The NBA announced on Thursday that Pacers guard/forward Glenn Robinson III will take part in the Verizon Slam Dunk Contest, part of State Farm All-Star Saturday Night, at the 2017 All-Star Weekend in New Orleans.
All-Star Saturday Night, which also includes the Taco Bell Skills Challenge and the Three-Point Contest, will take place at the Smoothie King Center on Saturday, Feb. 18. Television coverage will begin at 8:00 PM ET on TNT.
In his third NBA season and his second with the Pacers, Robinson is currently averaging 6.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per game. A 6-6 swingman out of Michigan, he has appeared in 46 games and started 24 for the Pacers in the 2016-17 season while shooting 45 percent from the field and 35.6 percent from 3-point range.
Robinson will be one of several Pacers players to take part in All-Star Weekend. Last week, the league announced that center Myles Turner will play in the BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge on Friday, Feb. 17 and forward Paul George will play in his fourth career All-Star Game on Sunday, Feb. 19.
Robinson will be the eighth Pacers player to take part in the Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend. Fred Jones won the event in 2004. Other Pacers players to participate in the Slam Dunk Contest include George (2012 and 2014), Gerald Green (2013), Jonathan Bender (2001), Antonio Davis (1994), Kenny Williams (1991), and Terrence Stansbury (1985 and 1986). Darnell “Dr. Dunk” Hillman won a season-long dunk contest held over the course of the 1976-77 NBA season.
More details to come.
