Controversy in All-Star Skills Challenge? Yes. And Cavaliers won event.
CP3 and Wemby DISQUALIFIED after trying to hack the NBA Skills Challenge 😂 pic.twitter.com/LuSJy74oRc
It turns out that there is a rule book that governs the NBA All-Star Saturday Night Skills Challenge. Seriously. Paul and Wembanyama were disqualified for not making a valid attempt at shooting the ball — an NBA executive came out with a rule book to show Paul where it said that.
'If they weren't disqualified, I think we probably would have just did the same thing to be honest with you,' the Cavaliers Donovan Mitchell said. 'Play to win, I guess.'
With the Spurs out of the way, the Cleveland Cavaliers team of All-Stars Evan Mobley and Mitchell went on to win the event.
Team Cavs goes first in the Final Round of the #KiaSkills Challenge 🍿 pic.twitter.com/9FG6DVHCqB
In the event finals, it was the Cavaliers against the Warriors — Draymond Green and Moses Moody — in what was a fitting Finals throwback vibe. The bad news for the Warriors fans filling the Chase Center it was more reminiscent of 2016, when Green let the Warriors down — he did it again and Cleveland got the upset at home.
But all we're going to be talking about is the Spurs trying to cheat their way to a win.
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