TheNBA Skills Challenge (officially named theKia Skills Challenge) is aNational Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annualAll-Star Game as part of theAll-Star Weekend. First held in 2003, it is a competition to test ball-handling, passing, and shooting ability.

Until the 2022 edition, two participants raced against each other on identical courses by first dribbling between five obstacles while running down the court. Next, the player must throw a pass into an upright hoop. Then, the players must dribble back the full length of the court for a lay up. Shortly after, the players must dribble back down the court and hit athree pointer from the top of the basketball key. The match ends when the first player hits the three pointer. The champion was decided via a single elimination tournament format, with a guard and afrontcourt player guaranteed to face off in the final round. Frontcourt players were first allowed and invited to participate in 2016, and the event has since crowned centers and forwards as winners, beginning withKarl-Anthony Towns that year^[1] and followed byKristaps Porziņģis in 2017,Bam Adebayo in 2020, andDomantas Sabonis in 2021.

In the current format, used since 2022, three teams participate in a four-round competition. One of the teams competing is always composed of players from the host team. The first round is identical to previous editions, this time as a team relay, with the fastest team earning 100 points. The second round is a passing challenge where players must pass the ball through different targets, with the highest-scoring team also earning 100 points. The third round is a shooting challenge where players must make field goals from different spots, with the highest-scoring team earning 200 points. The two highest-scoring teams overall advance to the final round, which is a half-court shootout, where the fastest team to make a field goal from the half-court line wins the entire skills challenge.^[2] The format was slightly altered in 2023, with the challenge now ending after three rounds. The order of the first three rounds is reversed and the half-court shootout becomes a tiebreaker round. The current champions areDonovan Mitchell andEvan Mobley from the TeamCavaliers in 2025.

Steve Nash (left),Dwyane Wade (center), andDamian Lillard (right) share the record for most titles won (2).

Season	Player(s)	Nationality	Team(s)	Time
2002–03	Jason Kidd*	United States	New Jersey Nets	35.1 seconds
2003–04	Baron Davis	United States	New Orleans Hornets	31.6 seconds
2004–05	Steve Nash*	Canada	Phoenix Suns	25.8 seconds
2005–06	Dwyane Wade*	United States	Miami Heat	26.1 seconds
2006–07	Dwyane Wade* (2)	United States	Miami Heat (2)	26.4 seconds
2007–08	Deron Williams	United States	Utah Jazz	25.5 seconds[a]
2008–09	Derrick Rose†	United States	Chicago Bulls	35.3 seconds
2009–10	Steve Nash* (2)	Canada	Phoenix Suns (2)	29.9 seconds
2010–11	Stephen Curry^	United States	Golden State Warriors	28.2 seconds
2011–12	Tony Parker*	France	San Antonio Spurs	32.8 seconds
2012–13	Damian Lillard^	United States	Portland Trail Blazers	29.8 seconds
2013–14	Damian Lillard^ (2) Trey Burke	United States  United States	Portland Trail Blazers (2) Utah Jazz (2)	45.2 seconds
2014–15	Patrick Beverley	United States	Houston Rockets	—
2015–16	Karl-Anthony Towns^	Dominican Republic	Minnesota Timberwolves	—
2016–17	Kristaps Porziņģis^	Latvia	New York Knicks	—
2017–18	Spencer Dinwiddie^	United States	Brooklyn Nets (2)	—
2018–19	Jayson Tatum^	United States	Boston Celtics	—
2019–20	Bam Adebayo^	United States	Miami Heat (3)	—
2020–21	Domantas Sabonis^	Lithuania	Indiana Pacers	—
2021–22	Darius Garland^ Evan Mobley^ Jarrett Allen^	United States  United States  United States	Cleveland Cavaliers	—
2022–23	Jordan Clarkson^ Walker Kessler^ Collin Sexton^	Philippines[B]  United States  United States	Utah Jazz (3)	—
2023–24	Tyrese Haliburton^ Myles Turner^ Bennedict Mathurin^	United States  United States  Canada	Indiana Pacers (2)	—
2024–25	Donovan Mitchell^ Evan Mobley^ (2)	United States  United States	Cleveland Cavaliers (2)	—

• ^a The time is the all-time event record.^[3]
• ^b Jameer Nelson was injured and was replaced by Mo Williams.
• ^c Derrick Rose was injured and was replaced by Russell Westbrook.
• ^d Stephen Curry was injured and was replaced by Rajon Rondo.
• ^e For the2013–14 season, the NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge was revamped to have 4 teams of two players compete to a two-round time relay-style course.
• ^f John Wall was replaced by Patrick Beverley due to resting purposes.
• ^g Michael Carter-Williams was replaced with his teammate Robert Covington due to injuries. Covington would be replaced by Elfrid Payton due to resting purposes.
• ^h Jimmy Butler was replaced by Dennis Schröder due to a shoulder injury.
• ⁱ Starting with the2014–15 season, the NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge was revamped to a best of 8 tournament where after 8 players competed in the first round, only 4 would go to the semi-final round and 2 would participate in the championship round.
• ^j Defending champion Patrick Beverley would be replaced by rookie Emmanuel Mudiay due to an ankle injury.
• ^k Joel Embiid was replaced by Nikola Jokić due to a knee injury.
• ^l Kristaps Porziņģis was replaced by Andre Drummond due to a torn ACL injury.
• ^m Donovan Mitchell was replaced by Buddy Hield after Mitchell replacedAaron Gordon for theSlam Dunk Contest.

Starting with the 2015 edition of the Skills Challenge, atournament format was adopted.

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