The NBA All-Star Recreation has a historical past of tinkering with the format. The league did away with the normal Japanese Convention vs. Western Convention recreation in 2017, as an alternative opting to do an All-Star draft with the main vote-getters. In 2020, the NBA modified the tip of the All-Star Recreation from a operating clock to a goal rating. These alternations proved a number of years of enjoyable, however the effort in final 12 months’s NBA All-Star Recreation was so pathetic that the league has now introduced its boldest adjustments but to the mid-season showcase of the league’s finest gamers.
The 2025 NBA All-Star Recreation format has been utterly revamped. It’s now a four-team match with video games as much as 40 factors. The league’s 24 All-Stars have been break up into three eight-man groups, and the fourth workforce would be the winner of Friday’s Rising Stars problem. The 2 successful groups will play for the All-Star Recreation championship, which is a humorous phrase to contemplate. All of it goes down Sunday, Feb. 16 from the Chase Heart in San Francisco.
The NBA stored All-Star voting the identical because it has been, with the starters being chosen frmo every convention by way of the fan vote (50 %), gamers vote (25 %), and media vote (25 %). The coaches chosen the All-Star reserves to fill out the 12-man rosters within the East and West. TNT’s ‘Contained in the NBA’ crew of Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith then every drafted eight-man rosters that may compete within the All-Star Recreation match.
Right here’s how the 2025 NBA All-Star Recreation match goes to work, plus the rosters for the three groups drafted by the TNT crew.
2025 NBA All-Star Recreation match format and prize pool, defined
The 24 NBA All-Stars have been put right into a pool and drafted onto three groups by Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith. These three groups will be a part of the winner of the Rising Stars Problem video games, that includes rookies and sophomores, for the All-Star Recreation championship.
NBA All-Star Recreation match video games are performed as much as 40 factors, with the sport ending when one workforce reaches or surpasses that quantity.
The gamers are enjoying for cash. Per NBA.com, every participant on the championship-winning workforce will obtain $125k, gamers on the second-place workforce every get $50K, and playesr on the third- and fourth-place groups obtain $25K.
2025 NBA All-Star Recreation match groups and rosters
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Shaq’s OGs
Kenny’s Younger Stars
Chuck’s World Stars
- Nikola Jokić (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)
NBA All-Star Recreation 2025 date, begin time, TV information, and extra
Date: Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025
Location: Chase Heart in San Francisco
Begin time: 7 p.m.
TV and streaming: TNT
