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Relive An Epic All-Star Saturday

Updated Feb. 16, 2020 2:12 p.m. ET

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NBA All-Star Saturday night is the most interesting night of All-Star Weekend. (And interestingly enough, we picked two of the winners.)

Anticipation for the evening was at an all-time high this year, and with good reason — Saturday turned into an epic event, from start to finish. Let's relive it together, shall we?

Skills Challenge

In an event usually reserved for guards and wing players, the bigs showed up and showed out this year.Miami Heat All-Star Bam Adebayo and Indiana Pacers All-Star Domantas Sabonis dominated the field en route to going head-to-head in the final round.

Adebayo proved to be the more skillful of the two, taking the trophy back with him to South Beach.

3-Point Contest

Sparks flew in the 3-Point Contest, as it came down to a battle of three sharpshooters: Devin Booker, Buddy Hield and Davis Bertans.

After a close round one, in which all three crossed the 25-point mark, the final round appeared to belong to Booker after catching fire for 26 points.

But the night would instead belong to Hield, as he made a buzzer-beating money ball on his last rack to outduel Booker and score 27 to take home the trophy.

As for the favorite in the contest, Trae Young? Well ... we'll let Young speak for himself:

Dunk Contest

Only Aaron Gordon and Derrick Jones Jr. could follow up that 3-point shootout.

In fact, regulation wasn't enough, as both guys had to break out two extra dunks to decide a winner.

And it was one incredible dunk...

...after another.

Ultimately, Jones Jr. was named the winner.

But it wasn’t without controversy, considering Gordon did this:

The controversial ruling set Twitter ablaze.

Fortunately for us, we picked Jones Jr.

Two out of three ain’t bad.

But it wasn't just about the winners. Dwight Howard paid homage to Kobe Bryant with a "Superman" dunk ...

...a dunk that was supposed to include Kobe.

Congratulations to all the winners — and thanks to Dwight for one of what will assuredly be many Kobe tributes this weekend.

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