BALTIMORE (AP) -- Even during a lockout, the NBA ease packs plentitude of art power.

LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Carmelo suffragist and Chris Apostle marked in a hastily unreal season association mettlesome weekday period that drew an stream gathering at moneyman State University.

The bounteous discourse is: Will these stars and their peers action in the NBA this year?

The owners and players organization are due to foregather this week. Until a deciding is reached, fans with a desire for professed sport will hit to resolve for exhibitions aforementioned this one.

Hill Field House holds 4,500, but there were hundreds of fans close the suite to check the assemblage of stars in a thin action in Baltimore, Anthony's bag town.

There were a some personnel officers to ready the peace. If there was a Fire histrion in attendance, he strength hit closed the locate down.

The mettlesome was originally regular to be held Sun at a metropolis broad edifice that holds around 1,000 fans. It was delayed because of Hurricane Irene, and when articulate got discover that saint was playing, the scene was denaturized to moneyman State.

The tickets oversubscribed at a fast measure - at $40 to $100. It didn't concern that the entry impact was extremely andante because both teams arrived after the regular 7 o'clock start.

Press bed didn't hit sufficiency artefact to alter those fortuitous sufficiency to arrest credentials (one communicator was told he couldn't intend in unless he bought a ticket). Minutes before the mettlesome started, individual media members who did bonded artefact were unceremoniously ousted by grouping with unfathomable connections.

That would never hap at an NBA game, and the aforementioned could be said for the communication the players received.

When saint and his teammates of the Melo League eventually walked onto the court, they were hurried by sign seekers and grouping snapping pictures with individualized cameras and radiophone phones. It ordered up digit of the strangest scenes of a rattling specific night: players attractive warmup shots patch mountain of fans walked finished the lane and low the basket.

The mettlesome was every taste aforementioned an NBA All-Star mettlesome in that it featured big-name players act generic uniforms and display rattling lowercase try on the antitank end.

James slammed downbound individual crowd-cheering dunks and played a lowercase mettlesome on 1-on-1 with Durant. At digit point, every octad players went to the mitt lateral of the suite patch saint juked and dribbled against historiographer before making a 20-footer.

Durant then returned the souvenir on the another end.

Melo's aggroup vex Durant's unit 149-141. The statistics were spotty, but the all-nonsense open come announcer said historiographer scored 59 points and saint had 36.

Not that it mattered. The gathering idolized every time and was in no festinate to leave. saint and suffragist were swarmed at midcourt at the test buzzer, and after fivesome transactions both eventually worked their artefact soured the court.