2024 NBA Three-Point Contest: Odds, Picks, and Predictions

Tonight, the final games before the NBA All-Star Break will take place and then it will be time for All-Star weekend. All-Star Saturday night is going to include the usuals; the skills challenge, the three-point contest, and the dunk contest. Hawks point guard Trae Young is going to be participating in two of those.

The three-point contest has become the most anticipated of the events on All-Star Saturday night and it is going to be a star-studded event on Saturday.

Young, Jalen Brunson, Damian Lillard, Tyrese Haliburton, Malik Beasley, Karl Anthony-Towns, Lauri Markkanen, and Donovan Mitchell are going to be competing for the three-point crown and Lillard is aiming to defend his crown. Lillard won the event last year and Towns won the year before.

So what are the oddsmakers saying about Saturday night?

Lillard (+370) is the favorite to defend his title as the three-point champion, but not by much. Haliburton (+440), Young (+550), Beasley (+650), Brunson (+700), Towns (+700), Markkanen (+800), and Mitchell (+950) are all viable candidates to win the title.

So who is going to win this Saturday?

I think that Beasley is an interesting pick for this weekend, as is Young. Of the players involved in the contest, Beasley has the highest three-point percentage among them at 45%, which is 7th in the NBA. I think if there is one player that is overvalued a little bit in the odds market, I think it is Haliburton. He is second in the odds, yet does not have as high of a three-point percentage as Beasley, Markkanen, and Brunson.

I think that Young is going to win his first All-Star Saturday night event. Picking these contests is hard, but I am going to go for the first-time winner and one player who can hit from a distance. Young is third in the NBA in three-pointers made and neither of the players in front of him (Steph Curry and Luka Doncic) are participating in this contest

My Bold Prediction for this Saturday is that Young narrowly beats out Beasley and Brunson in the final round. Young brings home the hardware to Atlanta.

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