NBA All-Star Weekend best bets: ASG, 3-point contest and more

With the NFL in the rearview mirror, it is now time for other sports to take center stage. There may not be another professional sport that is more fun to bet on than the NBA.

This weekend, the eyes of the sports world will descend upon Indianapolis for the NBA All-Star Weekend. There are a number of betting options, from the skills challenge to the three-point contest to the All-Star game itself.

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Without further ado, here are some of our favorite bets for All-Star weekend.

This event is such a cool idea, and it took form after Ionescu challenged Curry following last summer’s WNBA All-Star game. Curry agreed to the idea, and while it was initially announced that Ionescu would shoot from the WNBA three-point line, she requested to have the same rules as Curry and shoot from the further NBA line.

Ionescu recently hinted that she has already defeated Curry in an exhibition contest. She also says that she regularly practices from NBA range. The crowd at Bankers Life Fieldhouse will most likely be on Ionescu’s side and, although most of the money is on Curry, with a toss-up and odds like this, we are going with the New York Liberty star.

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Brunson has defied the odds his entire career. Despite being a McDonald’s All-American in high school, winning two NCAA championships and being named national player of the year, Brunson was not selected until the second round of the NBA draft. Fast forward six years and Brunson will appear in his first NBA All-Star game.

We should have learned not to doubt him by now, but here we are, betting on him to fail. Players making their first three-point contest historically tend to underwhelm, and Brunson has really cooled down from downtown lately. Prior to a big game (5-8 from deep) to close out the first half of the season, Brunson had not made more than one-third of his three-point attempts in a game for seven straight games. The aforementioned factors combine to make us believe this number is too high for Brunson to reach.

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The NBA All-Star Game is one of the most unpredictable events, so why not roll with a bunch of superstars who are getting plus-money? With players like Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jayson Tatum and Damian Lillard, who have all shined on this stage before, there is no reason they can’t topple the older West team. So sprinkle some lunch money on the “home” team and enjoy these stars as they shine their brightest.

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