LAS VEGAS -- The NHL All-Star Game took over Las Vegas this weekend, producing memorable moments, incredible sights and, in the biggest surprise, some close, compelling 3-on-3 hockey games.

Here are 10 takeaways from the Friday skills competitions and the Saturday All-Star Game, which the Metropolitan Division won with Philadelphia Flyers center Claude Giroux getting MVP honors.

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Free-agent center Liz Cambage has verbally committed to play for the Los Angeles Sparks, sources told ESPN Saturday night.

A four-time All-Star and one of the most marketable players in the WNBA, Cambage is expected to play a major role for the Sparks alongside forwards Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike.

Cambage, 30, averaged 14.2 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.6 blocks last season for the Las Vegas Aces.

Cambage has also played for the Australian Olympic team, winning bronze in 2012 and reaching the quarterfinals in 2016. She did not play in the 2020 Olympics, citing mental health reasons.

The Sparks made room to sign her by trading Erica Wheeler to the Atlanta Dream for Chennedy Carter this weekend.

L.A. also agreed to terms with free agent guard Jordin Canada on Saturday, sources told ESPN. The former UCLA star won two titles as a member of the Seattle Storm.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Mike Krzyzewski walked out of the tunnel and onto the court at the Dean E. Smith Center for pregame warm-ups on Saturday. It was his 36th trip into the belly of the beast and also his last one.

His presence on the court instantly ignited the crowd, a packed house that had come to say -- well, not so much farewell, but perhaps good riddance to their most hated nemesis.

It's exactly what Mike Krzyzewski was hoping for.

"I'm used to it," Krzyzewski said. "I got what I expected, and I'm always ready for it."

So, too, was his team. In mere minutes, Duke had silenced the raucous Carolina crowd, jumping to a 31-8 lead through the first 10 minutes, fending off a late charge at the end of the first half, then cruising to an 87-67 win, the fourth-largest of Krzyzewski's career in Chapel Hill.

Duke's dominance siphoned nearly all the energy from the Smith Center, and North Carolina, which has now lost four games by 20 or more, did little to reignite the fire.

What began with a chorus of boos and epithets from the rowdy UNC fans ended with a race to the exits with nearly 8 minutes still left on the clock.

"Not even getting punched first, but going out there and fighting," said A.J. Griffin, who led the Blue Devils with a season-high 27 points. "That's what I love about this team."

Krzyzewski's final season at Duke has already been filled with its share of sentimentality, from signature wins over Gonzaga and Kentucky to an emotional send-off alongside legendary coach Denny Crum at Louisville last month.

Saturday's festivities included no such emotion. There was a photo displayed before the game of Krzyzewski, coach-in-waiting Jon Scheyer, former UNC coach Roy Williams and current coach Hubert Davis, but beyond that, there were no signs that an era was ending.

On Friday night, Krzyzewski showed his team a highlight tape of epic moments in the Duke-Carolina rivalry. Due to COVID-19, none of the Blue Devils' freshmen or sophomores had experienced the intensity and energy and noise that comes from a road trip to Chapel Hill, and he wanted the team to get a feel for it. There was no reminiscing, he said. Just preparation.

When the boos came, Duke's players heard them, too. But there was no pregame huddle in which the players promised to return that energy with a blistering run of dunks and jumpers. And afterward, Wendell Moore Jr. was quick to point out that it was Miami's loss earlier in the week -- a loss that opened the door for Duke to take command of the ACC in the standings -- that was the team's primary motivator.

Even in the wake of such a dominant performance, Moore insisted there would be little more than a token celebration -- just enough for the 10-minute bus ride back to campus.

And yet, how could anyone not appreciate the magnitude of this final trip behind enemy lines for the Tar Heels' biggest villain, a man who, on Saturday, chalked up his 50th career win over UNC?

"A win in Carolina is always special, but especially with this being his last one," Moore said. "It's not like anyone said, 'We're going to do this for you,' but on the inside, we knew we wanted to do this for Coach because he really deserves it."

Instead of nostalgia and sentimentality, however, Krzyzewski stuck to his usual script. He loved the rebounding, with Duke holding a 40-24 edge and allowing Carolina just six offensive boards. He loved Griffin's skills. He'd drawn up a play to get Griffin an open look to start the second half, and the freshman ran with it, hitting the first four buckets as Duke ran its lead from 11 to 21 before UNC made a shot.

Duke shot 58% for the game, its best performance against the Heels in 25 years, according to ESPN Stats and Information.

What Krzyzewski didn't seem to care much about at all was his farewell moment in front of the most hostile of crowds.

Indeed, Moore said afterward that Duke embraced the role of villain, that the Blue Devils relish the hatred. But Krzyzewski laughed that off, wondering what book Moore was reading that allowed the word "villain" to worm its way into his conscious. Instead, Krzyzewski framed the narrative in the most mundane terms possible.

"What people think is being a villain," Krzyzewski said, "is just being prepared."

It was, perhaps, one last twist of the knife in a place that helped define his legacy. What could be a better send-off for Krzyzewski in Chapel Hill than for 21,170 Tar Heels fans to announce their hatred in unison, only for Krzyzewski to ignore it all, coach his team to a dominant win, then suggest he'd never understood he was the villain to begin with?

After all, the villain never gets the last laugh like Krzyzewski did Saturday.

Snowboarder Julia Marino is the first medalist for Team USA at the Beijing Olympics.

The 24-year-old from Westport, Connecticut, landed back-to-back 900s and a front-side double cork 1080 on her second run Sunday morning in the women's slopestyle finals to take silver behind New Zealand's Zoi Sadowski-Synnott.

"There's so much emotions," Marino said after the contest. "It's pure excitement and happiness. It was a great day. The weather was perfect, the course was perfect. I couldn't have asked for a better finals. That's how it should be at the Olympics."

The last rider to drop in the contest, Sadowski-Synnott landed a massive, technical run to become her country's first Olympic champion in any winter sport. The 20-year-old took bronze in big air at the event's debut at Pyeongchang 2018.

"To land my run and come away with gold, it feels unreal," Sadowski-Synnott said after the event. "I'm super proud of where my snowboarding has come in the last four years and super proud to be Kiwi and show the world what Kiwis are made of. I really hope my performance here will inspire young kids to take up snowboarding."

Two-time defending Olympic champion Jamie Anderson, 31, came into the event as a heavy favorite to finish on the podium, if not become the first woman to win three straight gold medals in snowboarding. But she struggled throughout the contest, failed to land a run and finished ninth.

"Not this year," Anderson could be heard saying after her third run, as she hugged her teammate, Marino, at the bottom of the course.

Two-time Olympian Hailey Langland of Carlsbad, California, landed a strong second run to qualify Saturday, but never figured out the rhythm of the course and finished 11th. That was true for many of the top women, as few riders landed full runs and even fewer attempted their biggest tricks.

But Sadowski-Synnott landed when it counted. Over the past few years, she has become the most dominant woman in slopestyle riding. She is a two-time world champion and the defending X Games Aspen gold medalist in slopestyle and big air.

In February 2021, Sadowski-Synnott won the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, stop of the Natural Selection big mountain contest, proving she is one of the strongest all-around riders in the world. But it is Marino who will make the morning TV show rounds in the U.S. come Monday.

Known as one of the most consistent contest riders in the sport, Marino helped introduce double corks and double underflips to slopestyle competition. She was the first woman to land a double cork in slopestyle competition in 2016 and, at X Games Aspen in 2017, she became the first woman to land a double underflip in competition and won slopestyle and big air in her rookie debut.

"This hugely makes up for 2018," Marino said, referring to the windy, treacherous conditions the women faced during finals in Pyeongchang. "This was four years of redemption."

Australian rider Tess Coady earned the bronze.

LOS ANGELES -- For the second time this season, Russell Westbrook was benched by Lakers coach Frank Vogel to close out a game. Only this time, the Lakers won, beating the New York Knicks 122-115 in overtime on Saturday.

And the result made all the difference to Westbrook in accepting the decision.

"The best part of this game is that you win," Westbrook said after scoring five points on 1-for-10 shooting with six assists and four turnovers in 29 minutes. "Guys competed. We won the game and that's all that matters."

Vogel, who kept Westbrook on the bench for the first six minutes and 30 seconds of the fourth quarter as L.A. built a six-point lead after trailing by as many as 21 early in the game, decided to take Westbrook back out in OT after seeing how the point guard closed the fourth.

Westbrook scored zero points, missing his only field goal attempt and going 0-for-2 from the free throw line and didn't register any other statistics as the Knicks went on a 16-10 run to end regulation after he was subbed in to tie the score. Vogel went with a lineup of LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Malik Monk, Trevor Ariza and Talen Horton-Tucker in the extra session.

"That [fourth quarter] stretch was part of it," Vogel said of his decision-making process. "I think obviously Russ was having a tough night on both sides of the ball and Bron was really going. So I knew the ball was going to be in Bron's hands and I felt like we were going to get more from a defensive perspective and off-ball action with Talen, so ... you just make tough decisions in the spirit of whatever the team needs to win a game."

Westbrook was good natured while meeting with reporters after the game and explained how the experience felt different than nine games ago when he was pulled down the stretch of a 111-104 loss to the Indiana Pacers.

"I just talked to [Vogel] about that I was upset about it," Westbrook said of the Indiana game. "But I was more upset I didn't win the game. But not about when or how he would do it. But it doesn't matter. Like I said, it's not about me. I don't want to make it about me. It's more about our team and our guys. Tonight we got a good win and now move onto the next one."

Acquired in a blockbuster trade on draft day, which included sending out two key contributors to the Lakers' 2020 championship team in Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Kyle Kuzma to the Washington Wizards to make it happen, Westbrook has become the poster boy for L.A.'s underachieving season. From his exorbitant salary of $44 million being the highest on the team to his high turnover rate and sometimes erratic shot selection, criticism has followed seemingly his every step since coming to his hometown team.

However, Saturday his teammates lifted him up.

"I just told him to text me later," James said of his postgame conversation with Westbrook. "I told him to keep going, to stop second-guessing himself during the game. There were a couple of times where he had good looks, second-guessed himself and a couple times where he had some drives and he had them and second-guessed himself. He's an instinctive player and he should never, what he's done in this league, he should never second-guess himself if he's put the work in -- and he's put the work in. So I just told him to just hit me later.

"And I don't need to harp on what we need to say to him. I mean, he's a big-time player. And I have the utmost confidence in his ability, not only for this team but for himself, individually."

The Crypto.com Arena crowd got on Westbrook with boos, first for a shot he took when he missed a midrange jumper badly off the side of the backboard in the second quarter with L.A. trailing and then for a shot he passed up when he was open in the corner behind the 3-point line late in the fourth.

"It can be frustrating," Davis said. "The fans, obviously, want to see him play better. But one thing you can't do is put too much pressure on yourself. You have to go out there and play freely. There were some shots tonight that he usually takes in rhythm that he kind of passed up or hesitated. Me and LB were telling him, 'We don't care if you miss every one. Just play. Shoot your rhythm shots. Don't hesitate.'"

Westbrook downplayed his poor play, explaining that nights like Saturday occur over the course of an 82-game season.

"It happens," he said. "I missed some shots that I normally make. Like I said, I don't want to keep making it about me. When I play bad, you guys ask me a s--- ton of questions. And then when I shoot the ball well, I don't hear too many of those questions. So I don't want to keep making it about me and what I'm doing. We won the game and that's the most important part."

It was just the 17th game that Westbrook, James and Davis have played together out of the 54 games L.A. has logged this season. Despite Westbrook's sometimes shaky play, L.A. is now 10-7 in those games.

"It could be good," Westbrook said when asked what could happen if L.A.'s Big Three can keep playing together down the stretch. "Just based on a night-in, night-out basis, establishing rhythm, it could be good. So hopefully we can see what that looks like moving forward."