The Degree Shooting Stars competition was a National Basketball Association All-Star Weekend contest held on the Saturday before the All-Star Game.
 It involved a current NBA player, a WNBA player, and a retired NBA player competing together in a shooting competition.
 From 2004 to 2012, players represented their teams' cities.
 Starting in 2013, the NBA player chose both a WNBA player and the retired player to compete on his team.
 The competition itself was time based, involving shooting from four locations of increasing difficulty and making all four shots in sequential order.
 The first shot was a 10-ft bank shot from the right angle, the second was straight-on jump shot from the top of the key, the third was an NBA three-point shot from the left angle and the fourth is a half-court shot.
 There was a two-minute time limit for each attempt and the top two times advanced to a head-to-head final round.
 The event was held each All-Star Weekend from 2003–04.
 In 2007–08, Team San Antonio became the event's first two-time winner.
 Detroit followed suit in 2008–09 with their second title.
 In 2005–06, Team San Antonio set the course record with 25.1 seconds.
 In 2010-11, Team Atlanta became the first team to win the event with a time over one minute.
 From 2013-15, Team Bosh became the first back-to-back and three time winner.
 Starting with the 2016 NBA All-Star Game, the contest has been retired and removed from All Star Weekend.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul (born May 6, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He has won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, an NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, two Olympic gold medals, and led the NBA in assists four times and steals six times.
 He has also been selected to nine NBA All-Star teams, eight All-NBA teams, and nine NBA All-Defensive teams.
Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball player who is currently the analyst on "Inside the NBA".
 Nicknamed "Chuck", "Sir Charles", and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's dominant power forwards.
 An All-American center at Auburn, he was drafted as a junior by the Philadelphia 76ers with the 5th pick of the 1984 NBA draft.
 He was selected to the All-NBA First Team five times, the All-NBA Second Team five times, and once to the All-NBA Third Team.
 He earned eleven NBA All-Star Game appearances and was named the All-Star MVP in 1991.
 In 1993, he was voted the league's Most Valuable Player and during the NBA's 50th anniversary, named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
 He competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games and won two gold medals as a member of the United States' "Dream Team".
 Barkley is a two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2006 for his individual career, and in 2010 as a member of the "Dream Team".
The 1997 NBA All-Star Game was the 47th edition of the All-Star Game and commemorated the 50th anniversary of NBA.
 The game was played on February 9, 1997, at Gund Arena (now known as Quicken Loans Arena) in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
 The winner of the MVP award was Glen Rice of the Charlotte Hornets who played 25 minutes and scored 26 points while breaking two records in the process, 20 points in the third quarter and 24 points in the second half.
 Rice's 20 points in the period broke Hal Greer's record (19), set in 1968.
 Rice's 24 points in a half surpassed the previous mark of 23, owned by Wilt Chamberlain and Tom Chambers.
 Michael Jordan's 14 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists were the first and, until the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, the only triple-double in NBA All-Star Game history (LeBron James (2011), Dwyane Wade (2012), and Kevin Durant (2017) have also achieved this).
 Five players (Charles Barkley, Alonzo Mourning, Patrick Ewing, Clyde Drexler, Shaquille O’Neal) who were voted or selected for the team opted out due to injury, opening the doors for the annually neglected and the new stars—Joe Dumars, Detlef Schrempf, Chris Webber, Chris Gatling and 20-year-old second-year man Kevin Garnett took their spots.
Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He has won an NBA championship, an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two Olympic gold medals.
 Durant has also been selected to seven All-NBA teams and eight NBA All-Star teams.
Deron Michael Williams ( ; born June 26, 1984) is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent.
 He played college basketball for the University of Illinois before being drafted third overall in the 2005 NBA draft by the Utah Jazz.
 The three-time NBA All-Star has also played for Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League during the 2011 NBA lockout, and was a gold medal winner on the United States national team at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Kevin O'Connor is the former General Manager and current Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations of the Utah Jazz.
 He took part in the drafting of Deron Williams in the 2005 Draft.
 He is said to have learned how to develop character profiles in players from Frank Layden, his predecessor as General Manager.
 O'Connor stepped down as General Manager in 2012, and the team hired former San Antonio Spurs executive Dennis Lindsey to assume the position.
The 2016 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 14, 2016.
 It was the 65th NBA All-Star Game.
 The Western Conference won 196–173 over the Eastern Conference, and Russell Westbrook was named the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP).
 It was held at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, home of the Toronto Raptors.
 The Raptors were awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement on September 30, 2013.
 This was the first time that the game was held outside the United States.
 TSN and Sportsnet televised the game nationally in Canada, while TNT and TBS televised the game nationally in the United States.
 This was also the 18th and final All-Star Game in which Kobe Bryant participated, as a result of his retirement after the 2015–16 season.
The NBA All-Star H–O–R–S–E Competition (also called the NBA All–Star G–E–I–C–O Competition because of its sponsor, Geico Insurance) was a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest which began at the 2009 NBA All–Star Weekend in Phoenix, Arizona, and only lasted for two years.
 It was canceled from the All-Star festivities prior to the 2011 weekend.
 The contest had been held on the Saturday night prior to the All-Star Game.
 The NBA had held H–O–R–S–E competitions during the .
 Throughout that season, CBS broadcast NBA games during the regular season and the playoffs.
 The host was Don Criqui and the NBA official was retired referee Mendy Rudolph.
 There were a total of 32 players and the finals had a match up of Pete Maravich verse Paul Westphal.
 Maravich was injured and replaced by Rick Barry who lost to Westphal.
 During halftime of those games, they showed a pre-taped H–O–R–S–E tournament pitting players from the NBA against each other.
 It featured, among others, Pete Maravich, Bob McAdoo, Kevin Grevey, and George Gervin.
 There was also a Battle of the Sexes match where Karen Logan, a female, beat Jerry West in 1975 and was matched against Oscar Robertson where she took a 7-0 lead.
 Her claim was that they changed the rules and she lost 10-8.
The 1951 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on March 2, 1951, at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, home of the Boston Celtics.
 The game was the first edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 1950–51 NBA season.
 The idea of holding an All-Star Game was conceived during a meeting between NBA President Maurice Podoloff, NBA publicity director Haskell Cohen and Boston Celtics owner Walter A. Brown.
 At that time, the basketball world had just been stunned by the college basketball point-shaving scandal.
 In order to regain public attention to the league, Cohen suggested the league to host an exhibition game featuring the league's best players, similar to the Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.
 Although most people, including Podoloff, were pessimistic about the idea, Brown remained confident that it would be a success.
 He even offered to host the game and to cover all the expenses or potential losses incurred from the game.
 The Eastern All-Stars team defeated the Western All-Stars team 111–94.
 Boston Celtics' Ed Macauley was named as the first NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.
 The game became a success, drawing an attendance of 10,094, much higher than that season's average attendance of 3,500.

Question: The person Kevin O'Connor drafted in 2005 was an NBA All-Star how many times?
Answer: three-time