There is no professional sports All Star event that can touch the fun and entertainment that the NBA packs into one night. There is also no one that does a better job of covering all the All Star fun than the gang at TNT.
This is one of the networks best produced and most entertaining nights of just having fun with sports and it always shows. The gang at TNT will no doubt be all over every aspect of ALL Star Saturday Night.
Tonight things get underway All-Decade NBA presented by esurance at 5 p.m. Throughout the regular season, 13 categories featuring the top performances, games and moments throughout the 2000’s were voted and selected by the fans on NBA.com. At 6 p.m. (ET), TNT will present a one-hour special Dunk Defying: Spud and Nate which will look back at two notable Slam Dunk Contest champions: Spud Webb and Nate Robinson. At 7 p.m. H.O.R.S.E. presented by GEICO returns with a move to prime time and will showcase 2009 H.O.R.S.E. winner and Western Conference All-Star Kevin Durant challenging Omri Casspi and Rajon Rondo in a classic basketball competition.
NBA All-Star Saturday Night presented by State Farm begins at 8 p.m. (ET), with the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest and the Sprite Slam Dunk. The Haier Shooting Stars, which is a four team competition with each team comprised of an NBA player, WNBA player and NBA legend. For the first time, the four legends in the competition will be TNT and NBA TV analysts, including Kenny Smith (Team Texas), Webber (Team Sacramento), Steve Smith (Team Atlanta) and Brent Barry (Team Los Angeles). The teams will compete in a timed, two-round event featuring six shooting locations of increasing difficulty.
Here is some highlight’s from last years Slam Dunk Contest – thanks to TNT…
