NBA All Stars
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The National Basketball Association All-Star Game is a basketball exhibition game hosted every February by the National Basketball Association and showcases 24 of the league’s star players. It is the featured event of NBA All-Star Weekend, a three-day event which goes from Friday to Sunday.
The actual All-Star Game has become just a fraction of the fun, with special events like the 3-Point Contest, Skills Challenge, Rising Stars, Celebrity Game and Slam Dunk Contest filling up the Friday and Saturday slate. We even have a special NBA/WNBA crossover shooting showdown between Steph Curry and Sabrina Ionescu that has been the talk of the hoops world for weeks.
East vs West, 1.00am GMT
Picks:
West ML @5/7
Over 365.0 @10/11
Ultimately, we’re banking on Scottie Barnes, Tyrese Maxey and Trae Young’s “Team All-Stars” emerging victorious over “Team Top Picks” (Anthony Edwards, Victor Wembanyama, and Paolo Banchero) and “Team Pacers (Tyrese Haliburton, Bennedict Mathurin and Myles Turner).
Our central reasoning: Team All-Stars is the fastest of the three and it can be argued that Young and Maxey are two of the three best shooters in this contest. They don’t have a center to potentially slow them down with dribbling or passing (although Wemby and Turner are far from traditional bigs).
Prop Picks:
NBA Slam Dunk Contest Prediction
Best bet: Jaylen Brown first round score OVER 94.5 @10/11
You can’t bet on a winner of the Dunk Contest, but you can bet on:
(a) which player will get the highest Round 1 score and
(b) the over/under for each contestant in Round 1
That’s fine, as we like Brown to start strong but we’re not so sure he has enough in his bag to pull off a victory over reigning champion Mac McClung or young stud Jacob Toppin (brother of Obi). The fourth competitor, the Heat’s Jaime Jaquez, seems like a long shot.
NBA 3-Point Contest Prediction
Best Bet: Tyrese Haliburton @9/4
Haliburton dropped an incredible 31 points in the first round of last year’s Starry 3-Point Contest and he would have had 33 if not for the first ball from his money rack rolling in and out.
The second-time All-Star has a quick release, tremendous accuracy, backspin and fantastic range. He had no problem at all hitting both Starry balls from 27 feet last year and the only thing keeping him from his first 3-Point Contest trophy was Lillard going off in the final round. This time, in front of his Pacers fans, we have the young star taking it down.
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