Read the All-Star Game in one article: McClung wins back-to-back dunk championship Curry beats Ionescu by 29 points

On February 18, Beijing time, the NBA 24 All-Star Weekend ushered in the second event day in Indiana, and individual events such as the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest officially began. The host Pacers won the skills championship, Lillard beat Trae Young to win the three-point game, the NBA and WNBA crossover three-point matchup Curry defeated Ionescu by 29 points, and McClung won the slam dunk contest for a second time.

Skills Challenge

The Skills Challenge follows the rules of the team competition (3 teams in a team, 3 teams in total), with the host team (Haliburton, Turner, Mathurin), the top team (Edwards, Banchero, Wembanyama) and the All-Star team (Trae Young, Maxey, Scottie Barnes).

The competition is divided into three rounds, the first round is a team relay (100 points), the second round is a team pass (100 points), and the third round is a team pass (200 points). If a team is tied at the end of the first three rounds, a mid-circle shooting play-off will be played, and the team with less time in the mid-circle will win outright.

At the start of the first round of the relay, the All-Stars took the lead, and they finished in 1:18. Next up was the top team, Edwards made good on his promise to shoot with his left hand, but they made a lot of mistakes and couldn't finish the game within the allotted time. The hosts, who played in the finale, ended the round with a self-throwing and self-dunking from Haliburton, who took 11 seconds less than the All-Star team and scored 100 points first.

The All-Stars continued to take the lead at the start of the second-round passing game, scoring a total of 74 points, including 36 points for Trae Young, 26 points for Maxey and 12 points for Barnes. The next champion team scored a total of 58 points, including 26 points for Banchero, 18 points for Wembanyama, and 14 points for Edwards. The last host team scored 74 points, including 42 points from Haliburton, 10 points from Mathurin and 10 points from Turner.

With the All-Star team and the host team scoring 74 points at the same time, the two sides went into the play-off period. In the playoffs, the host team beat the All-Star team by 90 points with 92 points, so the host team went on to score 100 points.

At the start of the third round of the shooting competition, the All-Stars scored a total of 33 points, including 13 points for Barnes, 12 points for Maxey, and 8 points for Trae Young. On the top side, they scored 19 points to miss out on the title, including 11 points from Edwards and four points each from Wembanyama and Banchero. The last All-Star team to score only 11 points in total, so the All-Star team will receive 200 points for a win, and the All-Star team and the host team will be tied on points, and the two sides will enter the play-off stage.

In the overtime, the All-Stars obviously had too much physical exertion and a very poor performance in the middle circle, and in the end they relied on Maxey to hit a three-pointer in the center circle in 58.8 seconds. The hosts relied on Haliburton's mid-circle three-point shot to take 20.5 seconds less than the All-Star team, and the hosts won the Skill Challenge.

Three-point contest

There are eight players participating in this three-point shootout, namely Trae Young and defending champion Lillard. There are 7 shooting points in the game, namely the bottom corner on both sides, the 45-degree angle on both sides, the top of the arc and two ultra-long three-point points, each player shoots 32 balls within the specified time of 1 minute and 10 seconds, one of which is a self-set flower ball point, and the player with the highest score of three points in the first round enters the final.

Trae Young was the first to play, who set the penalty at the end, and despite his poor start, he quickly adjusted to form and eventually scored a decent 26 points.

The second to play was Mitchell, who set the ball point at a 45-degree angle on the left side, and he ended up scoring 21 points. It is worth mentioning that he wore the jersey of his teammate Merrill, who is the most accurate three-point player on the Cavaliers' lineup, but he did not bring Mitchell luck.

The third player was Haliburton, who scored 26 points on a 4-of-5 shooting from the field, tied for first place with Trae Young.

The fourth player to appear was Beasley, who had the highest three-point shooting percentage in the tournament, and he did not perform well in the early stage, eventually scoring only 20 points and becoming the first player to go out.

The fifth player was Downs, who was consistent at the top of the arc and went from strength to strength, scoring 26 points, the same as Trae Young and Haliburton.

Brunson, who played sixth from the field, excelled on the first six shooting spots, but ultimately hit just two shots from the chain to finish with 24 points and be eliminated from the tournament.

Markkanen, who came out in seventh place, was also 2-of-5 from the field of his flower, and although he hit 100 shots from the final shooting point, he conceded too many balls in the early stages and ended up missing out on the final with only 25 points.

The last player to come out was Lillard, who finished with 100 shots at the top of the arc and was very consistent overall, and finally scored 26 points as well.

Since the first round of the four players had the same record, it entered the play-off. In the playoffs, each player scored as many points as possible at 7 shooting points in 30 seconds, with the three players with the highest scores advancing to the final. In the end, Lillard and Towns scored 16 points, Trae Young scored 15 points, and Haliburton scored 12 points, and Haliburton was unfortunately out.

In the final, Downs took the lead in the draw, and he scored a good 24 points, but the final score was revised to 22 points due to stepping on the line. Trae Young then scored 24 points, putting Lillard under a lot of pressure. Lillard, who was the last to play, once again showed his big heart, scoring 24 points from the first six shooting points to ensure that he was at least equal to Trae Young. At the final shooting point, Lillard unexpectedly lost all four of his first four shots, putting the suspense in the final moment. He hit the last flower ball to win the championship.

Lillard defeated Trae Young to win the three-point contest, becoming the eighth player in history to win the tournament multiple times, and the first player to win the tournament in consecutive terms since Capono in '07 and '08.

Curry vs Ionescu

For the first time, the NBA and the WNBA will face off against each other, with NBA three-point champion Curry and WNBA three-point champion Ionescu going head-to-head.

Ionescu was the first to play, hitting 100 shots from the opening point and 4-of-5 from the left 45 and three points at the top of the arc. Unfortunately, Ionescu missed two long-range three-pointers and missed the next two shooting points to score 26 points. Considering that she chose to face the NBA's three-point line head-on, and tied her best score in the last round of the three-point contest, she has achieved a pretty remarkable result!

Curry followed up on the court, even though he also missed two ultra-long three-pointers, but Curry completed a hundred shots at a 45-degree angle on both sides, and made 4 of 5 in the final flower point, and finally scored 29 points worthy of the NBA three-point title, winning this cross-border matchup. After the match, he lifted his commemorative victory belt and posed for a photo with Ionescu.

Slam Dunk Contest

The tournament features defending champion McClung and Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown, dunk king Otto Toppin's younger brother Jacob Topping and Heat rookie Harkes.

The first to play was Harkes, who invited Heat legend O'Neal to cooperate. Hacks jumped over O'Neal for a dunk and scored 47.4 points.

The second to appear was Jacob Toppin, who enlisted the help of his slam dunk king brother Otto Toppin. Topping Jr. jumped over Topping to catch the ball and complete a back dunk, and he ended up scoring 47.8 points.

Third in the field was Jaylen Brown, who scored 48.8 points for a high-arm windmill dunk. However, the fans at the scene booed and seemed not satisfied with the score.

Fourth in the field was defending champion McClung McClung in action. He showed off his amazing stagnation with a creative back-to-back dunk from the ball. However, due to the failure of his first attempt, he only succeeded in the second finish, which affected the scoring standard in the judges' minds, and finally only scored 48 points.

Harks' second dunk completes a self-tossing and spinning dunk. However, this dunk was the second attempt, and it lacked creativity, and in the end it only scored 46.8 points, and the two dunks combined for 94.2 points.

Xiao Topping's second dunk completed a difficult air twist crotch with both hands violently dunked, and the referee seemed to be quite demanding, only giving 47.2 points, with a total of 97 points in the two rounds.

McClung scored 49.4 points on his second dunk, and he scored 49.4 points, totaling 97.4 points in the two rounds to advance to the finals.

Jaylen Brown's second dunk, he and his All-Star teammate Tatum completed a back dunk, trying to complete a Flyer blindfolded catch dunk, but he made a mistake in the blindfold process, and finally scored 47.6 points, a total of 96.4 points in two rounds, and McClung will meet in the finals.

In the first round of the finals, Jaylen Brown completed a 360-degree one-arm dunk in the air and scored 48.6 points on the second attempt, which caused dissatisfaction among the fans at the scene and boos again.

McClung scored 48.8 points on his first dunk of the finals, as he leaped over a two-man wall to complete a one-arm dunk.

Jaylen Brown's second dunk in the final, he put on a big glove and completed the cooperation with Mitchell, and finally scored 49.2 points, and the fans at the scene were still dissatisfied with the result, and once again booed.

McClung made the second dunk of the final, and he asked O'Neal to help him change into his jersey. McClung leaped over O'Neal and used himself to complete the two-handed back buckle, which was unanimously affirmed by the five judges and won a perfect score.

In the end, McClung won the feat of the slam dunk contest with the only 50-point dunk of the tournament, and he was the first player since LaVine to do so.