News from February 25.

All-Star Saturday Night results

Shooting Stars  (must make shot from 6 spots on court in shortest time)
  1st round (top 2 advance)
    New York (Landry Fields, Allan Houston, Cappie Pondexter)     0:38.7
    Texas (Chandler Parsons, Kenny Smith, Sophia Young)           0:42.7
    Atlanta (Jerry Stackhouse, Steve Smith, Lindsey Harding)      0:55.3
    Orlando (Jameer Nelson, Dennis Scott, Marie Ferdinand-Harris) 1:04

  Finals
    NY  0:37.3
    TX  0:47.6


Skills Competition (obstacle course dribbling, shooting, passing; timed
event)
  1st round (top 3 advance)
    Deron Williams (NJ)     28.3 seconds
    Tony Parker (SA)        29.2 seconds
    Rajon Rondo (Bos)       32.8 seconds
    John Wall (Was)         32.8 seconds
    Russell Westbrook (OKC) 33.8 seconds
    Kyrie Irving (Cle)      42.2 seconds

  Tiebreaker:
    Rajon Rondo (Bos)       27.5 seconds
    John Wall (Was)         45.4 seconds

  Finals
    Tony Parker (SA)        32.8 seconds
    Rajon Rondo (Bos)       34.6 seconds
    Deron Williams (NJ)     41.4 seconds


3-point Shootout (5 racks of 5 balls - 4 worth 1 point, 1 worth 2 points)
  1st Round  (top 3 advance)
    James Jones (Mia)          22
    Kevin Durant (OKC)         20
    Kevin Love (Min)           18
    Mario Chalmers (Mia)       18
    Ryan Anderson (Orl)        17
    Anthony Morrow (NJ)        14

  Tiebreaker (24 seconds)
    Kevin Love (Min)            5
    Mario Chalmers (Mia)        4

  Finals
    Kevin Durant (OKC)         16
    Kevin Love (Min)           16
    James Jones (Mia)          12

  Tiebreaker (60 seconds)
    Kevin Love (Min)           17
    Kevin Durant (OKC)         14


Slam Dunk Contest (1 round, 3 dunks each, fan voting)
[you try until you make one for 2 minutes]
  1st dunk
    Chase Budinger (Hou) - lob by PDiddy, jump over PDiddy and slam
    Jeremy Evans (Uta) - bounce lob over-head jam
    Paul George (Ind) - jump over 7-2 Roy Hibbert and Dahntey Jones
    Derrick Williams (Min) - windmill dunk over motorcycle

  2nd dunk
    Budinger - simple windmill dunk
    Evans - sitting Gordon Hayward tossed 2 balls, jump over Hayward
      and dunked both balls (by far the most impressive dunk of contest)
    George - glow-in-the-dark, spin windmill dunk
    Williams - Ricky Rubio pass ball off side of backboard, spin dunk

  3rd dunk
    Budinger - blindfolded, reverse dunk (pseudo-Cedric Ceballos repeat)
    Evans - jump over small guy, hand-behind-head dunk (imitation of
      Karl Malone dunk)
    George - sticker on backboard, reverse power slam (took a number of
      tries)
    Williams - after 9 misses (of what would have been an impressive
      dunk), simple lob dunk

  Winner with 29% of fan voting: Jeremy Evans (Uta)
    Chase Budinger (Hou) was 2nd with 28% of the voting
  [rest of voting breakdown not released]


Schedule for Sunday, February 26  (All times Central)
  All-Star Sunday
    Legends Brunch                11:00 am  NBATV
    All-Star Game                  6:30 pm  TNT

Schedule for Monday, February 27  (All times Central)
  No games scheduled


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