Kyle Lowry to Participate in Skills Competition; Ways to Make it Suck Less

According to a tweet (that’s how we do things now), Kyle Lowry will participate in the skills competition:

Chicago’s Jimmy Butler and Toronto’s Kyle Lowry will participate in the All-Stars Skills Challenge in New York, league sources tell RealGM.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 5, 2015

What this basically means is that he’ll be trying to throw an unobstructed bounce pass through a large spherical object, make a short jumper, dribble around some pylons, and to prove the ultimate skill, make a layup.

Here are seven ways things could be made a helluva lot more interesting in the skills competition:

1. Blindfold the players
2. Have one foot in a wooden bucket
3. Turn off the lights in the arena
4. Not have the skills competition
5. Play HORSE
6. Pick skills competition spots from non All-Stars, winner gets to play in the All-Star game
7. Have Katy Perry participate