Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 star Donovan Mitchell will participate in the 2026 State Farm 3-Point Contest. This will be Mitchell\u2019s third time competing in the contest, second time as a member of the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n
Mitchell is joined in this year\u2019s contest by Devin Booker, Kon Knueppel, Jamal Murray, Tyrese Maxey, Bobby Portis Jr, Norman Powell and surprise candidate Damian Lillard, who hasn\u2019t played in a game yet this season but could match the all-time record of three wins.<\/p>\n
The 3-Point Contest will be the first event of All-Star Saturday night, marking a shift from recent years. This is a weird decision, in my opinion, as the contest has arguably become the most popular event of the weekend. So, make sure you remember this change so you don\u2019t end up missing it.<\/p>\n
Mitchell currently leads the NBA in total three-point makes with 180 threes in 49 games. Charlotte rookie Knueppel is third with 174 makes, while Maxey is right behind him at 169. Cleveland\u2019s franchise record for three-pointers in a season is 245, set by Mitchell in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers last won the contest in 2013 when Kyrie Irving took home the trophy. Mark Price won back-to-back contests in 1993 and 1994. Other notable contestants include Darius Garland and Daniel Gibson.<\/p>\n
Cleveland\u2019s Sam Merrill isn\u2019t in the contest despite being one of the league\u2019s best three-point shooting role players. Merrill implied that he prefers golfing during the All-Star break in recent years, so perhaps that\u2019s why. Either way, it makes sense for the league\u2019s leading sniper, Mitchell, to get the nod. But it would have been cool to see multiple Cavaliers in the event.<\/p>\n
Mitchell is also the only Cavalier who will be playing on All-Star Sunday. He\u2019s had a career-year in Cleveland and carried this team when they struggled early in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleveland Cavaliers\u2019 star Donovan Mitchell will participate in the 2026 State Farm 3-Point Contest. This will be Mitchell\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,306,147,305,193,3846,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-591204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cavaliers","10":"tag-cavs-news","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116036964627224787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}