NBA All-Star Skills Challenge: Live scores, results, highlights from 2023 All-Star Weekend
The NBA All-Star Saturday Night celebrations kick off with the Skills Challenge, the second year of its new, team-based format.
This year, the three teams taking the floor in Salt Lake City are Team Antetokounmpos, Team Jazz, and Team Rooks.
At last year’s Skills Challenge iteration, the Cavaliers clinched victory on their home ground. Can Team Jazz do the same this year? Or will one of the other teams leave Utah with the title?
The Sporting News will follow live scores, results and highlights from the first event of All-Star Saturday Night.
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NBA All-Star Skills Challenge: Live Scores, Scores, Highlights from All-Star Weekend 2023
| team | player | challenge points | Shot time at half time |
| Team Antetokounmpos | Alex and Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Jrue Holiday* | ||
| team jazz | Jordan Clarkson, Walker Kessler, Collin Sexton | ||
| Team Rooks | Paolo Banchero, Jaden Ivey, Jabari Smith Jr. |
* Injury replacement for Giannis Antetokounmpo
When does the NBA All-Star Skills Challenge start?
- Date: Saturday February 18th
- Time: 8 p.m. ET | 5 p.m. PT
The NBA All-Star Skills Challenge is the first event of All-Star Saturday Night at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City. The Skills Challenge, which begins just after 8 p.m. ET, precedes the 3-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest.
NBA All-Star Skills Challenge format
In its second year, the Skills Challenge will consist of three teams of three players competing in a four-round competition. The two teams with the most points in the first three rounds advance to the final.
Here is a breakdown of each round:
All players on each team participate in a timed relay where they have to complete a course. Each player has 30 seconds to shoot from five different points between 10 and 30 feet from the edge, and players cannot repeat the same shot back-to-back.
Shots from each spot have different values ranging from one to five points. Individual player scores are added together to determine the team score.
The team with the highest score wins round 1 and gets 100 challenge points.
Teams compete individually, with each team having 30 seconds to earn points. All players participate together in a passing competition in which they complete passes to three oversized moving targets that vary in size and distance from the players.
Each team must make at least one pass attempt to each target, and individual players cannot pass to the same target in a row. Completed passes to each goal are worth two, four, or six points.
The team with the highest score wins round 2 and gets 100 challenge points.
All players on each team participate in a timed relay in which each player must complete the course consisting of these five skills in this order:
- Throw an exit pass from the baseline at a moving target
- Dribble across the court through three moving pylons
- Take a quick shot down the lane
- Make a 3-pointer from the corner against an automated defender
- Dribble on the opponent’s goal and make a basket
The team with the fastest time wins round 3 and gets 200 challenge points.
- Round 4 – Half Field Shot
The two teams with the highest scores from rounds 1 to 3 advance to the final round. These teams compete individually, and all players on each team attempt to take a half field shot.
Team 1 sets the time to hit with a shot made or a countdown of the clock (maximum 90 seconds).
The team that makes a half-court shot the fastest wins the Skills Challenge. In the event of a tie, the teams repeat the final round.
NBA All-Star Schedule 2023
Here is the schedule of events for the NBA All-Star Weekend, taking place February 17-19:
Friday February 17th
- 7 p.m. ET – NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
- 9 p.m. ET – Jordan Rising Stars Game
Saturday February 18th
- 1 p.m. ET – NBA All-Star Practice
- 4 p.m. ET – NBA x HBCU Classic
- 8 p.m. ET – All-Star Saturday Night
- Skills Challenge
- 3-point competition
- Slam Dunk Contest
Sunday February 19th
- 3:00 p.m. ET – Next NBA G League game
- 7:30 p.m. ET – NBA All-Star Draft
- 8 p.m. ET – NBA All-Star Game