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2024 NBA All-Star Game Skills Competition Odds & Picks

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NBA All-Star Weekend will get started with the Skills Challenge on Saturday, February 17.

There will be three teams of three for the Skills Challenge.

Team Pacers, Team Top Picks, and Team All-Stars.

Team Pacers is made up of Tyrese Haliburton, Bennedict Mathurin, and Myles Turner. They’ve got one of the three teams because the game is being held in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indiana.

Meanwhile, Team Top Picks will feature bigs Paolo Banchero, Victor Wembanyama, and Anthony Edwards.

Finally, Team All-Stars include Scottie Barnes, Tyrese Maxey, and Trae Young.

There are three rounds of competition. All three teams have the relay, passing, and shooting rounds. After the three rounds, the team with the most challenge points will win the Skills Challenge.

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Team All-Stars

Shockingly, Team All-Stars is second on the odds list. Team Top Picks is first, and Team Pacers is last in the implied odds. While there’s probably more talent on the Team Top Picks, I’m unsure of their ability to pass effectively and don’t know about the consistency they’ll have with shooting the ball.

In the first challenge, we’ll get the relay. This is where each team participates in a timed relay where you have outlet passes, dribbling, short shots, three-point shots, and dunks. Team All-Stars has the most speed, with Trae Young and Tyrese Maxey running the show. Scottie Barnes is also very versatile as a player in general.

The Pacers have Myles Turner, and the Top Picks have only forwards/centers. I’m not picking on Banchero, Edwards, and Wembanyama. They’re all terrific passers and ultimate playmakers. But can they keep up with Team All-Stars? I don’t think so.

After Round 1, I have Team All-Stars leading with 100 points.

In Round 2, it’s the passing portion. Each team has 30 seconds to add points and must make one pass attempt at each target on the court. Again, the team with the most points in passing will earn 100 challenge points. The team with multiple point guards and the most speed also seems to have the advantage in Round 2.

In Round 3, it’s the shooting challenge. The winner of the shooting challenge will get 200 points. Shots made from different locations have different values. The 30-foot three-pointer is worth five points, other three-pointers are 3 or 4 points, and shots inside the arc are 1 or 2 points, depending on where you shoot.

Again, Team All-Stars has multiple guards who can shoot it from the logo and a versatile forward in Barnes who can make any of the shots from 1, 2, 3, or 4 points out.

Therefore, I think we’re getting value at +175 with Team All-Stars. They’ve got the most balanced and fastest team of the three. That should be enough.

Bet: Team All-Stars (+175)

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