An All Star Saturday Night to Remember

This weekend Toronto has been home for NBA All Star festivities. This is the first time All Star weekend has taken place outside the U.S. It was kicked off Friday night with the Celebrity game, which was entertaining as usual. Tracy McGrady, Jason Sudeikis, Drake, and Kevin Hart were just a few of the headline names for the game. Then the second event Friday was the Rising Stars challenge. The Rising stars challenge may have had the deepest pool of players ever. Both the 2014 and 2015 draft classes were deep and fans got to see all the talent from those drafts on the same floor. Zach LaVine won the game MVP.

And the night everyone looks forward to, Saturday night. The night began with the Skills Challenge. There were some changes to the Skills Challenge this year and the most notable was the addition of big men. The guards had their own bracket and the big men had their bracket. The winners of each bracket would go head to head in a final showdown. Isaiah Thomas and Karl-Anthony Towns would be the two finalist. And surprisingly Towns would win becoming the first center to win the Skills Challenge. A video below shows every player going and the final between Thomas and Towns.

The next event was the Three Point Contest. The event has become more and more hyped each year with more and more great shooters participating. Last night the final would come down to 19 year old Devin Booker, Klay Thompson, and Stephen Curry. Booker wouldn't post enough to beat the Splash Brothers with a score of 16. Curry would go next and post a score of 23. This would leave all the pressure on Thompson. Thompson would rise to the occasion and beat Curry's 23 with a 27. This event has been very exciting in recent years and hopefully it continues to stay that way.

The night was then capped off by the main event, the Dunk Contest. Last years winner Zach LaVine returned to defend his title. It wasn't going to be easy though. Aaron Gordon showed out and honestly many believe he should have won. It was by far the most thrilling dunk contest in a long time, if not ever. Every one of Gordon's dunks was matched by LaVine. They both posted perfect score after perfect score in the final round. They needed two dunk off rounds to settle things and in the end LaVine would come out on top. Either way it was very entertaining and the video below is a highlight reel of the full dunk contest.

Hopefully today's All Star game has the same amount of excitement that last nights events brought. The All Star game will tip off at 8 p.m. Eastern time and can be seen on TNT.