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This year, six basketball players will compete in the skills competition.
Four of them will start the fights from the first stage and two will enter the competition in the second stage.
The two players who received direct tickets to the second round were evaluated by the number of performances in the All-Star game.
Phoenix Suns player Chris Paul, who was voted among the stars for the 11th time, had no competitors by this criteria, and Luka Dončičius became the second player to advance directly to the second round.
Slovenia, as well as Montenegro’s D. Sabonis and Nikola Vučevičius, were chosen for the All-Star Game for the second time this year, but only Luka entered the event both times as a member of the five starters, thus taking second place. in the semifinals of the competition.
After drawing the spells, it became clear that in the first stage D. Sabonis will fight New York Knicks leader Julius Randle.
If the Lithuanian manages to beat the American, in the second stage he will compete with L. Dončičius for a place in the final.
In the next pair, N.Vučevičius will compete with Portland Trail Blazers forward Robert Covington. The winner of this pair will win with Paul in the semifinals.
Sabonis, who also participated in the skills competition last year, beat Jayson Tatum and Khris Middleton in the first two stages and only reached Miami Heat’s top Bam Adebayo in the final.
The skills competition, as well as the All-Star match, will take place in the evening from Sunday to Monday in Lithuanian time. The event starts at 1.30 pm. of the night.
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