“What a competitive game with high stakes!” said no one about the 2019 Rising Stars Challenge. Even with no real fire in the stove, the players had a lot of fun. De’Aaron Fox described an instagram conversation between himself, Trae Young, and Donovan Mitchell . A few days before the exhibition, they schemed to secure the win. Fox made his plans known to the others.
“I was trying to break his (John Wall) assist record.” Fox admitted after the contest. Fox finished with 16 assists - just 5 shy of Wall’s 22 assists, set in the 2010 Rising Stars Challenge.