NBA All Star Game, Mac McClung is still the dunk king

Bucks star è confirmed in three-point shooting competition

Excitement at the NBA All Star Game. As tradition, on Saturday day, space for the Slam Dunk Contest and the 3-Point Contest. In the former, as happened last year, the trophy è went to Mac McClung . The G-League point guard overcame, in the finals, Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, winning, for the second time, the title of dunk king. Decisive was the last dunk in which he è literally jumped over Shaq O'Neal.

Mac McClung è the fifth to succeed in winning the Slam Dunk Contest two years in a row. He joins Zach LaVine (2015-16), Nate Robinson (2009-10), Jason Richardson (2002-03) and Michael Jordan (1987-88), the only ones before him who succeeded in such a feat. On the possibility of trying again next year, Mac McClung è was rather vague: "I will think about it ".

In the other challenge, the famous three-point contest, the trophy è ended up in the hands of Damian Lillard, who also won in the 2023 All Star Game. The last person to win at least two three-point contests had been Jason Kapono (2007 and 2008). The last to surrender to Bucks star Damian Lillard è was Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks. Tonight the competition of the stars to close the All Star Game in Indianapolis.