The individual events on the second day of All-Star Weekend lacked some star power, but both the process and the results were rather unexpected.
In the Skills Challenge, the big men once again defeated the smaller players.
Porzingis beat Towns in the big men's final, then defeated Isaiah Thomas from the smaller players' group to claim the title.
While the fans' visual experience was fully satisfied, they also discovered that this event, once belonging to smaller players, was now completely dominated by big men.
Porzingis had won two consecutive titles, and coupled with his outstanding performance for the Suns this season, he had begun to emerge as a new generation star power forward.
In the Three-Point Contest, Thompson performed just like he had this season and suffered an early elimination in the preliminaries.
Gordon defeated Bojan and CJ McCollum in the final to win the Three-Point Contest title.
This was also his second Three-Point Contest championship. The last time had been when he was with the Pelicans.
He had flourished with the Rockets this season and enjoyed a Second Spring, and this championship proved just how good his form was.
After Gordon won, Tang Tian rose to congratulate him.
Gordon had been one of the earliest players to become Tang Tian's teammate. Unfortunately, he had been traded away before the Pelicans won a championship.
He had been in poor form back then, but now that he had found it again after arriving at the Rockets, Tang Tian was happy for him.
The results of both the Skills Challenge and the Three-Point Contest had been somewhat unexpected, but what truly caught everyone off guard was the Slam Dunk Contest.
In his first appearance, Aaron Gordon became a surprise success. Three of his four dunks received perfect scores, and he easily won