Portland guard Damian Lillard, who has not played a single game in the NBA this season, won the All-Star weekend in three-point shooting in Los Angeles.
While recovering from an Achilles tendon injury, Lillard was apparently practicing his shooting, and with three titles, he tied Larry Bird and Craig Hodges on the all-time list.
The atmosphere was spectacular, Lillard scored 29 points in the final, ahead of Devin Booker with 27. Booker had four balls and enough time to win the title, of the last three balls he needed one from his favorite position to take the competition to a new series, but he missed all of them. The third was Kon Knuppel.
Booker was not disappointed in losing the trophy due to a series of misses from his favorite position.
"That's how it is, sometimes the ball just won't go through the hoop."
The three of them won the final series with excellent shooting - Booker 30 points, Knupel and Lillard 27 each.
The following players were left out of the finals: Donovan Mitchell (Cleveland, 24), Norman Powell (Miami, 23), Jamal Murray (Denver, 18), Tyrese Maxey (Philadelphia, 17) and Bobby Portis (Milwaukee, 15).
Miami's Keshad Johnson won the dunk, although during the competition only San Antonio rookie Carter Bryant received the maximum 50 points from the judges.
The skills competition is no more, replaced by a competition called "Shooting Stars," which ran from 2004 to 2015, and Chris Bosh's three consecutive victories spelled its end.
In a repeat of that type of competition, the new champion is the New York team. It included Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and the famous Alan Houston. The coach was Rick Brunson, a member of the New York Knicks coaching staff and Jalen's father.
In the finals, they won with 47 points, ahead of Duke with 38, and that team included Corey Mageety, former ace of the Los Angeles Clippers, Jaylen Johnson from Atlanta and Con Knuppel from Charlotte.
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