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Haier Shooting Stars

Team Detroit ( Bill Laimbeer,Aaron Afflalo,Katie Smith)
defeated the hometown team (Dan Majerlie, Leandro Barbosa,
Tangela Smith) to win annual Haier Shooting Stars.



Playstation Skills Challenge



Derrick Rose clocked a final round time of 35.3 seconds and capped it with an empathic
double-pump reverse dunk to defeat Devin Harris of the New Jersey Nets.

Elim Round:
Rose(Chi)- 33.3 secs
Harris(NJ) - 36.9 secs
Williams(Cle) - 37.5 secs
Tony Parker(SA) - 50.8 secs

Final Round:
Rose - 35.3 secs
Harris - 39.7 secs

Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout

Daequan Cook made 4-of-5 in the last rack of the finals round to force an extra session with Rashard Lewis. Thanks to Lewis trouble finding to connect until the third rack scoring only 7 points,
Cook wrapped up the extra session with 19 points to end Jason Kapono's reign as the best sharpshooter.

Elim Round:


Bibby (Atl) -14 pts
Mason (SA) -13 pts
Granger (Ind) -13 pts

Finals Round:
Cook (Mia) -15 pts
Lewis (Orl) -15 pts
Kapono (Tor) -14 pts

Overtime:
Cook (Mia) - 19 pts.
Lewis (Orl) - 7 pts.

Sprite Slam Dunk Contest




First Round:
JR Smith - Two bounces with a windmill
Rudy Fernandez - Behind the back pass to the glass and crammed it with a one hander Nate Robinson - Nothing special but since he's 5 foot 7 it still crazy
Dwight Howard - Lob the ball behind the backboard and windmill.

Second Round:
JR Smith - tried replcating Fred Jones's alleyoop from the crowd,not that impressive though
Rudy Fernandez - Pau Gasol throw a behind the back off the backboard and Rudy coming
out of bounds to finish,should have been nice if it goes well in their first try
Nate Robinson - He jumped on Wilson Chandlers back for the dunk
Dwight Howard - He disappeared into a phone booth just off the court, emerging with a
Superman cape. Took the bounce pass from Jameer Nelson and tomahawked dunk.

Final Round:
Nate Robinson
First Dunk - Reverse jackknife dunk
Second Dunk - He uses Howard as a props and spring boarding over the 6-foot-11 center for the jam.

Dwight Howard

First Dunk - Throw the ball in the side of the backboard
finishing with a tomahawk
Second Dunk - Took off just inside the freethrow line for
the throwdown.


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