All-Star Saturday updates: Heat’s Adebayo wins Skills Challenge. Jones Jr. wins Dunk Contest

There hasn’t been an All-Star Saturday Night quite like this for the Heat.

The Heat is represented in every All-Star event Saturday for the first time in franchise history, with Bam Adebayo taking part in the Skills Challenge, Duncan Robinson competing in the Three-Point Contest and Derrick Jones Jr. in the Slam Dunk Contest.

We’ll be updating this post with how each one does in their respective competition ...

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The night began with the Skills Challenge, and the 22-year-old Adebayo did not disappoint. The Heat’s big man won the event, defeating Indiana’s Domantas Sabonis in the championship round.

The Skills Challenge is a three-round, obstacle-course competition that tests players’ dribbling, passing, agility and three-point shooting. The field featured a mix of guards and frontcourt players, and the participants faced off in a head-to-head, bracket-style tournament format.

Matched up against Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie in the first round, Adebayo was nearly perfect. He got the chest pass through the hoop on his first attempt and then made his first three-point attempt to eliminate Dinwiddie.

In the second round, Adebayo faced Raptors forward Pascal Siakam. Adebayo made the first chest pass once again, but missed his first three-point attempt before sinking the second to eliminate Siakam and advance to the championship round.

In the final round, Adebayo again hit his first chest pass and then drilled his third three-point attempt to eliminate Sabonis and win the competition.

The only other Heat player to ever take part in the Skills Challenge is Dwyane Wade, who participated in the event three times (2006, 2007, 2008) and won it in 2006 and 2007. The first All-Star Skills Challenge was held in 2003.

Next up was the Three-Point Contest, but Robinson could not continue the Heat’s momentum. The second-year forward was eliminated in the first round of the competition, with the top three first-round scores advancing to the championship round.

Robinson, who ranks fourth in the NBA with 191 three-pointers this season, turned in a score of 19 in the first round. That was not good enough to advance, as he finished with the sixth-best first-round score among the eight participants.

Phoenix’s Devin Booker, Sacramento’s Buddy Hield and Washington’s Davis Bertans were the three to advance to the championship round. With a score of 27 in the final round, Hield won the Three-Point Contest.

The Heat has had plenty of past success in the Three-Point Contest, with Robinson going down as the eighth different Heat player to participate in the shooting event. Four different Heat players have won the competition — Glen Rice in 1995, Jason Kapono in 2007, Daequan Cook in 2009 and James Jones in 2011.

The Slam Dunk Contest capped the night, with Derrick Jones Jr. taking home the Slam Dunk crown in a competition that needed a dunk-off between Magic foward Aaron Gordon and Jones to decide the outcome.

In the two-round event, five judges scored every dunk on a scale of 6 to 10, resulting in a high score of 50 and a low score of 30. Wade was among the judges.

All four competitors get two dunks in the first round. The two players with the highest combined score for their two dunks advanced to the head-to-head final round. Both players also got two dunks in the championship round, as the player with the highest combined score for his two final dunks crowned the Slam Dunk champion.

Jones, who finished as the runner-up in the 2017 Slam Dunk Contest as a rookie with the Suns, received a score of 46 on his first dunk of the night. He missed the first attempt, but threw down the second as he jumped over the 6-9 Adebayo. Jones needed a little bit of an assist on the way up, as he slightly pushed off of Adebayo’s shoulder.

But the second dunk was clean, as Jones received a perfect score of 50 with a between-the-legs, 360-degree dunk with his left hand. With a total first-round score of 96, Jones advanced to the championship round against Gordon.

Nicknamed “Airplane Mode” for his elite leaping ability, Jones earned another perfect score for his first dunk of the final round. For this attempt, he jumped over two men and grabbed the ball in mid-air before putting it between his legs in one motion and slamming it down.

Jones also drew a perfect score on his second dunk of the final round, as he jumped over a man before taking a pass off the backboard and putting the ball between his legs all in one motion again and dunking it.

The only problem was that Gordon also received two 50s on his dunks in the final round, forcing a dunk-off to see which one would blink first.

Both Jones and Gordon also received perfect scores on their first attempt in the overtime round. That prolonged the contest even further.

Gordon was was the first to blink, as he received a score of 47 on his second attempt of the dunk-off for jumping over 7-5 Celtics center Tacko Fall and slamming it home.

Jones earned a score of 48 on his second dunk of the overtime round. For the dunk that clinched the crown, Jones took off from just past the free-throw line and windmilled it down.

Jones, who also celebrated his 23rd birthday on Saturday, is just the third Heat player to compete in the Slam Dunk Contest and the first since 1995. Harold Miner won in 1993 and 1995, and Billy Thompson participated in 1990.