Check Out The NBA All-Star Weekend's Slam Dunk Contest, Skills Challenge & 3-Point Shootout [Videos]

 

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Minnesota forward Kevin Love won the 3-point Shootout during the NBA’s All-Star Saturday festivities.

 

Love was consistent throughout, but had to survive a tiebreaker in the first round and sweat out the last few shots from Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant to pull out the 17-14 victory in the final.

 

Love tied for third in Round 1 with 18, along with Miami’s Mario Chalmers, but beat him 5-4 in a tiebreaker. Defending champion James Jones led all shooters in the opening round with 22 and Durant was next with 20.

 

Orlando’s Ryan Anderson just missed eliminating both Love and Chalmers, totaling 17 after missing his final 2-point money ball.

 

Love and Durant both had 16 in Round 2 to advance to the finals, with Jones posting 12.

 

●DUNK CONTEST: Utah’s Jeremy Evans won the Slam Dunk Contest at the NBA’s All-Star Saturday night festivities.

 

Evans, who got into the competition as a replacement for injured New York guard Iman Shumpert, earned 29 percent of 3 million text message votes cast by fans.

 

This was the first year that fans had total control of voting, a major tweak from past competitions.

 

Evans earned the win over Houston’s Chase Budinger, Indiana’s Paul George and Minnesota’s Derrick Williams.

 

Evans dunked with a camera on his head, dunked two basketballs while jumping over a seated assistant and then donned a Karl Malone jersey while dunking over mailman-dressed comedian Kevin Hart.

 

This year’s contest lasted three rounds, but the four participants had only two minutes per round to complete a single dunk.

 

●SKILLS CHALLENGE: San Antonio point guard Tony Parker won the Skills Competition of the NBA’s All-Star Saturday night festivities.

 

Parker was the only one ofsix participants to break 30 seconds in the first round (29.2) and this time of 32.8 in the final run on the obstacle course was better than Boston’s Rajon Rondo (34.6) and New Jersey’s Deron Williams (41.4).

 

Williams won the competition in 2008, which involves participants moving through a dribbling circuit, successfully throwing chest passes through a hanging tire and driving for a layup.

 

●SHOOTING STARS: Team New York had the touch from outside and won the Shooting Stars event to open the NBA’s All-Star Saturday night festivities.

 

Former Knicks star Allan Houston nailed his third attempt at a half-court shot to give his team consisting of current Knicks guard Landry Fields and Cappie Pondexter of the WNBA’s New York Liberty the victory.

 

The winner completed the shooting course in 37.3 seconds in the final round. It was better than the 47.6 posted by the Team Texas trio of former Houston Rockets star and TNT analyst Kenny Smith, current Rocket Chandler Parsons and Sophia Young of the San Antonio Silver Stars.

 

Team Orlando and Atlanta posted the slowest times of Round 1 and were eliminated.

 

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Comment by Kang on February 26, 2012 at 8:32pm
the dunk competition sucked lol vince carter , micheal jordan, and jason richardson the greatest dunkers of all time by farrr!!!! nobody can f*** wit dem three
Comment by marcus on February 26, 2012 at 5:19pm
kd wrote on twitter, time for lebron westbrook rose and wade to enter in the dunk contest. wade answered no but he wanted the other 3 in. hope next year we got some of them 3
Comment by NotoriousRambo on February 26, 2012 at 5:08pm
THIS YEAR JUST SUKED WHEN IT CAME TO THE SLAM DUNK COMPETITION VIRTUALLY NO CREATIVITY JUST MADE ME MORE DEPRESSED AFTER WATCHING J.COLE PLAY BALL THE OTHER NIGHT :)
Comment by T.T.S. on February 26, 2012 at 5:06pm
I have to be frank, I enjoyed watching the skills challenge more than the slam dunk competition. I think these so called 'superstars' who can dunk but never been to the dunk contest should STEP UP and make it worth watching for the FANS.
The real fans don't want the LeBron's and Wade's to help the fans by painting some building, I'm pretty sure they'd be more happy to watch them enter the dunk contest.
Comment by HotCarl on February 26, 2012 at 4:57pm
watch the n.iggers jump over eachother
Comment by Bad Habits on February 26, 2012 at 2:55pm
Dunk contest was weak as fuc k
Comment by Fo20 on February 26, 2012 at 2:54pm
WORST DUNK CONTEST OF ALL TIME!!!
Comment by Guel on February 26, 2012 at 12:50pm
My boy Kevin
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Comment by Takyla (Tiki) Robinson on February 26, 2012 at 10:46am
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