If you don’t follow hoops but want to know about the big stuff going on in Salt Lake City for NBAAllStar this week, here’s a quick explainer of the main events involving the NBA players coming to town.
If you don’t follow hoops but want to know about the big stuff going on in Salt Lake City this week, here’s a quick explainer of the main events involving the NBA players coming to town.
This event initially debuted in 1994, and has gone through several iterations in recent seasons. It used to be just a single game pitting a team of rookies against a team of second-year players. Then it became a team of rookies and sophomores from the United States going up against a team of rookies/sophs from other countries.
The Skills Challenge has also changed a bit. It used to be an elimination-style tournament of individual players facing each other in a timed competition that entailed such “skills” as dribbling through very widely spaced impediments, chest-passing a ball cleanly through a vertical hoop, then sprinting down the court and being the first to make a 3-pointer.
It starts with eight players, and the three highest totals move on to the championship. Those three players then shoot again, and whoever has the highest score in the championship round only is the winner. Players get three chances to make each dunk; if they can’t make it by the third try, they get a default score of 30., was the Slam Dunk contest runner-up last year.Events get underway Saturday night at 6 p.m. MT. Once again, TNT has the broadcast.There are some similarities to the way things were back in ‘93, but also some big differences.
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