Nba Slam Dunk Contest Where To Watch

[Karriem Drewery]

The highly anticipated Slam Dunk contest is the pinnacle of Saturday's All-Star lineup, following the skills challenge and 3-point contests. But the slam dunk contest, which has featured previous winners like Michael Jordan (1987-88), Kobe Bryant (1997) and Vince Carter (2000), has fallen flat in recent years.

The star power, however, is back. Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown is set to participate in the event, marking the first time an All-Star has participated in the dunk contest since Victor Oladipo in 2018.

The 2024 NBA All-Star dunk contest will be held on Saturday, Feb. 17 in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL's Indianapolis Colts. (A state-of-the-art LED basketball court will be erected in the football stadium.) The slam dunk contest will directly follow the skills challenge, 3-point contest and the inaugural Steph Curry vs. Sabrina Ionescu 3-point challenge.

McClung put on a clinic last year, stringing together four dunks that blew both the judges and spectators away. He set the tone with his first dunk of the night, where he leaped over two people, grabbed the ball out of the hands of the person sitting on another person's shoulders and touched the ball off the backboard before dunking it.

There are two rounds. In the first, each contestant will get 1:30 and three attempts to complete a dunk. An official on hand will judge whether a dunk is completed or missed and any props the players use must be approved beforehand by NBA Basketball Operations. In the first round, each contestant will have the chance to complete two dunks. Completed dunks will be given a score between 40 and 50 points. The average of the five judges will be the final score for that dunk. The two dunkers with the highest composite score from the first round will advance to the final round. If there is a tie after the first round, the judges will then vote to pick the advancing dunker.

In the final round, the dunker with the lowest score from the first round will go first. The same scoring rules as above apply, and the contestant with the higher score will be the champion. In the case of a tie, there will be a one dunk dunk-off. If there is a tie following the dunk-off, then the judges will vote to break the tie as in the tiebreaking scenario from the first round.

Mac McClung, who plays for the Osceola Magic of the NBA G League, capped the evening by defending his slam dunk contest title. McClung defeated the Boston Celtics' Jaylen Brown in the championship round, using Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal as a prop for his final dunk, which drew consensus scores of 50s from the judges.

Mac McClung, who has been a slam dunk viral sensation for nearly a decade starting in high school, etched his name in NBA All-Star Weekend history book with his second consecutive slam dunk contest title.

"I'm trying to sit with it right now and take a second and understand what's going on," McClung said. "I feel like life is so fast sometimes, it's just I'll look back in 20 years when I can't jump anymore and not as quick. But I know I'm a lucky dude.

In their first dunks of the final round, McClung jumped over two people for a one-handed dunk, and Brown did a 360 windmill dunk wearing a No. 5 Brewster jersey, honoring his friend Terrence Clarke who died in car accident in 2021 two months before the NBA draft.

Clarke, a Boston Native, played basketball at Kentucky for one season, where he averaged 9.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and two assists in eight games. He declared for the 2021 NBA draft, but Clarke tragically died in a car accident on April 22 in Los Angeles months before the draft. He was 19.

"Being able to have this crossover and understanding the respect I've been able to receive from a lot of the NBA guys, just knowing that Steph wanted to do this as well, in terms of just respecting another shooter," Ionescu said. "It's going to show a lot of young kids out there, a lot of people who might have not believed or even watched women's sports that we're able to go out there and put on a show. So it was really exciting to finally be able to do this. Like Steph said, it happened perfectly."

Ionescu is the reigning WNBA All-Star 3-point champion after she was nearly perfect, knocking down 25 of 27 three-point shots during her final run to set an all-time record for either the NBA or WNBA.

Curry has a couple 3-point contest wins under his belt, hoisting the trophy in 2021 and 2015. (In fact, Curry is the only player to win the skills challenge, 3-point contest and All-Star Game MVP in their career.)

Curry added: "The media has changed the conversation for little boys and girls watching us play. It doesn't matter what gym you show up to, don't discount who's to your left and to your right. If they can shoot, they can shoot. We can compete and have fun. Hopefully we can be models of what that looks like on the biggest stage."

Sabrina Ionescu had the option of shooting from either the WNBA three-point line (22 feet and 1.75 inches) or NBA three-point line (23 feet and nine inches), but opted for the NBA arc. However, she will still use a WNBA ball.

"When I got to the final rack, I didn't know my exact score, but when I missed a couple, I heard the crowd just oohing and aahing. Once they kept doing it over and over, I knew I was still alive because I knew they would have stopped if it had been over for me," Lillard said. "The next two balls, I missed again, and then I grabbed the next one and I knew I needed that to win."

Lillard said going last in each round helped him. "It's an advantage because you can see a target, know what you've got to get to," he said. "You're not shooting just aimlessly where someone can come behind me and beat this score. You either have a chance to beat it or you're going to fall short.

"That's the only advantage that it is, is just knowing. You can still go out there and miss. I like that advantage because I can see it. As a shooter, you have to tighten up and be sharp and try to hunt somebody down if it comes down to it. So I think it helped me for sure."

Is there a such thing as home-court advantage? It appears so. For the third consecutive time, the home team has won the NBA All-Star skills challenge. Team Pacers, composed of Tyrese Haliburton, Bennedict Mathurin and Myles Turner, took home the trophy in front of the crowd at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Saturday evening.

Team All-Star evened things up with Team Pacers by winning the shooting challenge, where each team had 60-seconds to make as many shots from certain locations on the floor, including a five-point shot from half-court and a four-pointer beyond the arc.

He's truly been a game-changing owner in this league, and he's had great success, obviously, with a championship but also competitive teams most of the time during his tenure. And he's been a very active participant in league matters, whether it's been our media committee or Board of Governors meetings. He's never hesitated to speak his mind.

Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry and New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu will compete head-to-head in the first NBA vs. WNBA 3-point challenge. This event will take place after the traditional 3-point contest and before the slam dunk contest.

Curry will shoot from the NBA 3-point line and use NBA basketballs, and Ionescu has the option to shoot from the WNBA 3-point line but she said she plans to shoot from the NBA line. She will use WNBA basketballs. Each made shot will result in a donation from State Farm to the NBA Foundation to support economic empowerment in the Black community.

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It's NBA All-Star Weekend, and basketball fans are gearing up for one of the biggest parties in sports. The three-day event is filled with skills challenges, games and contests, including the always-popular dunk contest. It all leads up to the 2024 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday with captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

In short, you're in for three days of fantastic basketball. From Friday's NBA All-Star Celebrity Game to the Steph Curry vs. Sabrina Ionescu 3-point contest on Saturday, you won't want to miss a single event of the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend.

Part of the NBA All-Star Saturday Night, the 2024 Starry 3-Point Contest will take place on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. The second event of the night following the skills challenge, the three-point contest is always filled with highlight reel-worthy moments and dazzling three-point shots.

The 2024 All-Star dunk contest will be the fourth event on Saturday, Feb. 17. Part of the NBA's All-Star Saturday Night, the slam-dunk contest is scheduled to be the last event of the night following the skills challenge, 3-point contest and the Stephen Curry vs. Sabrina Ionescu 3-point challenge.

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