Size matters: Warriors' Draymond Green 'guarantees' improbable win in Skills Challenge
The NBA's Skills Challenge is a relatively new event that typically tests the league's smallest and quickest players on how fast they can pass and dribble their way through an obstacle course.
It's at risk of being a mundane event, the overlooked appetizer before fans get to feast on the Three-Point Shootout and Slam-Dunk Contest. But this year's competition features several big guys who should make things a whole lot more interesting -- you know, since they're big guys.
Don't tell them they're at a disadvantage, though. Draymond Green, Anthony Davis, Karl-Anthony Towns and DeMarcus Cousins all spend a majority of their time toggling between power forward and center, but that doesn't mean they lack for confidence:
Joining those four bigs are four of the speediest guards in the game: Jordan Clarkson, C.J. McCollum, Isaiah Thomas and Emmanuel Mudiay.
When asked if he was surprised by big men being involved in the competition, Kevin Durant didn't even blink. "I didn't think too much about it. Those big guys can pass, they can dribble. That's the way our game is going now so I think they belong ... it should be a fun, fun contest, and definitely different from what we've seen in the past, so we'll see what happens."
