Tyrese Maxey couldn\u2019t be more deserving of his starting spot in this year\u2019s NBA All-Star game, and now it\u2019s been confirmed he\u2019ll be giving us some extra entertainment in the Three-Point Contest as well.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the full lineup of who he\u2019ll be taking on next Saturday:<\/p>\n
While this year\u2019s group is largely highly experienced veteran guards (credit to Bobby Portis, a 45.1 percent three-point shooter this season, albeit on far simpler\/lower volume, for throwing himself in the mix) Kon Knueppel is a great inclusion to represent the rookie class. Knueppel is one of the NBA\u2019s highest volume shooters, with his 7.8 attempts per game ranking 15th in the league, all while making them at a stellar 42.8 percent clip.<\/p>\n
Jamal Murray\u2019s weekend will be a memorable one too, what with him finally making his debut as an All-Star.<\/p>\n
Damian Lillard is a surprising inclusion. He\u2019s not even playing this season as he\u2019s out for the year with an Achilles injury, but he\u2019s clearly keen to go for his third win of the contest after taking home the trophy in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n
Obviously it comes down to who gets hot on the night and can stay consistent, but Donovan Mitchell will likely be a big threat for Maxey with the way he\u2019s shooting this season. The Cavs guard is taking more threes (9.7 attempts per game) than everyone bar Steph Curry and Luka Doncic, including a ton off the dribble as usual, and making 37.9 percent of them.<\/p>\n
Even though Maxey\u2019s three-point shooting has cooled off over the last few weeks (30.4 percent over his last 14 games), he\u2019s still at 38.2 percent from deep for the season on a whopping 8.8 attempts per game, including tons of high-difficulty pull-ups and step-backs.<\/p>\n
His range has continued to grow and he\u2019s so comfortable attempting any kind of shot, whether he\u2019s flying into a three running off movement, pulling up off deep ball screens, or creating space for himself.<\/p>\n
It\u2019ll be exciting to see if Maxey can get on a heater and take home the Three-Point Contest win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyrese Maxey couldn\u2019t be more deserving of his starting spot in this year\u2019s NBA All-Star game, and now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,6,678,207,3817,4186],"class_list":{"0":"post-592083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","13":"tag-philadelphia76ers","14":"tag-sixers-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116039622617885702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592083","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=592083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}