I love the NBA all-star game, I think that's a day of celebration.

I love the NBA all-star game, I think that's a day of celebration.NBA All-Star weekend is one of the biggest events in all of sports, filled with celebrities and fans galore.  It’s a celebration of basketball.  This year, it also included a celebration that was bigger than basketball.  Today, at NBA Jam Session Center Court in front of lights, cameras and a cheering crowd, NBA All-Star celebrated that what we have in common is bigger than what divides us.  For the first time ever, NBA Cares presented the Special Olympics Unity Sports basketball game that put athletes with and without intellectual disabilities on the court together as teammates.  NBA legends and WNBA pros played alongside Special Olympics athletes to demonstrate the unifying power of sports.

In this weekend makes me feel incredibly high tide events, so the players to the world to display their talents.Today, 12 Special Olympics athletes from NBA markets across North America proudly stepped into the same locker rooms that the likes of Kobe and LeBron were in, just the day before, for NBA All-Star East/West practice.  Yesterday, they sat up in the stands and watched their favorite stars run drills.  Today, they took to the same hardwood to show their own talents.Last night, at NBA All-Star Saturday night, before the 3-point and slam dunk contests, all 12 athletes were introduced and honored on-court at Amway Arena in Orlando to rousing cheers of support.  Today, they justified those congratulatory words with their actions.