The NBA All-Star Game this past weekend managed to do the impossible: heal a divided nation. People who dislike the NBA and didn’t watch the game… Hated it. People who love the NBA and watched both the skills competition and the game, Also hated it.

Lost in the universal sentiment that NBA All-Star Weekend has drastically lost its luster—and all the think pieces about how to resurrect it—was an all-time highlight.

Future face of the league and current Frenchman Victor Wembanyama partnered with his veteran Spurs teammate Chris “Hit You in the Balls” Paul to pull off a dastardly scheme: winning the Skills Competition by simply skipping the shooting portion of the challenge.

For those unaware, the Skills Competition on Saturday night is widely considered the largest “who is this for?” segment of the showcase.

The competition consists of two players performing a relay race of sorts, requiring them to make chest and bounce passes through targets, go the length of the court, and finish with a layup or dunk.

It also involves shooting two racks of balls during the race. However, it does not require you to make any of those shots. In fact, what we learned Saturday night is that it doesn’t even require you to make a good-faith attempt.

With that understanding, the French phenom cooked up a scheme to clear the racks in record time, putting down a great time to seemingly win the competition.

Until… they didn’t.

While sitting on the bench, league officials let Wemby and Paul know they would be disqualified for their performance. Victor seemed genuinely upset by this news and even shared that he had asked several officials prior to the competition about his strategy, and it had not been flagged as illegal.

And you know what? He’s right. Right underneath where it does not say a dog cannot play basketball in the rulebook, it also does not say you have to try in a meaningless, dumb competition for no prize and very little—if any—bragging rights.

I support the Spurs' Skills Competition efforts to game the system and come out on top. Because, really, on top of what exactly?

This clip was the highlight of All-Star Weekend—which probably says more about All-Star Weekend than it does about the need to reform the Skills Challenge.