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NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge

The NBA Skills Challenge was a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annual All-Star Game as part of the All-Star Weekend. First held in 2003 and last held in 2025, it was a competition to test ball-handling, passing, and shooting ability. In 2026, it was replaced by the returning Shooting Stars competition.

All-time participants
• The time is the all-time event record. • Jameer Nelson was injured and was replaced by Mo Williams. • Derrick Rose was injured and was replaced by Russell Westbrook. • Stephen Curry was injured and was replaced by Rajon Rondo. • For the season, the NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge was revamped to have 4 teams of two players compete to a two-round time relay-style course. • John Wall was replaced by Patrick Beverley due to resting purposes. • Michael Carter-Williams was replaced with his teammate Robert Covington due to injuries. Covington would be replaced by Elfrid Payton due to resting purposes. • Jimmy Butler was replaced by Dennis Schröder due to a shoulder injury. • Starting with the season, the NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge was revamped to a best of 8 tournament where after 8 players competed in the first round, only 4 would go to the semi-final round and 2 would participate in the championship round. • Defending champion Patrick Beverley would be replaced by rookie Emmanuel Mudiay due to an ankle injury. • Joel Embiid was replaced by Nikola Jokić due to a knee injury. • Kristaps Porziņģis was replaced by Andre Drummond due to a torn ACL injury. • Donovan Mitchell was replaced by Buddy Hield after Mitchell replaced Aaron Gordon for the Slam Dunk Contest. == Tournament Bracket (2015–2021) ==
Tournament Bracket (2015–2021)
Starting with the 2015 edition of the Skills Challenge, a tournament format was adopted. ;2015 ;2016 ;2017 ;2018 ;2019 ;2020 ;2021 == Sponsors ==
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