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Trae Young Set to Participate in 2024 All-Star Skills Challenge and Three-Point Contest

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By Jackson Caudell | Last updated Feb 8, 2024 1:33 PM ET

Not only is Trae Young going to be playing in next Sunday's NBA All-Star Game, but he is going to be participating in two All-Star Saturday night contests.

Young is going to be participating in the 2024 Kia Skills Challenge and the STARRY 3-Point Contest.

For the Skills Challenge, Young is going to be teamed up with Raptors forward Scottie Barnes and Tyrese Maxey on "Team All-Star". They will be facing Team Pacers ( Tyrese Haliburton, Myles Turner, and Benedict Mathurin), and Team Top Picks (Victor Wembanyama, Anthony Edwards, and Paolo Banchero). In the three-point contest, Young will face Karl Anthony-Towns, Donovan Mitchell, Lauri Markkanen, Damian Lillard, Tyrese Haliburton, Jalen Brunson, and Maik Beasley.

All-Star Saturday night is set to begin next Saturday at 8:00 p.m.

Young, who is an All-Star for the third time in his career (2020, 2022, 2024), is averaging career-bests of 10.9 assists and 1.5 steals while registering 27.3 points and 2.8 rebounds in a career-high 36.6 minutes per game. He has handed out an NBA-leading 490 assists, on pace to become the first player to lead the league in total assists in three straight seasons since Steve Nash (2009-12), per Elias Sports.

Among Eastern Conference players, the sixth-year guard ranks second in assists per game (also second in the NBA), third in points per game (eighth in the NBA), second in steals per game (seventh in the NBA) and first in made three-pointers per game (3.4 3FGM, fourth in the NBA). He is the only player in the NBA averaging at least 25.0 points and 10.0 assists and is the only player in the East, and one of only two players in the NBA this season, to be ranked top 10 in points per game, assists per game and steals per game.

This season, Young has recorded an NBA-leading 27 games with 20-or-more points and 10-or-more assists, in addition to an Eastern Conference-leading 14 games with 30-or-more points and 10-or-more assists (second-most such games in the NBA). The Oklahoma product registered at least 30 points and 10 assists in seven straight games from Dec. 13 through Dec. 23, tying Oscar Robertson for the longest such streak in NBA history. He currently owns 76 career games of 30+ points and 10+ assists, tied with Nate Archibald for the fifth-most such games in NBA history.

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