NBA Fans React to Questionable NBA All-Star Skills Challenge
February 16, 2025
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NBA All-Star Saturday night is in full swing, and the first event that kicked off the festivities is the All-Star Skills Challenge.
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While it was one of the more fun events on Saturday night in the past, it has turned into a snooze fest. While the NBA is beloved, All-Star weekend necessarily isn’t, and neither is the Skills Challenge.
Evan Mobley #4 and Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Cleveland Cavaliers pose with trophies after winning the 2025 KIA Skills Challenge as part of the State Farm All-Star Saturday Night at Chase Center on February… Evan Mobley #4 and Donovan Mitchell #45 of the Cleveland Cavaliers pose with trophies after winning the 2025 KIA Skills Challenge as part of the State Farm All-Star Saturday Night at Chase Center on February 15, 2025 in San Francisco, California.
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Fans on social media expressed their dissatisfaction with the Skills Challenge.
Here’s what fans had to say about the first event of Saturday night.
I can’t believe the nba still does the skills challenge every year it gets more embarrassing and makes the whole night look more pointless lol
— lil smoozle (@PokeSmoki) February 16, 2025
Any skilled Jr High School ball player can do this “skills challenge” and put up the same time. The @nba makes no sense with this non sense setup. It’s a joke
— Gabi (@gabikates) February 16, 2025
This is the most embarrassing “skills” challenge ive ever seen lol aint nobody learned fundamentals apparently #NBAAllStar #NBA
— danielstweetpage (@OGdanieltweets) February 16, 2025
The Skills Challenge was one thing, but all eyes immediately turned to Spurs stars Chris Paul and Victor Wembanaya. The two were disqualified from the event after the two-star players tried to ‘hack’ the Skills Challenge by throwing up shots quickly without trying to make them save time.
Boos started to reign down from the fans at the Chase Center. Both players thought they were following the rule book but were later disqualified for violating the rules by not attempting actual shots.
Cheating in the NBA All Star Skills Challenge is one thing, but the league themselves being the ones to deny Allie LaForce from interviewing Chris Paul was just bizarre😂😂😂
— AC (@a_coleman25) February 16, 2025
Chris Paul teaching Wemby his cheating habits. He is supposed to be a leader on the team. 🤦♂️
— Surya (@suryakriz) February 16, 2025
Thank god the rules buttoned this up and DQ’d them
This will be the last moment at an all star weekend where we’ll see Chris Paul and he made a disgrace of it for himself
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— Pistol Pete⏱ (@PeteOfTheMoment) February 16, 2025
Chris Paul and Wemby won the skills challenge by a lot. Some say fastest and best attempt ever. Crooked Silver trying to steal away a legitimate win.
— BRINK Enjoyer (@ubermanofsteel) February 16, 2025
For most of its existence, the Skills Challenge was an individual event where players made their way through a basketball obstacle course as quickly as possible. In 2022, however, the NBA decided to turn it into a team competition, and this year, four teams of two will compete.
This year’s Skills Challenge was divided into three phases. Each phase conferred a certain number of “Challenge Points” to the winner, and the team with the most Challenge Points at the end took home the trophy.
The three phases the teams needed to go through were passing, shooting, and dribbling, the three keys to the game.
The four teams that were included were Team Cavaliers, featuring Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley, who ended up winning the event; Team Warriors, featuring Moses Moody and Draymond Green; and Team Rooks, featuring Zaccharie Risacher and Alex Sarr.
Team Cavaliers, which featured Mitchell and Mobley, were the winners of 2025.
The cities of Oakland and San Francisco have the All-Star festivities this weekend. It was their first time doing so since 2000.
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