The NBA’s best descend upon Indianapolis this weekend for the NBA All-Star break. There will be two venues for the NBA’s All-Star Weekend — Gainbridge Fieldhouse and Lucas Oil Stadium, where Saturday’s marquee events will be held. Saturday will feature the Skills Challenge, the Slam Dunk contest, Steph vs. Sabrina and the 3-Point Contest, with eight of the world’s best shooters taking part. Milwaukee’s Damian Lillard and Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton will highlight the 3-Point Contest field. Lillard won last year’s event. The NBA 3-Point Contest is the second event of All-Star Saturday and is featured at Lucas Oil Stadium. The evening’s events are set to begin at 8 p.m. ET.
The betting favorite is Lillard at +450, with Haliburton listed at +480 in the latest 2024 3-Point Contest odds. Trae Young of the Atlanta Hawks is next at +550, followed by Karl-Anthony Towns (+600), Donovan Mitchell (+650) and Jalen Brunson (+650). Lauri Markkanen (+700) and Malik Beasley (+850) round out the odds board. Before making any 2024 3-Point Contest picks, be sure to see the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend predictions and betting advice from SportsLine expert Alex ‘PropStarz’ Selesnick.
Selesnick has gone 163-99 (+4584) on his last 262 NBA prop picks on SportsLine. PropStarz specializes in NFL and NBA prop betting, where he implements a combination of research, statistical analysis and mathematical modeling. Anybody following him is way up.
Now, he has set his sights on the 2024 3-Point Contest and just locked in his picks and NBA All-Star Weekend predictions. You can head to SportsLine now to see his picks.
2024 NBA 3-Point Contest predictions
One surprise: PropStarz isn’t backing Towns. Towns, who won in 2022, joins Lillard as past champions in the field. The 7-footer has had a lot of success from long range in his career. In four of his nine seasons, he has connected on 40% or better on his threes, and he is hitting a career-best 43.6% of his 3-pointers this season. Since joining the NBA in 2015-16, Towns has made 959 3-pointers in his career, including 120 this season. That’s the seventh time he has accomplished that. In a game at Chicago last week, he connected on 7 of 16 3-pointers.
Selesnick knows that this is a very difficult field, and questions whether Towns will be able to find his winning groove. History also doesn’t back Towns. In fact, every year since 2007-08, only Stephen Curry has…
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