NBA All-Star Weekend is officially upon us for 2025 as basketball’s biggest and brightest stars head to the Bay Area. The action begins on Friday with the annual All-Star Celebrity Game taking place at Oakland Arena and the Castrol Rising Stars contest at Chase Center that sees the best first- and second-year players and NBA G League stars take centre stage. The NBA HBCU Classic between Morehouse College and Tuskegee University is then followed by the always popular All-Star Saturday night, which features signature events such as the Slam Dunk Contest, Three-Point Contest and Skills Challenge.
It is all building up to Sunday night and the All-Star game itself, which this year has been refreshed with an entirely new format. This year’s NBA All-Star Game event takes place on Sunday February 16, 2025 at Chase Center in San Francisco, California - home of the Golden State Warriors. The event begins at 8pm ET, which is 5pm local time (PT) and 1am GMT in the UK in the early hours of Monday morning.
TV channel: In the UK, the NBA All-Star Game event is being televised live on TNT Sports 1, with preview coverage beginning at 11pm GMT on Sunday night. Live stream: TNT Sports subscribers can also catch the action live online via the Discovery+ app or website. Those with an NBA League Pass subscription can also watch it there and via the NBA app. Traditionally, the NBA All-Star Game pitted a team made up of the Eastern Conference’s biggest stars against that of the Western Conference, with player involvement determined by a process of fan voting throughout the season.
The East defeated the West 211-186 in a record-breaking contest in Indianapolis 12 months ago, but this year the league have decided to revamp the format completely. Now one game has become a mini-tournament for 2025, with three teams drafted by general managers - and pundits on TNT’s beloved Inside the NBA programme - Charles ‘Chuck’ Barkley, Shaquille ‘Shaq’ O’Neal and Kenny Smith, and a fourth team under WNBA icon Candace Parker being the winners of the Rising Stars event on Friday.
The 24-strong pool of All-Star players for the draft conducted last month was decided by a combination of fan voting (to decide the starters), current NBA players and the media, while the head coaches of the franchises currently leading the respective NBA conferences - the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kenny Atkinson and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Mark Daigneault - will take a team each on the night, along with two of their assistants.
There will be two semi-finals with a total prize pool of $1.8million up for grabs, with the first team to reach or surpass 40 points in each game going through to the championship showdown, where the same applies. Semi-final one: Kenny’s Young Stars vs Chuck’s Global Stars. Semi-final two: Shaq’s OGs vs Candace’s Rising Stars. Final: Winner of semi-final one vs winner of semi-final two. 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). *replacing injured Dallas Mavericks team-mate Anthony Davis. Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolves). Jalen Brunson (New York Knicks). Jaren Jackson Jr (Memphis Grizzlies). Jalen Williams (Oklahoma City Thunder).
Darius Garland (Cleveland Cavaliers). Evan Mobley (Cleveland Cavaliers). Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons). Tyler Herro (Miami Heat). Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets). Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder). Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs). Pascal Siakam (Indiana Pacers). Alperen Sengun (Houston Rockets). Karl-Anthony Towns (New York Knicks). Donovan Mitchell (Cleveland Cavaliers). Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks)*.
