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NEW YORK – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association today announced a new format for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game in the San Francisco Bay Area. The reimagined event will take place on Sunday, February 16 at Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors, and will air at 8:00 p.m. ET on TNT.

For the first time, the NBA All-Star Game will feature a four-team, three-game mini-tournament. Two teams meet in one semifinal (Game 1) and the remaining two teams meet in the other semifinal (Game 2). The winning teams from Game 1 and Game 2 will compete against each other in the Championship (Game 3). In each game, the first team to reach or exceed 40 points wins.

Each team consists of eight players and is named after a TNT NBA analyst. The 24 NBA All-Star selections will be divided evenly into three teams, with rosters constructed by TNT’s Inside the NBA commentators and volunteer team general managers Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith. The three analysts will make their respective selections Team Charles, Team Shaq And Team Kenny live on TNT in the NBA All-Star Draft, which will be conducted on Thursday, February 6, just before the network’s doubleheader that evening.

The fourth team will be the winning team of the Castrol Rising Stars Championship Game, the annual showcase of the NBA’s best first- and second-year players and NBA G League standouts, held on Friday, February 14, during NBA All will star in 2025. TNT analyst and WNBA legend Candace Parker will serve as honorary GM of the Rising Stars champion, known as Team Candace.

The voting process to determine the 24 NBA All-Stars remains the same. The five players honored as starters in each conference are selected by fans (50% of the vote), current NBA players (25%) and a media panel (25%). The seven players honored as reserves in each conference are selected by NBA head coaches. For more information on NBA All-Star voting, see below.

The four NBA All-Star Game head coaches will be drawn from the coaching staffs of the teams with the best regular season record in each conference in games on Sunday, February 2nd. The head coach of the leading team in the Eastern Conference and the head coach of the leading team in the Western Conference will each coach an NBA All-Star team. An assistant coach from one of these teams will serve as head coach of the Castrol Rising Stars champions, and an assistant coach from the other team will coach the remaining All-Star team.

The four teams participating in the NBA All-Star Game will compete for a prize pool of $1.8 million, with each player on the championship-winning team receiving $125,000 and each player on the second-place team receiving $50,000 -Dollars and each player on the third-place team. and fourth-place teams receive $25,000.

NBA All-Star Voting

NBA All-Star Voting presented by AT&Tthe NBA’s official 5G wireless network, begins Thursday, December 19th at 10 a.m. ET and ends Monday, January 20th at 11:59 p.m. ET, giving fans the opportunity to root for the NBA All-Star to vote for game starters via the NBA app and NBA.com using their NBA ID.

NBA ID, which offers fans benefits and rewards from the league and its partners, is free to join here. Voters in the United States will automatically be entered into AT&T’s NBA ID All-Star Voting Sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip to the San Francisco Bay Area for NBA All-Star 2025.

During the voting period, NBA ID members may submit a complete ballot each day through the NBA app and the NBA.com voting site (NBA.com/vote). A full roster includes three frontcourt players and two guards from both the Eastern Conference and Western Conference. All current NBA players are available to choose from.

During six special “3-on-1 days,” NBA ID members’ votes count three times. These days occur from 12:01 a.m. ET to 11:59 p.m. ET: Saturday, December 21st, Wednesday, December 25th, Friday, January 3rd, Friday, January 10th, Friday, January 17th, and Monday, January 20th . January (the last day of voting).

Fan Vote updates will be posted on the first three Thursdays of January (January 2, 9, and 16). TNT will announce the NBA All-Star Game starters on Thursday, January 23rd and reserve players on Thursday, January 30th.

Current NBA players and a media panel will continue to work with fans to select starters for the NBA All-Star Game. Each player and media member may cast a complete ballot during the voting period.

After all votes for the NBA All-Star Game starters are counted, players in each conference will be ranked by position (guard and frontcourt) within each of three voting groups – fan votes, player votes and media votes . Each player’s score is calculated by averaging their weighted rank from fan, player and media votes. The two guards and three frontcourt players with the highest points in each conference will be named NBA All-Star Game starters. The fan voting serves as a decision-making process for players in a position group with the same score.