Miami Heat: Taking a slightly deeper look at All-Star Saturday night
Taco Bell Skills Challenge
As we all know this event tests a player’s ability to do the basic skills of basketball, running, cutting, passing, and shooting. The catch is that just like the NBA is the highest level of basketball in the world, it attempts to challenge you to do these very innate and simple skills at the highest level.
Bam Adebayo is just a huge point guard from a skill set perspective, so he should be just fine. Here is the rest of what you need to know.
Lineup-Odds
- Bam Adebayo- Miami Heat +1000
- Patrick Beverley– LA Clippers +650
- Spencer Dinwiddie– Brooklyn Nets +385
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander– Oklahoma City Thunder (Injury replacement) +450
- Khris Middleton– Milwaukee Bucks +425
- Domantas Sabonis– Indiana Pacers +900
- Pascal Siakam– Toronto Raptors +550
- Jayson Tatum– Boston Celtics +400
- **INJURED**-Derrick Rose– Detroit Pistons
Take
Based on the odds, Spencer Dinwiddie is slightly favorited over both Jayson Tatum and Khris Middleton to win the competition. To completely highlight the disrespect, Bam Adebayo has the longest odds to win the competition according to the bookmakers, but it wouldn’t be the first time the experts were wrong about Bam.
Anybody can win the thing in this competition because they are all extremely skilled, but it will be about who is the sharpest, most on-edge, most competitive, and most willing to take this thing seriously. Most people don’t take it seriously or they don’t until it’s in the later rounds and too late, which most of the time causes them to lose it. Bam Adebayo isn’t typically the type to do anything half-heartedly, so that means he has just as good a chance as anyone.