{"id":26176,"date":"2024-02-17T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/26176\/2024-nba-all-star-weekend-live\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T08:56:17","slug":"2024-nba-all-star-weekend-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=26176","title":{"rendered":"2024 NBA All-Star Weekend: Live updates and highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2024 NBA All-Star Weekend: Live updates and highlights\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend is underway with a packed slate in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On Saturday, Team Top Picks, Team Pacers and Team All-Stars will begin the day&#39;s action in the skills challenge.  Defending 3-point contest winner Damian Lillard returns to defend his title against a field that includes 2022 champion Karl-Anthony Towns.  McClung, the winner of the 2023 slam dunk contest, will also look to repeat against Jaylen Brown, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Jacob Toppin.<\/p>\n<p>After the traditional 3-point contest, Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu will face off in a special edition of the long-distance competition.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend will end with the flagship event on Sunday: the 73rd NBA All-Star Game.  Unlike last year, which used an on-field draft format in which team captains made their selections before the game, a traditional East vs. West matchup will be played for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Jayson Tatum was named MVP after dropping 55 points, a record in an All-Star Game.  He&#39;s back as a starter and hopes to lead the Eastern Conference to a victory alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo and Tyrese Haliburton.  The Western Conference starting lineup consists of LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Nikola Jokic.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the best moments from the NBA midseason showcase:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module-iframe-wrapper \">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"arena-liveblog-iframe\" height=\"2000\" width=\"100%\" class=\"frame iframe-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=espn-69077&amp;event=XuLfKQn&amp;v=2&amp;theme=light\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"false\" mozallowfullscreen=\"false\" and=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" seemless=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 NBA All-Star Weekend: Live updates and highlights\u060c The 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend is underway with a packed slate in Indianapolis. Editor&#39;s Choice 1 Related On Saturday, Team Top Picks, Team Pacers and Team All-Stars will begin the day&#39;s action in the skills challenge. Defending 3-point contest winner Damian Lillard returns to defend his title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3703,1061,120,162,657,2782],"class_list":["post-26176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-allstar","tag-highlights","tag-live","tag-nba","tag-updates","tag-weekend"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26178,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26176\/revisions\/26178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}