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.
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 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.
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.
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.
