NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge

The NBA Skills Challenge (officially named the Kia Skills Challenge) is a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annual All-Star Game as part of the All-Star Weekend.

Shortly after, the players must dribble back down the court and hit a three pointer from the top of the basketball key.

The champion was decided via a single elimination tournament format, with a guard and a frontcourt player guaranteed to face off in the final round.

Frontcourt players were first allowed and invited to participate in 2016, and the event has since crowned centers and forwards as winners, beginning with Karl-Anthony Towns that year[1] and followed by Kristaps Porziņģis in 2017, Bam Adebayo in 2020, and Domantas Sabonis in 2021.

The third round is a shooting challenge where players must make field goals from different spots, with the highest-scoring team earning 200 points.