One of the highlights of the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend will be All-Star Saturday Night, which takes place at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and begins at 8 p.m. ET with the Kia Skills Challenge. A trio of three-man teams will participate, with one consisting of players from the host Indiana Pacers. Also taking part will be Team Top Picks and Team All-Stars. The Skills Challenge will get underway with a five-event team relay and be followed by a team passing event and a team shooting exercise. If a tiebreaker is needed, there will be a half-court shooting contest. 

Team Pacers, featuring Tyrese Haliburton, Bennedict Mathurin and Myles Turner, is listed as the +140 (risk $100 to win $140) favorite. Team All-Stars, with Toronto's Scottie Barnes, Philadelphia's Tyrese Maxey and Atlanta's Trae Young, is priced at +150, while Team Top Picks which features Orlando's Paolo Banchero, Minnesota's Anthony Edwards and San Antonio's Victor Wembanyama, is listed at +200.

Before you lock in any 2024 NBA Skills Challenge picks, you'll want to see what SportsLine's NBA expert Mike Barner has to say.

A respected NBA Fantasy expert, both season-long and daily, Barner's work has appeared in Sports Illustrated and on Yahoo, RotoWire and KFFL. He's also been featured on ESPN Radio. Barner digs deep into the data, examining team trends and projecting game outcomes.

Barner's expertise has been on full display over a wide sample. Over the past four seasons at SportsLine, Mike went 462-397 against the spread, returning $2,509 to $100 bettors. He enters All-Star Weekend on a 15-5 roll on all NBA picks, returning more than $800. He also has an incredible feel for NBA All-Star Weekend. In 2022, Barner correctly picked Team Cavs to win the Skills Challenge. Anybody who followed his picks saw some HUGE returns.

Now Barner has analyzed the 2024 NBA Skills Challenge from all angles and is delivering his picks for SportsLine. We can tell you Barner is fading Team Top Picks, since several of its members have not fared as well in the shooting department than players on the other squads.

Instead, Barner has found a critical X-factor that makes one team a must-back! You ABSOLUTELY need to see his analysis before locking in any picks of your own.

So who wins the 2024 NBA Skills Challenge, and which critical X-factor team gives one team a HUGE edge? ... Join SportsLine right now to get Saturday's 2024 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge pick, all from the SportsLine expert who is up more than $2,500 on NBA picks the past four seasons!