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Rihanna performs during the halftime exhibit at the NBA sport All-Star Game Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Associated Press

LOS ANGELES - With a celebrity-studded gathering hunting on, Rihanna rocked the halftime exhibit at the NBA All-Star mettlesome on her 23rd birthday.

She had other bounteous names helping her sing her hits Sunday, with Drake connexion in on "What's My Name?" and employed "happy birthday" into the lyrics. Dripping in gold chains, a red-clad Kanye West came discover for "All of the Lights," which is off his stylish album but features Rihanna.

At halftime, the lights inside Staples Center went discover and the recording screens filled with liquid droplets, setting the stage for Rihanna to rise from behind a wall singing "Umbrella."

The red-haired vocaliser presently shed her brief black meet crown and white scarf to reveal a brief black touch and a rhinestone halter. She shimmied her artefact finished "Only Girl (In the World)" and didn't shrink when her Brobdingnagian hoop earring fell off her left ear in mid-song.

While it was a employed period for Rihanna, her Negro music stars relaxed in their seats while watching the 60th annual All-Star game. The West team, led by Kobe Bryant's 37 points, defeated the East 148-143.

Beyonce and hubby Jay-Z sat courtside, with Justin Bieber (MVP of Friday's All-Star celebrity game) two seats away. Sean "Diddy" Combs, Stevie Wonder (wearing headphones), Grammy succeeder Bruno Mars, Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo, Gene Simmons, and "American Idol" judge Steven Tyler were sporadic around the arena. Rapper Nicki Minaj snacked on pink cotton candy.

Later, Rihanna sat courtside incoming to 16-year-old Bieber, making for a striking oppositeness between her colourful daylong material and his famous unsmooth 'do.

Benny, the metropolis Bulls mascot, jumped into the centre incoming to vocaliser Evangelist Legend and his girlfriend-model Chrissy Teigen to joke around.

Canadian vocaliser Melanie Fiona sang her country's national anthem, and Los Angeles native Josh Groban did the U.S. anthem. With plentitude of atmosphere swirling, Lenny Kravitz played during the pregame introductions.

Among the movie and TV stars in attending were Dustin Hoffman, Spike Lee, Warren Beatty, Rick Fox and girlfriend-actress Eliza Dushku, and Nick Cannon (without spouse Mariah Carey). CNN talk exhibit patron Piers Morgan furiously worked his cell phone during most of the action.

Snoop Dogg, Terrell Owens, Chris Tucker, tennis grapheme Venus Williams, and actors Forest Whitaker, patriarch Wyle and Ellen Pompeo took in the show, too. Los Angeles Lakers fan Jack Nicholson was bumped discover of his customary courtside seat.

Actress Gabrielle Union walked the magenta furnishings outside the field before the game, dishing on her boyfriend, Algonquin Heat protect Dwyane Wade.

"His closet is artefact bigger than mine. He's way, way, artefact into clothes that his closet is same five times the size of mine," Union said.

Wade loves assorted scents, too.

"He is a lowercase bit concerned with the odor of drink butter. He loves it for himself," she said. "He's got, I think, over 30 assorted colognes."

If the style police had been on patrol, they might hit cited past NBA great Darryl Dawkins.

Standing 6-foot-11, the Negro nicknamed "Chocolate Thunder" for his ferocious dunking knowledge made an modify louder evidence by act a lime-colored patterned suit.

As presently as Orlando Magic forward Dwight histrion spotted Dawkins, he couldn't support but substance a critique.

"He looks same a bounteous lizard. Aw-w-w, man," histrion said. "I intellection terminal night's meet was terrible, but then he came discover today hunting same a highlighter? That's belike one of the worst suits I've ever seen in my life."

While histrion and some of the other incoming NBA players dressed up in suits and ties, Lakers grapheme Bryant dressed down in jeans and a black leather jacket.

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