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Best Moments by Phoenix Suns on Saturday night of All-Star Weekend

Originally posted on Burn City Sports
By Tanner Tortorella | Last updated Feb 15, 2025 12:36 PM ET

Saturday night of All-Star weekend is every NBA fan’s favorite night of a three-day event. The three events of the Slam Dunk contest, the 3-point contest, and the Skills Challenge have created countless memories engraved in their heads forever. When Vince Carter said it was over, or Aaron Gordon sat in mid-air, or when Kevin Hart almost beat Draymond Green in a 3-point contest, results were still a little fishy surrounding that.

A team that has dominated all those events is the Phoenix Suns, who have had players win every event. In 2010, eight-time All-Star Steve Nash was a Skills challenge master, dethroning previous champion Deron Williams with a score under 30 seconds. Nash has won the Skills Challenge twice (2005 and 2010) and is one of three players to win the event two times.

2/13/10 – One day after lighting the Olympic flame to open the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, CA, Phoenix #Suns PG Steve Nash "sleepwalked" through to the #NBA Skills Challenge title, his second such title of his career (2005) defeating Deron Williams w/a time of 29.9sec. pic.twitter.com/tbZJQ2GlHb

— Arizona Sports History (@AZSportsHistory) February 13, 2025

Phoenix made history in the first-ever Slam Dunk contest, with Larry Nance Sr. winning the inaugural event in 1984. Nance Sr. competed against Hall of Famer Julius Erving in the final round of the 1984 NBA dunk contest. After a brutal miss on Erving’s second attempt, Nance Jr. had victory in the bag with a sensational windmill cradled from the right side to the left for the slam.

Nance Jr. is one of two Suns players to win the Slam Dunk contest, with Cedric Ceballos winning in 1992 via a blindfolded dunk. Despite their wins, the most iconic moment from a Sun might be Amar’e Stoudemire and Steve Nash in the 2005 Dunk Contest, which had one of the most creative dunks in the past decades.

This Steve Nash and Amar'e Stoudemire jam from the 2005 Dunk Contest pic.twitter.com/q8hiEvi6zI

— Fastbreak Hoops (@FastbreakHoops5) January 19, 2025

The 3-point contest has had two Suns players as winners, Quentin Richardson (2005) and Devin Booker (2018). In the 35-year history of the event, only one player had a better score percentage than Devin Booker.

Booker’s 28/34 (82.35%) final score max points is second all-time in the event’s history behind Jason Kapono in 2008. He outlasted Splash brother Klay Thompson’s score of 25 points to bring home the trophy to Phoenix.

This article first appeared on Burn City Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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