As one of the highlights of the All-Star event, the three-point contest has always attracted the attention of fans. In the just-concluded Cleveland All-Star Three-Point Game, Center Towns from the Minnesota Timberwolves took the crown.
Before the game, the bookmaker released the three-point contest championship odds, with the Clippers leading kennault and Downes bottoming out. It's not surprising that Kennard, Bain, Trae Young, CJ McCollum, Mills, VanVleet, LaVine are all defenders, and Towns is the only inside player. Moreover, combined with the three-point shooting rate of the 8-man season, Towns is also ranked low.
However, the three-point contest was fraught with uncertainty, and despite being looked down upon, Downs was very solid. In the first round, Downs was the sixth to play, he set the ball point at the top of the arc, although he lost two over the distance, but still scored 22 points to successfully reach the final.
In the final, Towns took the lead and felt explosive, hitting 9 of the first ten goals and scoring a total of 29 points. Unfortunately, the last basket only hit 2 goals, which did not break Curry's All-Star single-round record (31 points in the preliminaries). Mills and Kennault, who played later, each scored 26 points and failed to defend the honor of a player in the backcourt.
In an interview, Towns admitted that he would turn around and leave at the top, and it was certainly impossible to win the dunk contest championship anyway, and he would no longer participate in the All-Star event in the future. It is worth mentioning that Towns won the Skill Challenge championship in the 15-16 season, just one dunk title away from the All-Star Singles Grand Slam.