Saturday of All-Star weekend has produced some of the greatest moments in sports history.

But, from a new LED court to Stephen vs. Sabrina, we’ve never really had one quite like this.

After a wild Friday tipped off NBA All-Star 2024, keep reading for what’s coming from a new-look State Farm All-Star Saturday Night — along with an exclusive interview with Sabrina Ionescu, ahead of her matchup with Curry.

THE LINEUP ⭐

1. ⭐ Rising Stars: Jalen wins it
2. 🎆 Celeb Game: Parsons puts on
3. 👀 All-Star Saturday Watch Guide
4. 🚨 Exclusive: Sabrina on tonight
5. 5️⃣ Bionic Brooks’ top 5 dunks

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver & Victor Wembanyama unveiled NB-AI, an NBA-trained voice assistant that uses AI to personalize the live-game experience.

Vince Carter, Chauncey Billups and Michael Cooper highlighted the 14 Finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2024.

Spin through Friday’s Top 10 plays right here.

Need to catch up? Head to the NBA All-Star Hub.

1. JALEN WINS IT FOR TEAM JALEN AT RISING STARS

Needing two points to reach the target score of 25, the ball was in Jalen Williams’ hands. The OKC sophomore saw the defense drop, so he pulled up from 26 feet and drained the walk-off 3-pointer to win the Panini Rising Stars for Team Jalen over Team Detlef.

Complete Highlights: Check out the best of the three-game mini tourney

Game Clinching buckets: By playing to a target score in all three games, each game would either be decided by a made basket or free throws. On Friday, it was all about game-winning shots:

• Jalen Williams: pull-up 3 from 26 feet away
• Bennedict Mathurin: fadeaway jumper over Scoot
• Matas Buzelis: turnaround baseline jumper over Brandon Miller

While the team was named after its honorary coach, former Indiana Pacer Jalen Rose, it was fitting that a Jalen was the one to score the winning bucket. Williams finished with five points and three assists in the Final, and had two points and another three dimes in Team Jalen’s semifinal win over Team Tamika.

The star of that semifinal win was Pacers second-year guard Bennedict Mathurin, who scored 18 of the 40 points needed to advance, including the game-winning bucket on a picture-perfect fadeaway jumper over Scoot Henderson. Mathurin added four points and two assists in the Final to earn MVP honors, which drew an ovation from the home Indy crowd.

In an event designed to showcase the game’s top young talent, Team Detlef’s squad of G Leaguers showed that they belonged, knocking off Team Pau, which was loaded with much of the league’s top rookie talent, including four of the top five in the Kia Rookie Ladder.

The G League squad used an 11-0 run to take control of the game early. Team Pau rallied, cutting the deficit to a single point, but Team Detlef had the ultimate answer – a game-high 12 points from Mac McClung, and a tough turnaround baseline jumper by Matas Buzelis over Brandon Miller to seal the win.

Victor Wembanyama, who arrived to his first All-Star event in style , finished with 11 points, seven rebounds and two blocks. He only had one assist, but made it count on this lob to Jaime Jaquez Jr.

2. PARSONS WINS CELEBRITY GAME MVP

Celebrities are used to performing under the bright lights.

On Friday, they performed on top of the bright lights — 25 million LEDs to be exact — as the Ruffles Celebrity Game marked the debut of the state-of-the-art LED Court at Lucas Oil Stadium for All-Star weekend.

Regardless of the lighting, NFL superstar Micah Parsons came ready to play as he dropped a Celebrity Game record 37 points to go with 16 rebounds, four steals and three assists to lead Team Shannon to a 100-91 win over Team Stephen A in a clash of ESPN First Take co-hosts.

• “A Top 5 Moment” Parsons ranked his Celebrity Game MVP performance as a top five sports moment in his career
• The Statline: The last player to put up a 37/16/4/3 NBA game was Joel Embiid in 2021. Of course, it helps to have rules like the “Ruffles 4-Point Ridgeline” and “Ruffles Crunch Time” – when all points are doubled for two minutes – to boost the numbers

Parsons attacked the basket like he does opposing offenses, but rather than finishing with sacks, he threw down thunderous dunks. But it wasn’t all power. He showed a bit of finesse, breaking out a Eurostep and a slick spin move in the lane for a bucket.

While Parsons was the star of the night, he didn’t do it by himself. Fellow NFL star Puka Nacua (16 pts) and actor Dylan Wang (18 pts) combined for 34 for Team Shannon.

Texans quarterback CJ Stroud led Team Stephen A with 31 points, while trick shot artist (and Starting 5 contributor) Tristan Jass added 27 points, 10 boards and six dimes, including the first bucket of the night.

T Jass and fellow YouTuber Kai Cenat exchanged jerseys postgame. Cenat entered the building alongside Steph Curry, but came up just short of his pregame prediction of 30-45 points with 10 dimes and 17 boards.

3. WHAT’S COMING ON SATURDAY?

Welcome to one of the biggest nights in sports.

State Farm All-Star Saturday night tips off at 8 ET on TNT, featuring some of the most iconic events on the yearly sports calendar.

New for this year? A first-time, history-writing showdown between the NBA’s all-time 3-point leader and the owner of the greatest 3-Point Contest round ever, across both the NBA & WNBA.

Also, for the first time ever, it’ll all happen on the state-of-the-art LED court at Lucas Oil Stadium.

• The Kia Skills Challenge starts things off, with Team Pacers (Tyrese Haliburton, Benedict Mathurin, Myles Turner), Team Top Picks (Paolo Banchero, Victor Wembanyama, Anthony Edwards) and Team All-Stars (Scottie Barnes, Tyrese Maxey, Trae Young) squaring off
• The Starry 3-Point Contest will see defending champ Damian Lillard look to repeat against Malik Beasley, Jalen Brunson, Tyrese Haliburton, Lauri Markkanen, Donovan Mitchell, Karl-Anthony Towns and Trae Young
• Stephen vs. Sabrina follows right after, with Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu competing in the first-ever NBA vs. WNBA 3-Point Challenge
• AT&T Slam Dunk closes the night, with defending champ Mac McClung taking on Jaylen Brown, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Jacob Toppin

But first…

• The NBA All-Stars take the court for practice and meet with media at 11 ET on NBA TV — an event that’s normally good for a few (or a few dozen) viral clips. Go behind the scenes with Dallas star rookie Dereck Lively II in the NBA App
• Virginia Union and Winston-Salem State meet in the HBCU Classic presented by AT&T on TNT, ESPN2 and NBA TV at 2 ET
• NBA Commissioner Adam Silver holds his yearly All-Star press conference at 7 ET on NBA TV and streamed live in the NBA App

Watch & follow along live all day long in the NBA App.

4. EXCLUSIVE Q&A: SABRINA, AHEAD OF TONIGHT’S SHOWDOWN WITH STEPH

With Stephen vs. Sabrina – the first-ever NBA vs. WNBA 3-Point Challenge – taking place tonight, we caught up with the 3-point contest record-holder herself, Sabrina Ionescu, to discuss the build up to the event, some trash talk, and her top five 3-point shooters ever.

What have the past few weeks been like for you since it was announced?

“It’s been a whirlwind. In just knowing how many people have supported us, and thinking about just what we’re able to accomplish and this being the first of its kind and knowing that hopefully this is going to just lay down the foundation for many more competitions to come.”

I had a bunch of players in here today, and asked all of them about the competition. Chet and Wemby specifically stood out, chose you. What does their support and support in general from the NBA mean to you?

“Well, I love that. someone picked me so shout out to Chet and Wemby. It’s been amazing. I’ve been able to watch all of the social media videos and been able to see who chose who.

“It’s been fun; I think about being able to go out there and compete. Obviously representing myself, my team and the league and him being able to do so as well, and doing that together, and being able to push the needle in terms of doing something that’s never been done is going to be really exciting.”

Those are just two off the top of my head. A lot of them picked you.

“Thank you to everyone. Yeah, I need all the votes.”

Are there any NBA players that have reached out to you that have kind of been special to you or moments like that?

“I mean, I would say, I would just say Steph, you know, obviously him being the one, we’ve been talking about this for some time.

“And so being able to finally see that our idea, that was kind of a joke, now turned into something that’s really happened is really exciting and we’ve been talking about this for some time and so we’re excited to get together and go out there and do our best.”

I heard there’s a little bit of trash talk though between you guys. What’s the insight on that?

“I mean, we go back and forth, obviously, we compete. We’ve had many competitions against one another and in closed gyms and workouts.

“And so to be able to go out there on, on the big stage and do it is something we haven’t done before. We’re excited to see who’s able to, to call himself a champion.”

You can think about this for a second. But who’s your Mount Rushmore of three point shooters? And you could combine like WNBA and NBA?

“OK. Can I put myself?

Of course.

“OK. I would say obviously Steph, Ray Allen, Diana Taurasi, me.

“Oh, and then I gotta pick one more. Reggie Miller.”

Nice. And my last question is … who’s gonna win?

“Me.”

That’s it?

“That’s it.”

Practice time: We were with Sabrina as she arrived in Indy and headed to the practice gym to simulate a round before an unexpected guest crashed the party.

5. BIONIC BROOKS’ TOP 5 DUNK CONTEST DUNKS

Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine going blow for blow. Vince Carter saying ‘it’s over,’ in front of Shaq with the camcorder.

A classic dunk traces a mark in your memory.

We asked Tor’i Brooks, aka Bionic Brooks, to share the Dunk Contest memories that hit home with him. He knows something about taking flight.

• Zach LaVine : “360 windmill, 360 between-the-legs, windmill from the free throw line – all great dunks.”
• Aaron Gordon: “Under both, over the Orlando Magic mascot (Stuff).”
• Vince Carter’s honey-dip: “A classic.”
• Mac McClung: “I think he did a 720, 540, whatever you call that. This guy has bunnies out the roof.”
• Gerald Green’s birthday candle dunk. “Underrated. You don’t understand how tough that actually is.”

Tap to spin through all 5 dunks in one place, special for the Starting 5 fam.

On a new LED court, and with defending champ Mac McClung back after an internet-shaking performance last year, what feats are in store for us tonight? Watch the 2024 AT&T Slam Dunk and find out.