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NBA All-Star weekend 2023 has arrived. The Utah Jazz and Salt Lake City are enjoying host to All-Star weekend for the primary time since 1993. This 12 months’s festivities are operating from Feb. 17-19, and All-Star Game rosters had been unveiled in early February. But one of the crucial anticipated components of the weekend is All-Star Saturday Night, which options the Skills Challenge, 3-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest.
The full fields for the occasions had been introduced earlier this week. Here’s a have a look at who will probably be concerned:
Skills Challenge
The league has typically toyed with the Skills Challenge format, and final season they debuted a brand new workforce format that’s again once more and options three groups.
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3-Point Contest
The 3-Point Contest has seen a number of new wrinkles lately; there are actually two extra long-range photographs value three factors every and the time restrict has been elevated to 70 seconds. The fundamental premise, although, has remained unchanged since its inception, which helps add to the mystique.
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Slam Dunk Contest
The Slam Dunk Contest will as soon as once more be the featured occasion on All-Star Saturday Night. There have been some classics lately, together with Zach LaVine’s win over Aaron Gordon in 2016 and Derrick Jones Jr.’s victory over Gordon in 2020. Unfortunately, there have additionally been loads of duds, together with final 12 months. Hopefully, this version will recapture the magic.
The full discipline for the occasion was confirmed on Tuesday evening, and options various high-flying younger gamers, together with Mac McClung, who has spent a lot of the season within the G League earlier than incomes a call-up to the Philadelphia 76ers earlier this week.
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Blazers rookie Shaedon Sharpe was set to enter the 2023 Slam Dunk Contest however determined in opposition to it in February, per The Oregonian. He was changed by Knicks large man Jericho Sims.
