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NBA All-Star Skills Challenge Results, Highlights: Evan Mobley Rises and Gives Team Cavs the Victory

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NBA All-Star Saturday Night kicked off with the Skills Challenge, which was reformatted in 2022.

On their home floor, Team Cavs took the credit by beating Team Rooks in the half-court shootout, thanks to Evan Mobley, who drained the winning bucket.

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NBA All-Star Skills Challenge Live Updates, Highlights, Results

Team players Challenge Points Half-court Shot time
Team towers Josh Giddey, Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes 200 9.9 seconds
Team Cavs Darius Garland, Jarrett Allen, Evan Mobley 100 5.5 seconds
Team Antetokounmpos Giannis, Thanasis and Alex Antetokounmpo 100 Didn’t qualify

8:53 PM – EVAN MOBLEY FOR THE WIN! With their second shot, Mobley buries the shot halfway to give the home city team the win.

8:52 PM – Cade Cunningham gets the half-court shot to go ahead of Team Rooks to give them a time of 9.9 seconds.

8:46 PM – Darius Garland sends team Cavs to the final and wins the tiebreak.

8:44 PM – We have a tiebreak between team Antetokounmpos and team Cavs for a place in the final!

8:40 PM – And just like that, Team Rooks takes the lead and advances to the final after winning the relay!

8:37 PM – Then it’s the relay with 200 points up for grabs!

8:33 PM – We have a tie-breaker and it goes to the Antetokounmpos who come on the board with 100 challenge points.

8:32 p.m. – Team Cavs falls short by 70 points in the passing challenge.

8:31 PM – Team Antetokounmpos reacts with 88 to equalize with Team Rooks

20:29 – The Rooks combine for a score of 88!

8:27 PM – Then it’s the passing challenge!

8:20 PM – Evan Mobley (18) and Darius Garland (21) had the hot hand for Team Cavs, while Jarrett Allen took in 5, as they finished with a score of 44 to take 100 Challenge points.

8:17 PM – Giannis started off warmly tapping the five-point shot and finished with 8 points. Alex comes next with 8, followed by Thanasis (4) for a combined score of 20.

20:12 – Team Rooks gets us going Giddey (16), Cunningham (10) and Barnes (6) combine for 32 points.

What time does the NBA All-Star Skills Challenge start?

  • Date: Saturday 19 February
  • Time: 8pm ET | 5:00 p.m. ET

The NBA All-Star Skills Challenge is the first event on All-Star Saturday Night. The Skills Challenge, which begins shortly after 8 p.m. ET, will be followed by the 3-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest.

What channel is the NBA All-Star Skills Challenge on?

Region Channel
United States TNT
Canada TSN 4/5

The 2022 NBA All-Star Game will be broadcast live on TNT, along with the Rising Stars game, the Skills Challenge, the 3-Point Contest, and the Slam Dunk Contest. You can stream all of NBA’s All-Star weekend events on TNTdrama.com or with Sling TV, which offers a three-day free trial.

Viewers in Canada can watch the NBA All-Star Game on Sportsnet. The Rising Stars game, Skills Challenge, 3-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest will be broadcast on TSN.

NBA All-Star Skills Challenge Format

Under the new format, the teams will compete in a four-round competition.

Round 1: Team Shooting (three teams)

All players from each team will compete individually with two teammates bouncing back. Each player has 30 seconds to shoot from five different spots ranging from 10 to 30 feet from the edge and players cannot repeat the same shot in succession. Shots from anywhere 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 team score wins round 1 and earns 100 challenge points.

Round 2: Team passing (three teams)

All players of a team will participate together. Each team has 30 seconds to complete passes in three oversized moving targets, which vary in size and distance from the players. Each team must make at least one pass attempt on each goal and individual players cannot make consecutive passes on the same goal. Completed passes to each target have different values ​​(two points, four points, or six points).

The team with the most points wins Team Passing and earns 100 Challenge Points.

Round 3: Team relay (three teams)

All players from each team will participate in a timed relay. Each player must complete the course, which consists of these five skills, in the following order:

  1. Throw an exhaust pass into a moving target from the baseline; 2.)
  2. Dribble across the field through three moving pylons
  3. Take a short recording in the track
  4. Make a three-pointer from the corner against an automated defender
  5. Dribble to the opposite target and make a basket (such as a dunk, layup, or jump shot).

The team with the fastest time wins round 3 and earns 200 challenge points.

Final round: Half-court shot (two teams)

The two teams advancing to the final round will compete one at a time and all players from each team will participate in an attempt to complete a half-court shot. Team 1 sets the time to beat on a shot made or when the clock expires (maximum 1 minute 30 seconds).

The team that completes a half-court shot in the fastest time wins the Skills Challenge. In the event of a tie, the two teams repeat the final round.

NBA All-Star Weekend Schedule 2022

  • Friday February 18: NBA All-Star Celebrity Game – 7pm ET
  • Friday February 18: Rising Stars Game – 9pm ET
  • Saturday 19 February: All-Star Saturday Night – 8pm ET
    Skills Challenge (first event)
    3-point match (second event)
    Slam Dunk Match (Third Event)
  • Sunday 20 February: NBA All-Star Game – 8pm ET