All-Star Saturday Night

This year's All-Star Saturday night is an event that pits the Eastern Conference against the Western Conference in four competitions: The Shooting Stars, the Skills Challenge, the Three-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest. Each conference will be competing for two charities with $350,000 going to the winning side's charities and $150,000 to the losing conrefence's charities. Each of the four events features two rounds, a team round and a final. Points are awarded to the conference that wins the team round as well as the team whose player or team wins the final round of each competition. The conference with the most points at the end of the night will be crowned All-Star Saturday Night Champions.

Shooting Stars

The Shooting Stars contest brings together current NBA stars, WNBA stars and former NBA greats. There are six numbered shooting locations of increasing difficulty. Each team of three players (one current NBA star, one WNBA star and one NBA legend) attempts to make all shots in numeric order in the fastest time.

Each team will follow a specific player rotation throughout the competition. Each shot must be made before the next player begins shooting in succession. Teams have up to two minutes to complete the course.

The team of Landry Fields, Allan Houston and Cappie Pondexter won the event last year.

TSN.ca Pick: Team Harden. James Harden is the best NBA three-point shooter in the competition and both of his teammates, Tina Thompson and Sam Cassell, can also stroke it from deep. That range gives them the edge.

Skills Challenge

The Skills Challenge consists of a two-round timed obstacle course where players are tested on their passing, dribbling and shooting. The performers with the fastest time from their respective conference during the Team Round will advance to the finals.

The obstacle course starts with the player having to score a layup/dunk. Next, the player must dribble between three obstacles. They then throw a pass through the air into a first net followed by a bounce pass into a second net. Then, the player shoots a jump shot from 20 feet from the basket. The player then throws a long pass from close to the basket into a third net. Finally, the player will dribble between a second set of three obstacles and complete the course with a layup or shot.

Tony Parker is the defending champion and will look to join Steve Nash and Dwyane Wade as the only two time winners of this event.

TSN.ca Pick: Tony Parker defends his title against a group of young upstarts.

Three-Point Challenge

This may as well be called the Larry Bird challenge as the Celtics legend won the first three three-point challenges ever held.

Five shooting stations are set up around the three-point line, with four "regular" balls worth one point each and one red, white and blue "money ball" worth two points at each location. Each player will have one minute to shoot as many of the 25 balls as he can. The most points ever scored in one round is 25, a record shared by Craig Hodges and Jason Kapono.

Three players from each conference take part in the Team Round. The player from each conference with the most points during the Team Round will advance to the finals.

Last year, Kevin Love took home the title by beating Kevin Durant in the final round.

TSN.ca Pick: Uncle Drew aka Kyrie Irving. Seriously, how amazing would it be if Irving showed up in full Uncle Drew attire and rained down threes?

Slam Dunk Contest

The highlight of All-Star Saturday night, this is the event everyone comes to see.

It's the event that brought us MJ vs 'Nique, Spud Webb's 360, Vinsanity and Blake Griffin jumping over a car.

This year's field may not have the star power of some other years but still features plenty of high flyers including defending champion Jeremy Evans and Toronto Raptors rookie Terrence Ross.

Each competitor will get to attempt two dunks in the Team Round. The highest scoring East competitor and the highest scoring West competitor from the Team Round will then compete head-to-head to determine the champion.

Five former Houston Rockets stars scheduled to judge the contest. Clyde Drexler, Dikembe Mutombo, Hakeem Olajuwon, Rudy Tomjanovich and Yao Ming will do the scoring for the contest's first round.

TSN.ca Pick: James "FLIGHT" White. There's a good reason for his name.