NBA All-Star Weekend is formally upon us for 2025 as basketball’s largest and brightest stars head to the Bay Space.
The motion started on Friday with the annual All-Star Superstar Sport going down at Oakland Area and the Castrol Rising Stars contest at Chase Middle that noticed the most effective first- and second-year gamers and NBA G League stars take centre stage.
The NBA HBCU Basic win by Tuskegee College over Morehouse School was then adopted by the all the time well-liked All-Star Saturday night time, which featured the Orlando Magic’s Mac McClung attaining a historic Slam Dunk Contest three-peat, with success within the Three-Level Contest and Expertise Problem for the Miami Warmth’s Tyler Herro and Cleveland Cavaliers duo Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley respectively.
It’s all constructing as much as Sunday night time and the All-Star sport itself, which this yr has been refreshed with a wholly new format.
When is the NBA All-Star Sport?
This yr’s NBA All-Star Sport occasion takes place tonight on Sunday February 16, 2025 at Chase Middle in San Francisco, California – residence of the Golden State Warriors.
NBA All-Star sport begin time
The occasion begins at 8pm ET, which is 5pm native time (PT) and 1am GMT within the UK within the early hours of Monday morning.
How one can watch the NBA All-Star Sport
TV channel: Within the UK, the NBA All-Star Sport occasion is being televised stay on TNT Sports activities 1, with preview protection starting at 11pm GMT on Sunday night time.
Stay stream: TNT Sports activities subscribers can even catch the motion stay on-line by way of the Discovery+ app or web site. These with an NBA League Move subscription can even watch it there and by way of the NBA app.
How does the brand new NBA All-Star Sport format work?
Historically, the NBA All-Star Sport pitted a staff made up of the Japanese Convention’s largest stars towards that of the Western Convention, with participant involvement decided by a technique of fan voting all through the season.
The East defeated the West 211-186 in a record-breaking contest in Indianapolis 12 months in the past, however this yr the league have determined to revamp the format utterly.
Now one sport has turn into a mini-tournament for 2025, with three groups drafted by normal managers – and pundits on TNT’s beloved Contained in the NBA programme – Charles ‘Chuck’ Barkley, Shaquille ‘Shaq’ O’Neal and Kenny Smith, and a fourth staff beneath WNBA icon Candace Parker being the winners of the Rising Stars occasion on Friday.
The 24-strong pool of All-Star gamers for the draft carried out final month was determined by a mixture of fan voting (to determine the starters), present NBA gamers and the media, whereas the pinnacle coaches of the franchises at the moment main the respective NBA conferences – the Cavaliers’ Kenny Atkinson and Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder’s Mark Daigneault – will take a staff every on the night time, together with two of their assistants.
There will probably be two semi-finals with a complete prize pool of $1.8million up for grabs, with the primary staff to achieve or surpass 40 factors in every sport going by way of to the championship showdown, the place the identical applies.
NBA All-Star Sport bracket
Semi-final one: Kenny’s Younger Stars vs Chuck’s International Stars
Semi-final two: Shaq’s OGs vs Candace’s Rising Stars
Ultimate: Winner of semi-final one vs winner of semi-final two
NBA All-Star Sport rosters
LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers)
Steph Curry (Golden State Warriors)
Kyrie Irving (Dallas Mavericks)*
Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics)
Kevin Durant (Phoenix Suns)
Damian Lillard (Milwaukee Bucks)
James Harden (Los Angeles Clippers)
Jaylen Brown (Boston Celtics)
*changing injured Dallas Mavericks team-mate Anthony Davis
Staff Kenny (Kenny’s Younger Stars)
Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves)
Jalen Brunson (New York Knicks)
Jaren Jackson Jr (Memphis Grizzlies)
Jalen Williams (Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder)
Darius Garland (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Evan Mobley (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons)
Staff Chuck (Chuck’s International Stars)
Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets)
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder)
Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs)
Pascal Siakam (Indiana Pacers)
Alperen Sengun (Houston Rockets)
Karl-Anthony Cities (New York Knicks)
Donovan Mitchell (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Trae Younger (Atlanta Hawks)*
*changing injured Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo
Staff Candace (Candace’s Rising Stars)
Stephon Citadel (San Antonio Spurs)
Dalton Knecht (Los Angeles Lakers)
Jaylen Wells (Memphis Grizzlies)
Keyonte George (Utah Jazz)
Zach Edey (Memphis Grizzlies)
Trayce Jackson-Davis (Golden State Warriors)
