ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Nba All-Star Weekend program continues: after Rising Stars opened the dances on Friday and Saturday night, this night the All-Star Saturday was staged, the long-awaited event that sees the iconic three-point races and the crushed. Many stars went to the pitch at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, starting from the highly anticipated Damian Lillard, in the 3-Point Contest despite being still from April 2025 for the break of the Achilles tendon. And he is the veteran of the Portland Trail Blazers to shine in a final that also saw Devin Booker and rookie Kon Knueppel. In the last round there is no story, since Lillard closes with a great 29, detaching Booker (27) and Knueppel, who after a good qualifying crashes on the most beautiful closing at 17. For Damian it is the third career success in the contest, third player to succeed after Larry Bird and Craig Hodges.
Space, then, at the Slam Dunk Contest, where the winner of the last three editions was not present, Mac McClung, and then the scene was Carter Bryant, Jaxson Hayes, Keshad Johnson and Jase Richardson. Hayes and Richardson were eliminated in the first round, so Bryant and Johnson competed in the final. The San Antonio Spurs player left very strong with the only “50” of the evening in the first attempt, but he was not able to close the second. No problem, however, for the Miami Heat player, who also realizes the second and makes the overtaking worth the contest. At the beginning of the evening, the Shooting Stars was held, a competition in which two teams compete with shots from different positions: to win was Team Knicks, where two current stars such as Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns composed a third with the legend Allan Houston, beating Team Cameron, formed by Jalen Johnson, Kon Knueppel and the former star of Clippers and Hornets.
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