NBA All-Star Weekend: Slam Dunk, 3-Point contest participants announced

Evans started off by dunking over a painting of himself dunking over a painting. Evans revealed after the contest that he did the painting himself and finished it Friday night. Ross followed that up by donning a Vince Carter Raptors jersey, paying homage to Carter’s famous 2000 dunk contest performance. Ross then took a pass off the backboard and did a 360 windmill. For his second dunk, Evans took a pass from a seated Dahntay Jones, hung in the air and threw it down with one hand. Ross set-up a ball boy just outside the paint, jumped over him and threw the ball down after going between his legs. Ross was declared the winner minutes later, garnering 58 percent of fan voting.

NBA All-Star Weekend continues Sunday with the All-Star Game. Coverage on TNT begins at 8:30 p.m. ET.

The NBA does not allow players to play in games leading up to the break only to excuse themselves from the All-Star Game itself unless of course there’s a really bad injury.

Because of this, Anthony will indeed suit up and start for the Eastern Conference on Sunday. How much action he sees will likely be up to him, so perhaps he will just want to play at the beginning of each half. Or maybe he will want to play more. We will just have to wait and see.