The Chicago team, represented by Chicago Bulls' Ben Gordon, Chicago Sky's Candice Dupree and ex-Bull Scottie Pippen, lost tonight in the finals to the Detriot team during the Shooting Stars challenge. The Shooting Stars Contest was part of the All-Star festivities tonight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Here is a brief summary of the contest from http://aol.nba.com/allstar2007/shooting_stars/:
Team Detroit won the 2007 Haier Shooting Stars challenge by default as team Chicago took its shots out of order in the final round on Saturday. The team of Bill Laimbeer, Chauncey Billups and Swin Cash had the second-best first-round time by finishing the six-shot course in 1:06 and then needed just 50.5 seconds to complete its final-round run. Chicago had the best first-round time (48.9 seconds), followed by Detroit, defending champion San Antonio (1:32) and Los Angeles (2:00).
Like the summary said, Detriot had a time of 50.5 seconds in the finals. Chicago was doing good and then Gordon shot when Dupree was supposed to shoot. Chicago finished with a better time, but after the officials looked at the replays, it was announced that Chicago was disqualified and Detriot was named the winner. I'll forgive Gordon since it was only an All-Star contest, but Pippen, who made what would have been the winning shot, and Dupree are probably mad at him for costing them a chance at winning the $15,000 prize to the winner that goes to each player.
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