NBA All-Star Saturday GameThread

Let’s talk about NBA All-Star Saturday! Tonight’s

Event Info

When: Saturday, Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. ET

TV: TNT

Where: United Center

Skills Challenge

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Eight players, regardless of position will go through a dribbling, passing and shooting course. Here are the participants, sans Detroit Pistons guard Derrick Rose, who was initially named to the contest but won’t participate due to injury.

• Bam Adebayo, Miami
• Patrick Beverley, LA
• Spencer Dinwiddie, Brooklyn
• Khris Middleton, Milwaukee
• Domantas Sabonis, Indiana
• Pascal Siakam, Toronto
• Jayson Tatum, Boston
• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City

Three-Point Contest

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Eight players, regardless of position, will shoot 25 threes as quickly as they can in five locations. Four of the five locations have four regular NBA ball worth one point and one multi-colored ball worth three points and another rack that consists solely of mutli-colored balls.

There is a new addition to the contest this year where there are two shots that are six feet behind the three-point line that can increase players’ scores.

Davis Bertans is performing in this! Here’s his competition.

• Devonte’ Graham, Charlotte
• Joe Harris, Brooklyn
• Buddy Hield, Sacramento
• Zach LaVine, Chicago
• Damian Lillard, Portland
• Duncan Robinson, Miami
• Trae Young, Atlanta

Slam Dunk Contest

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As usual, this contest features four players who will dunk twice to advance to the championship round, wash, rinse, repeat! Here are this year’s contestants.

• Pat Connaughton, Milwaukee
• Aaron Gordon, Orlando
• Dwight Howard, Los Angeles
• Derrick Jones Jr., Miami

The Wizards have one dunk contest winner, John Wall back in 2014!

Enjoy All-Star Saturday everyone!