Getty (CBS News) The United States men's basketball team pushed past Spain, its final opponents, on Sunday to lay claim to the 2012 Olympic gold medal. With so many superstars on the squad, it's hard to call the victory unexpected.

It's also hard to say who was the Olympic team's most valuable player. Was it high scorer Kevin Durant who led the way with 30 points? Or maybe it was superstar LeBron James, the second-highest scorer with 19 points, who completed a grand slam of honors by adding Olympic gold to his already stories accomplishments - NBA Most Valuable Player award, his NBA Finals MVP and the Miami Heat's NBA title? Or how about Chris Paul, who with James took control at the start of the final quarter? Some even argue the credit goes to head coach Michael Krzyzewski of Duke, who managed to keep the egos of all these basketball superstars in check to forge a winning strategy. What do you think?

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Posted Jan 31 2012 1:32PM - Updated Feb 27 2012 1:50AM ORLANDO -- It began innocuously enough, Miami's LeBron James subbing back in with seven minutes left in what had been a typical NBA All-Star Game (electric in spurts, snoozy for stretches). Power Cd G Burner 2 Keygen Generator. The East team trailed by 15, much as it had by double digits all night, so it wasn't clear if Chicago coach Tom Thibodeau really was sending James in with legitimate comeback aspirations or maybe to run up mileage on the best player on the Bulls' biggest rival.

Your browser does not support iframes. Eighty-five seconds later, though, the East had closed to within 138-130.

Then to six with, hey, more than four minutes left. Three with three. Then one with a whole 1:44 to go, courtesy of Deron Williams' steal and layup on an East inbounds that made it 148-147. Punjabi Shayari In Gurmukhi here. Game freaking on.

At that point, the unicorn of All-Star Games showed itself at Amway Center Sunday night: A robust, Madison Square Garden-worthy chant of 'Dee-FENSE! If it hadn't felt so right at that moment, it would have been cute, a crowd long on corporate sponsors and celebrities getting so lusty, so late. But real bsketball and serious intensity broke out in the nick of time, sending the West's 152-149 victory into the books with a deserving MVP (Kevin Durant), a frustrated James and the sense that this really had been a sports competition rather than a showy, channel-flipper's alternative to the Oscars. 'With all these great players on the floor, you never know what will happen,' said Durant, who scored 34 of his 36 points in the first three quarters, helping the West build a fat lead that it never, not quite, lost.

'Guys making big shots, and they cut it down to one. We were up 18 [21 actually].

That La Bouche Be My Lover Acapella Christmas. 's the type of All-Star Game you want to see. I'm glad I won. I'm glad I got MVP.'

By the final minutes, that honor was going to be either/or: Either Durant if the West held on to win, or James if his spark off the bench late managed to get the East all the way back. Of course, with the drama squeezed into the final minutes of the fourth quarter -- let's repeat, the fourth quarter -- the scrutiny on James' performance and decisions at the end was extreme. The Heat star did have the ball in his hands three times near the very end with a chance to win or tie -- and three times he passed it. The first went to Williams, the East within 151-149, but his 3-pointer from the wing clanged off with 8.9 seconds left. Williams got the rebound back to James, who tried to pass crosscourt right to left -- and had it plucked by the West's Blake Griffin. Kobe Bryant -- who scored 27 points to push his career All-Star total (271) past Michael Jordan (262) for No. 1 on the all-time list -- barked at James after that gaffe.