Who won the NBA All-Star Skills Challenge? Final scores, results, highlights from 2023 All-Star Weekend
The NBA All-Star Saturday Night celebrations kicked off with the Skills Challenge, marking the second year of its new, team-based format.
This year, the three teams that took the floor in Salt Lake City were Team Antetokounmpos, Team Jazz and Team Rooks.
At last year’s Skills Challenge iteration, the Cavaliers clinched victory on their home ground. Team Jazz stuck to tradition and clinched the title thanks to the trio of Jordan Clarkson, Walker Kessler and Collin Sexton.
The Sporting News followed 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
(All times Eastern.)
| team | player | challenge points |
| Team Antetokounmpos | Alex and Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Jrue Holiday* | 0 |
| team jazz | Jordan Clarkson, Walker Kessler, Collin Sexton | 300 |
| Team Rooks | Paolo Banchero, Jaden Ivey, Jabari Smith Jr. | 100 |
20:49 — The home team wins!
Team Jazz finishes the team shooter competition with 13 points to bring their challenge points to a total of 300 and claim victory.
20:38 — With a score of 88, Team Jazz wins Round 2, easily beating out Team Antetokounmpos who finished with 84 points.
The next competition is Team Shooting, which is worth 200 points.
20:28 — Team Rooks wins Round 1 with a time of 1:14 and earns 100 Challenge Points.
Team Passing is the next competition.
20:25 — Team Rooks set a new batting time, beating Team Antetokounmpos by nine seconds.
Team Jazz will now try to outdo them.
20:23 — First up: Team Antetokounmpos (and Jrue Holiday) going into the race with a time of 1:23 in the Team Relay pending review of a possible violation.
Team Rooks is next in line.
20:15 — Jrue Holiday will serve as an honorary antetokounmpo and an injury substitute for his Bucks teammate Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is suffering from a sprained wrist.
20:12 — Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors made their way to the stage to get the night’s events going. All-Star Saturday Night is underway and the Skills Challenge is set to begin soon.
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.
- Round 3 – Team Shooting
All players of each team participate with a ball. Each team has 60 seconds to earn points while shooting from five different points on the ground, but each team must attempt their first shot from point 5 and each player must attempt at least one shot.
Here are the shots and what they’re worth:
- Point 1: 10-foot shot from the right side off lane (1 point)
- Point 2: Left elbow extended (2 points).
- Point 3: Upper point of the key 3 pointer (3 points).
- Point 4: Left corner 3-pointer (4 points).
- Point 5: Right slot 30 feet deep 3 pointers (5 points).
The team with the highest score wins round 3 and gets 200 challenge points.
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