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Teenager wins ‘life-changing’ $100K by beating Damian Lillard in viral NBA 3-point contest

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There weren’t many memorable shots in the NBA’s poorly received new All-Star Game format, but one college student managed to outdo Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks to win a six-figure prize Sunday. Jaren Barajas, a freshman at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, Calif., went up against Lillard in the MrBeast $100,000 Challenge. Barajas, 18, was tasked with hitting one shot from the logo beyond the 3-point line at the Chase Center in San Francisco before Lillard could hit three. During the timed competition that was capped at three minutes,...

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