The All-Star Weekend

This NBA All-Star weekend is going to be great. It is kicking off with the celebrity All-Star game and the Rookie challenge. Celebrities that will be participating in this event include Clyde Drexler, Terrell Owens, Chris Tucker, several of the Harlem Globetrotters, and many others. For more details on this game go to http://www.nba.com/2009/allstar2009/02/10/celebrity_roster.allstar09.20090210/index.html.

In my opinion, Saturday night is going to be the most exciting night of all the All-Star weekend. It starts out with the Shooting Stars challenge. This competition takes one NBA star, one WNBA star, and one NBA legend, puts them on one team, and they must work togeather to hit a series of different shots including a lay-up, a three point shot, and a half court shot. After that is the skills challenge. This is a competition between the quickest guards in the NBA. They must complete a few passes, shoot some shots, and dribble around obsticles. It sounds much more simple than it acctually is. After the skills challenge comes the Three Point Shoot Out. It is simply what it sounds like. Each participant must make as many three point shots out of 25 shots, in one minute. To top the night off, there is the Dunk competition. In this competition, Dwight Howard, Nate Robinson, J.R. Smith, and Rudy Fernandez will be competing to see who can complete the most acrobatic dunk. They will be scored out of fifty points, each judge can give up to ten points. The judges are usually NBA legends.

On Sunday the acctual All-Star game takes place. this is a test of skills between players from the Eastern coast of the United States, and the West Coast. It is always a very good game. I think the East will take home the prise.