{"id":467354,"date":"2026-02-08T23:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:32:10","slug":"three-point-contest-field-announced-damian-lillard-named-all-star-weekend-reaction-injury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467354\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Point Contest field announced, Damian Lillard named, All-Star weekend, reaction, injury, news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland\u2019s Damian Lillard, who has not played all season while recovering from a torn left Achilles tendon, will return in next weekend\u2019s NBA Three-Point Contest, the league announced on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Watch NBA with ESPN on Kayo Sports | Stream an average 9 LIVE Regular Season games per week plus the best of the NBA Playoffs.| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old guard, a nine-time All-Star, was injured in last year\u2019s playoffs while with Milwaukee, then waived by the Bucks and signed by the Trail Blazers, whom he played for in his first 11 NBA campaigns. <\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lillard has already been ruled out for the entire 2025-2026 season, so his inclusion in the three-point contest comes as a surprise. <\/p>\n<p>It will be a welcome sight for Portland fans though who get to see Lillard back in Trail Blazers colours for the first time since his return.<\/p>\n<p>Lillard, who ranks fifth on the all-time NBA list with 2,804 three-point baskets, won the 2023 and 2024 Three-Point Contests and can match the record three titles of Larry Bird and Craig Hodges with a victory next Saturday in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>The competition will be part of All-Star Saturday festivities, which include the Slam Dunk Contest and Shooting Stars events,ahead of next Sunday\u2019s NBA All-Star Game. <\/p>\n<p>Also in the eight-shooter field will be Phoenix\u2019s Devin Booker, the 2018 Three-Point Contest winner, and four other 2026 NBA All-Stars \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Tyrese Maxey, Cleveland\u2019s Donovan Mitchell, Denver\u2019s Jamal Murray and Miami\u2019s Norman Powell. <\/p>\n<p>Charlotte\u2019s Kon Knueppel could become the first NBA rookie to win the event. <\/p>\n<p>He is joined by fellow Three-Point Contest newcomers Maxey, Murray and Bobby Portis Jr. of Milwaukee. <\/p>\n<p>Players have 70 seconds to shoot from beyond the arc in the first round with the three top scorers advancing to the finalround, where the highest score decides the champion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland\u2019s Damian Lillard, who has not played all season while recovering from a torn left Achilles tendon, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[2095,5888,7218,64,63,726,238989,197963,485,238991,7222,238988,800,7221,34409,481,12284,5130,4620,93338,32221,2041,2067,12274,5136,29169,7640,85,232769,238990,7642,2614,12216],"class_list":["post-467354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-playoff-series","tag-bobby-portis","tag-california","tag-craig-hodges","tag-damian-lillard","tag-eight-shooter-field","tag-espn-inc","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-larry-bird","tag-los-angeles","tag-maine","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-norman-powell","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-phoenix","tag-portland","tag-sports","tag-three-point-contest","tag-three-point-field","tag-trail-blazers","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}