TSN takes it to the rack as a trio of Toronto Raptors and many of basketballs brightest stars touch down in New Orleans this weekend for the leagues annual showcase of skill, speed, and slam dunks during NBA All-Star Weekend, live on TSN and TSN2 from Feb. 14-16. Coverage begins this Friday at 9pm et/6pm pt on TSN2 with the NBA Rising Stars Challenge, featuring the leagues best rookie and sophomore players – including Canadian rookie Kelly Olynyk of Kamloops, B.C. and Toronto Raptors second-year forward Jonas Valanciunas. The action continues Saturday at 8pm et/5pm pt on TSN2 with NBA All-Star Saturday Night during a test of skill and showmanship throughout four All-Star Skills Competitions – Shooting Stars, Skills Challenge with Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan, Three-Point Contest, and the fan-favourite Slam Dunk competition with Toronto Raptors forward Terrence Ross looking to defend his title. Before the competition gets underway, Cabral Cabbie Richards primes fans for the event during the 2013 NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Rewind Featuring Terrence Ross at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt, as Cabbie and Ross review his Slam Dunk win in 2013 – his rookie year. Wrapping up the weekend is the highly-anticipated NBA All-Star Game on Sunday at 7pm et/4pm pt on TSN, with top vote-getter and last years NBA MVP LeBron James leading the Eastern Conference against a Western Conference squad headed by perennial all-star Kevin Durant. Toronto Raptors will be represented by guard DeMar DeRozan, making his NBA All-Star Game debut. SportsCentres Matthew Scianitti is on site in New Orleans filing reports throughout NBA All-Star Weekend. He is joined by TSN basketball analyst Sam Mitchell, who provides insight and analysis throughout the weekend. 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But an eagle on the par-5 sixth helped move him back up the leaderboard.A strong northerly (wind) from the get-go was always going to make it tough, Scott said. I played pretty well but didnt take any of my chances. Im a little behind the eight-ball at the moment but its nothing a good round tomorrow wont fix.Australians Michael Wright, Stephen Allan, Steven Bowditch and amateur Todd Sinnott shot 67s to share the lead.Bowditch, who won the Texas Open in March for his first U.S. PGA Tour win, had the outright lead until making bogey on his last hole.I knew Ive been playing OK, saaid Bowditch, who also finished second in last months Frys.ddddddddddddom Open. Ive been a bit sort of up and down with my putting but my game itself seems to be pretty consistent over the last sort of two years.Geoff Ogilvy shot 69 and was in a group tied for seventh with American Kyle Stanley. Americans Zac Blair (70) and Boo Weekley (72) were just behind them.Ogilvy, who grew up in Melbourne and knows all about the vagaries of the citys weather, said he was prepared for a challenging day.Thats about as tough as Melbourne can provide weather-wise, he said. The early tee time, you see the forecast last night, northerly, youre like hopefully it doesnt start picking up and we get a few holes without it coming, but it was windy from the first hole. But I hit the ball better and better as the day went on.Wright said it was like the wild west but the wind suited his game, with back-to-back birdies on the eighth and ninth holes.It was brutal out there, the 40-year-old Brisbane golfer said. I hit the ball underground, really low, so its suits me to a tee. ' ' '