All-Star events participants have been announced, but things are different this year.

The Hawks played their first game since letting go Coach Pierce, so are they good now?

And MVP candidate Nicole Yolkic is chasing Will Chamberlain for one particular record.

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All right, so the lineups for All-Star Sunday events are here.

Everything taking place on Sunday, including the All-Star game this year.

And the three-point field is fantastic. It's

down to six from eight, but it is packed with Steph Curry, Devin Booker, Donovan Mitchell, two Celtics,

Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown, plus Zach Levine rounding out the field. We miss you, Clay Thompson,

but that is a star-studded three-point lineup.

As for the dunk contest, the names not in it are the bigger headline than the ones in it,

because Zion Williamson, Anthony Edwards, and Miles Bridges declined invites,

according to Yahoo's Chris Haines.

That would have been ridiculously good Zion.

Anthony Edwards, who had the dunk of the year and Miles Bridges, who's been throwing it down on passes from Lamello Ball.

He could have been there throwing alley-oops.

That would have been incredible.

Even Alex Caruso turned down an invite, according to Bill Oram of the athletic.

Alex Caruso, that's a shocker.

There are only three participants this year. That's down

from four. I guess they're trying to speed things up a little bit. Now, these guys can all throw down,

even though they're not big names. Nick's rookie Obie Toppin is the big man dunker of the three.

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