For the first time in their NBA careers, Boston Celtics All-Star wings Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum will be competing against one another.
They’ll do it in the 2021 NBA All-Star Mountain Dew 3-Point Contest, where they will compete against former 3-Point Contest champions Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns and Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, as well as Zach LaVine of the Chicago Bulls and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz, according to the league’s recently-circulated press release. The event — in the 35th year of its existence — will take place at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on March 7, the day of the All-Star game.
It will be the first appearance for both Celtic All-Stars in the event, and Brown’s first All-Star game overall.
For the unfamiliar, each competitor will have 70 seconds to shoot as many of the 27 balls as they can, with a maximum score of 40 points in a round possible.
The three participants with the highest scores in the first round will move on to the championship round, where the contestant with the highest score at the end of the round will win.
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