Close Finish, Record Crowd Highlight the 2010 NBA All-Star Game!!!

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Dwyane Wade was the MVP of the 2010 NBA All-Star game, as the East defeated the West by a final score of 141-139. Leading up to the big event, the stadium was the story, and continued to loom larger than life over the festivities with a world record-setting 108,713 people packed to the rooftop to watch the league's midseason showcase take place.

"Growing up, you don't even know what a hundred thousand is," LeBron James said afterward, of playing in front of such a large crowd. "You grow up, you say you're playing in front of a building at capacity, probably six or seven hundred people if you go to high school basketball games.

"Growing up, you can't even count to 100,000."

The magnitude of the game is something that could truly only be appreciated in person.

A football stadium is normally no place to watch a basketball game, and some of the seats were so far away that the people sitting in them surely watched it exclusively on the enourmous, HD-quality screen that stretched the length of the court and then some. But the league marketed it as a "must-attend," and it was obvious by the turnout that they were successful in that endeavor.

Judging by the way things played out, with the result not being decided until the game's final possession, it's a virtual certainty that no one regretted showing up.

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