2014 All-Star Saturday Night Participants

[SoF'nAwesome]

JaoSming already posted the Dunk Contest participants. I thought I would post the rest.

2014 NBA Three-Point Contest:

Eastern Contestants:

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Kyrie Irving                      Cleveland Cavaliers   
Bradley Beal                      Washington Wizards   
Joe Johnson                       Brooklyn Nets   
Arron Afflalo                     Orlando Magic


Western Contestants:

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Stephen Curry                      Golden State Warriors   
Marco Belinelli                    San Antonio Spurs   
Kevin Love                         Minnesota Timberwolves   
Damian Lillard                     Portland Trail Blazers


2014 NBA Skills Challenge:

Eastern Contestants:

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Michael Carter-Williams            Philadelphia 76ers   
DeMar DeRozan                      Toronto Raptors   
Giannis Antetokounmpo              Milwaukee Bucks   
Victor Oladipo                     Orlando Magic   


Western Contestants:

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Damian Lillard                     Portland Trail Blazers
Goran Dragic                       Phoenix Suns
Reggie Jackson                     Oklahoma City Thunder   
Trey Burke                         Utah Jazz   


2014 NBA Rising Stars Challenge Rosters:

Team Chris Webber:

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Anthony Davis   
Michael Carter-Williams   
Tim Hardaway Jr.   
Trey Burke   
Jared Sullinger   
Mason Plumlee   
Victor Oladipo   
Steven Adams   
Kelly Olynyk

Team Grant Hill:

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Damian Lillard   
Bradley Beal   
Andre Drummond   
Harrison Barnes
Terrence Jones   
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Jonas Valanciunas   
Dion Waiters   
Pero Antic   

2014 NBA Shooting Stars Competition Rosters:

Western Contestants:

Team Curry:

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Stephen Curry       Golden State Warriors
Becky Hammon        San Antonio Silver Stars
Dell Curry               (retired)

Team Durant:

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Kevin Durant              Oklahoma City Thunder
Skylar Diggins            Tulsa Shock
Karl Malone                   (retired)

Eastern Contestants:

Team Bosh:

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Chris Bosh                    Miami Heat
Swin Cash                     Chicago Sky
Dominique Wilkins               (retired)

Team Hardaway:

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Tim Hardaway Jr.              New York Knicks
Elena Delle Donne             Chicago Sky
Tim Hardaway                      (retired)

[Mandich]

Lillard is one busy guy.

[shadowgrin]

As long as Lillard doesn't pull a Gerald Wallace in the dunk contest it's fine if he doesn't do well in the rest.

[deihatein]

I wonder how that Bucks rookie and Derozan will fair in the skills challenge.

[Andrew]

That'll be fun to see Stephen Curry and Dell Curry teaming up in Shooting Stars. I'll take...

...Kevin Love to win the Three Point Shootout.
...Damian Lillard to win the Skills Challenge.
...Team Grant Hill to win the Rising Stars Challenge
...Team Curry to win the Shooting Stars Competition.

[NovU]

I will go with...

Stephen Curry to win the Three Point Contest
Damian Lillard to win the Skills Challenge
Team Chris Webber to win the Rising Stars Challenge
Team Durant wo win the Shooting Stars Competition

[shadowgrin]

Team Curry
Team Webber if Olynyk plays more than 30 minutes
Dragic for the skills
Belinelli for the three

[SoF'nAwesome]

I'm gonna take some unlikely guesses because chances are the guys we expect the most from(Curry, Lillard) might not perform up to the hype.

Irving for 3pt
Dragon for Skills
Team Webber
Team Durant

[Andrew]

I'm gonna take some unlikely guesses because chances are the guys we expect the most from(Curry, Lillard) might not perform up to the hype.

That's one of the reasons I didn't pick Curry in the Three Point Shootout.

[_Steve_]

No way Curry isn't going to win the 3pt shootout.
I'm not sure about the skills, but I'm a Lillard fan.
The rest is team Curry and team Webber.

[Andrew]

Well, he didn't win it last year; in fact, he didn't get out of the first round. So, it's not inconceivable that he doesn't win this year.

He is a good pick of course and if he does win, it won't be a huge surprise...especially since I've decided to pick Kevin Love instead. As SoF'nAwesome noted however, players who would seem to be the favourites in the All-Star Weekend events have a habit of coming up short. Not always, of course, but we do see the player with the best three point percentage on the season lose the shootout, the best player in the Skills Challenge screw up and get the worst time, etc.

[_Steve_]

That would mean J.J. will win the contest.
But I agree with you about weird results. I'll never forget MJ's try in 1990 when he scored just 5 points in a round against Craig Hodges.

[shadowgrin]

I still think Hodges challenged Jordan to a bet so Jordan just had to participate.

[Andrew]

Weirder still was Steve Smith doing quite poorly in the 2002 contest, despite coming into the Weekend leading the league in three point percentage (and being a solid shooter from outside for most of his career).

[shadowgrin]

^ Must be tired from all those parties before the event.

[Lamrock]

My predictions:

Rookie Challenge (I hate this event now): Team Hill - MVP: Lillard

Shooting Stars: Team Curry
Three Point Shootout: Damian Lillard
Skills Challenge: Damian Lillard
Dunk Contest: West / Lillard (fan vote)

All-Star Game: West / Lillard MVP

[SoF'nAwesome]

Damn, you rooting some heavy Lillard there.

Two things Lillard won't win even if he's at his best-- All-Star Game MVP & Dunk Contest. For the All-Star Game, I would go with PG24/KD.

[SoF'nAwesome]

Apart from Lillard for Skills, I don't think anybody predicted shit

[deihatein]

shadow was correct on the 3 point contest

[shadowgrin]

I was also right with Team Hill winning since Team Webber failed to play Olynyk at least 30 minutes.

[NovU]

BS you still failed to mention team hill in your prediction.

So everyone's 1 for 4?

[shadowgrin]

Go educate yourself about condition in logic especially with only 2 possible outcomes involved in the game.

2 out of 4. Suck it haters.

[NovU]

[Andrew]

I picked Team Hill and Lillard, so that's 2/4 for me as well.

[shadowgrin]

Good to have some company, kind of lonely looking down at the losers below.


I like the relay format of the skills challenge, should be like that every year. Great finish too.

I hate the money rack in the three-point contest, we don't need inflated scores.
Only Belinelli scored a legit 20 points when he did it in the tie-breaker round.

The East did it right on how to do 'team' dunks but that freestyle round should be scrapped if they are going to stick with dunk contest as a team competition, maybe make it a round where the team should do 2 dunks with all the players involved.
Still not a fan of that team format though, scrap it, it's no dunk wheel but it's still meh.
Fuck crap ass gimmick dunks with what McLemore and Harrison Barnes did.
McLemore's dunk wasn't bad but he should just have brought out that big ass chair have Shaq sit on it, dunk, over, none of that shite intros and post dunk acting.
I don't who sucked so bad, Harrison Barnes for doing that 2K gimmick or 2K for not thinking of a backup 2K dunk animation or two to play in case Barnes couldn't pull off his first option dunk.