“Chris Paul Was Actually Shooting”: Draymond Green Discloses How Victor Wembanyama Came Up With Skills Challenge Plan

Joseph Galizia | 16/02/2025
“Chris Paul Was Actually Shooting”: Draymond Green Discloses How Victor Wembanyama Came Up With Skills Challenge Plan

No one expected the skills challenge at the 2025 NBA All-Star weekend to be filled with controversy. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what went down when Spurs stars Victor Wembanyama and Chris Paul were disqualified after taking advantage of the rules and purposefully missing shots so their team could finish with a quicker time.

Draymond Green was asked about the incident by the media shortly after the Skills Challenge was completed. The four-time NBA Champion came to the defense of Wembanyama, stating that he saw The Alien asking numerous exec officials if the tactic was legal.

“So he asked. Now he may not have asked the right people,” Green said with a laugh. “But I will say in Wemby’s defense, he did ask a lot of people. I heard him ask maybe five or six people.”

 

So Wembanyama was the culprit. A few, including one reporter who was interviewing Green, assumed that Paul was the one who came up with the idea. Green later confirmed that it was indeed a “Wemby decision,” and that he even gave himself away during practice.

“When we was practicing, Wemby practice it a couple of times just throwing them. And C (Paul) was actually shooting. The old man followed the rookie right off the cliff.”

The irony of the situation is not lost. Wemby was actually mad at Anthony Edwards for not taking the Skills Challenge seriously enough in 2024. Ant-Man infamously only shot the ball with his left hand. Yet here Wemby is on All-Star weekend making headlines for cheating the system and getting disqualified. Oh, how the tables have turned.

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Joseph Galizia

Joseph is a Las Vegas based actor and circus performer. For the last seven years he's had the pleasure of covering sports for multiple outlets, including the Lifestyles section of Sports Illustrated. In that time, he's conducted over 50 interviews with athletes, filmmakers, and company founders to further cement his footprint in the journalism world. He's excited to bring that skillset to the SportsRush, where he'll be covering the NBA news cycle.

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