The Spurs‘ Carter Bryant, the Lakers‘ Jaxson Hayes, the Heat‘s Keshad Johnson and the Magic‘s Jase Richardson have been named the participants in the All-Star Slam Dunk competition, the league announced in a press release. It will be held next Saturday at the Clippers’ new Intuit Dome.
All four players will be making their event debuts. Richardson, a rookie guard, does have a familial connection with the contest. He is the son of two-time Slam Dunk champion Jason Richardson (2002 and 2003).
The league also announced the teams for the Shooting Stars competition on Saturday. Four teams of three – each featuring two NBA players and one NBA legend – will compete in the event.
- Team All-Star: Raptors star Scottie Barnes and Thunder big man Chet Holmgren will be joined by three-time All-Star Richard Hamilton.
- Team Cameron: Three Duke University alums will team up, with Hawks All-Star Jalen Johnson and Hornets star rookie Kon Knueppel being joined by former 14-year NBA veteran Corey Maggette.
- Team Harper: Five-time NBA champion Ron Harper Sr. pairs up with his sons, Spurs guard Dylan Harper and Celtics swingman Ron Harper Jr.
- Team Knicks: Knicks teammates and All-Stars Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns will team up with Allan Houston, who made two NBA All-Star teams and is now a member of New York’s front office.
The Shooting Stars will feature a two-round format, with all four teams competing in the first round and the top two advancing to the final round.
Teams will compete one at a time and have 70 seconds to score points while rotating through seven designated shooting locations around the court, with all three players on a team shooting at each spot in a set order. The team with the higher score in the final round will be crowned the champion.
No mac the goat this yr?
He will be in the Rising Stars game.
This is so embarrassing
I’m proud of you, you took the first step. At least you’re talking about it. Take it one day at a time and soon enough people will accept you for who you are and you won’t be embarrassed anymore.
You don’t even get an E for effort on this
The Shooting Stars teams are kind of fun, but at this point, just scrap the dunk contest.
VJ is not in slam contest …. that’s disappointing lols.
Come on kid ….. what are you doing.
I have never seen an impressive dunk from anyone competing this year in the dunk contest 💀💀💀. The Shooting Stars competition should be fun though
This will never happen, but you should have to be a participant in the actual All-Star game to participate in the dunk contest and other skills events. No one wants to see G-Leaguers and fringe NBA players they’ve never heard of competing.
Yeah who would want to see guys like Aaron Gordon and Gerald Green in the dunk contest?
It was also terrible seeing Spud Webb and Nate Robinson win /s
Did they cancel the 3 point contest
I would love to see a German team in the shooting contest:
The Wagner Brothers, Franz and Moritz, and the living legend Dirk Nowitzki.
Scottie Barnes is always in the skill (now shooting stars I guess) contest lol
I’d like to see an all-Scottie team: Barnes, Pippen, and Pippen Jr.
This and the Pro Bowl has ran its course. It’s over. Let’s move on
I don’t mind the rising stars game, the three point contest rocks. That’s about it though.
I’m not even going to watch the dunk contest on principle. What a joke of a lineup. Star players, hell, even good players, are such cowards for not risking embarrassing themselves. Guess they didn’t offer a big enough entrance fee to Mac. Totally get why he doesn’t want to do it again. He’s done his best dunks already, they all start to look the same after a while. Three years is enough.
Getting desperate! Just skip it!
So the Orlando Magic lone representative at the AS game is Jase Richardson… Anyway,the Duke team is going to dominate the shooting competition.
Way back in the day the slam dunk competition was headlined by actual superstars. That all began to change in the early 90’s when Dee Brown and Cedric Cebalos won the title. Now we are lucky to get actual NBA players competing.
The NBA should allow the fans to vote who they want to see compete. Here is my list: Jaylen Brown, Anthony Edwards, Cooper Flagg, Donovan Mitchell, Ja Morant, and yes Lebron James.
This seems so boring