NBA All-Star Weekend 2019 is here, and the Saturday showcase, as always, should be the main event. With the Three-Point Contest, Skills Challenge and Slam Dunk Contest, some drama is bound to happen.
NBA All-Star Saturday Night: Start time, TV schedule, live stream info, and events
A Curry family reunion and the annual dunk contest highlight this year’s festivities.
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The order of events will be the same as always, starting with the Skills Challenge at 8 p.m. and ending in the main event — the Dunk Contest. Charlotte, N.C. will play host to this year’s games, and two Hornets will be featured. Rookie Miles Bridges will compete in the Dunk Contest, and Kemba Walker is in the Three-Point Shootout. (Walker is also an All-Star starter.)
The Skills Challenge will pit bigs against guards as usual. This year’s edition will see Rookie of the Year-to be Luka Doncic and MVP hopeful and noted slow but crafty guy, Nikola Jokic. Players of all shapes and sizes are competing.
The complete Skills Competition roster:
The Three-Point Contest will return last year’s record-setting champion Devin Booker, but prominently feature the Curry brothers. For the first time ever, Steph and Seth will compete in the event, and maybe father Dell will join them. They’ll be joined by three other first-timers, and Dirk Nowitzki, who is likely playing his last season.
Three-point contest roster:
The slam dunk contest will feature three newcomers after Donovan Mitchell, last year’s champion, declined his invite. Bridges, the hometown hero, will go against John Collins, Hamidou Diallo, and newly-acquired Knicks guard Dennis Smith Jr., who finished third last season.
The dunk contest has been a bit dry in recent years, but these guys have promise.
Here are a few of their best dunks.
John Collins:
Dennis Smith:
How to Watch
Where: Spectrum Center, N.C.
When: Saturday
Time: 8 p.m. ET
TV: TNT
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