The NBA All-Star Weekend’s Friday night event, the Rising Stars challenge, is typically the worst one, as it often turns into a glorified AAU all-star game. There’s no defense played, and heck, there’s barely a semblance of offense, either. We get a bunch of youngsters trying to look cool and get their Top Shot moments. The league has experimented on the format several times, but none fixed this event.
Until, perhaps, this time.
I’m confident that we can say that the NBA has fixed the Rising Stars event, and Cade Cunningham led Team Barry to the first meaningful Friday night event of the All-Star Weekend.