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Heat on top, Lakers looking for a break as NBA arrives at All-Star weekend
• HOUSTON (AP) -- The last All-Star game in Houston was a glimpse of what Miami Heat games would become.
• LeBron James scored 29 points and was the MVP. Dwyane Wade added 20 and made the go-ahead basket to cap a huge comeback, and the Eastern Conference beat the West 122-120 in 2006.
• "I had a pretty good experience the first time around, looking for the same thing this time," Wade said Friday.
• The way things are going for the Heat, why not?
• And think about this: James was already the best player that night, and he was nowhere near the player he is today.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2013. There are 318 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 16, 1968, the nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, Ala., as the speaker of the Alabama House, Rankin Fite, placed a call from the mayor's office in City Hall to a red telephone at the police station that was answered by U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill.
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• On this date:
• In 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
• In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's victory earned him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant."
• In 1868, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.
• In 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.
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