PHILADELPHIA ? They sat side-by-side on the bench. In both halves, they checked in at the scorer's table together for simultaneous substitutions. Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki even managed to write themselves into All-Star lore as a package, helping to co-frame maybe the best dunk in the game's history.

As a couple of spectators.

Nash was victim No. 1, caught flat-footed at the elbow when Tracy McGrady lobbed the ball toward the glass with his left hand. Nowitzki was victim No. 2, right near the rim, frozen as a soaring McGrady caught his own ricochet off the board and then flushed it through with his right hand.