showtime home until 1999, now mainly a concert venue.
- Unconventional elements such as mascots playing sixth men and a halftime CORTIS performance broadened the event's appeal, with Dylan Wang drawing the loudest cheers and Jenna Bandy being the only woman in the starting lineup.
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Actor Rome Flynn selected as MVP of the All-Star Celebrity Game, with 17 points and four assists, leading Team Giannis in a 65-58 win over Team Anthony Friday evening at the Kia Forum as the NBA All-Star Weekend got underway in Inglewood. Flynn was also the MVP of the 2025 game. Former NBA center Tacko Fall had 20 points, 21 rebounds and five blocks for Team Giannis, which was coached by two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo along with his brot…
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By BETH HARRIS INGLEWOOD, California, U.S.A. (AP) — Actor Rome Flynn won the Most Valuable Player honors for the second year in a row at the NBA Celebrities Game, by scoring 17 points on Friday to guide a team led by Giannis Antetokounmpo to a 65-58 win. Comedian Anthony Anderson served as coach of the losing team, led by former NBA player Tacko Fall, 2.29 meters, with 20 points. The match marked the return of basketball to the Forum, home of th…
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NBA All-Star Celebrity Game: Rome Flynn repeats as MVP, Team Giannis wins
Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen, center, drives to the basket past Jeremy Lin, right, and Rome Flynn during the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, at the Forum in Inglewood. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Former NBA player Tacko Fall, center, takes a shot as Keenan Allen and Jeremy Lin, right, look on during the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, at the Forum in Inglewood. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Giannis Antetoko…
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