NBA and NBPA announce new format for 2025 NBA All-Star Game

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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 recreated event will take place on Sunday, February 16 at the Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors, and will air at 8 PM 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 semi-final (Game 1) and the remaining two teams meet in the other semi-final (Game 2). The winning teams from Game 1 and Game 2 advance to face each other in the championship (Game 3). For each game, the winner will be the first team to reach or exceed 40 points.

Each team will have eight players and be named after a TNT NBA analyst. The 24 NBA All-Star selections will be split evenly among three teams, with rosters compiled by TNT’s Inside the NBA commentators and honorary team general managers Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith. The three analysts will make their respective picks for Team Charles, Team Shaq and Team Kenny live on TNT in the NBA All-Star Draft, which will be conducted on Thursday, Feb. 6, right before the network’s doubleheader that night.

The fourth team will be the winning team from the Castrol Rising Stars championship game, the annual showcase of top first- and second-year NBA players and NBA G League standouts, which will be played on Friday, February 14 during NBA All-Star 2025. TNT analyst and WNBA legend Candace Parker will serve as the honorary GM of the Rising Stars champion, known as Team Candace.

The voting process to determine the 24 NBA All-Stars will remain the same. The five players honored as starters in each conference will be 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 will be selected by NBA head coaches. See below for more information on NBA All-Star voting.

The four NBA All-Star Game head coaches come from the coaching staffs of the teams with the best regular season record in each conference through games played on Sunday, February 2. The head coach of the leading Eastern Conference team and the head coach of the leading Western Conference team will each coach an NBA All-Star team. An assistant coach from one of these staffs will serve as head coach for the Castrol Rising Stars champion, and an assistant coach from the other staff 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, each player on the second-place team receiving $50,000 and each player on the third-place team. and fourth-place teams receiving $25,000.

NBA All-Star voting

The NBA All-Star Poll presented by AT&T, the official 5G wireless network of the NBA, will tip on Thursday, December 19 at 10 a.m. ET and ends Monday, January 20 at 11:59 p.m. ET, giving fans the opportunity to vote for NBA All-Star Game starters via the NBA App and NBA.com with 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 be automatically entered into the NBA ID All-Star Voting Sweepstakes presented by AT&T for the chance to win a trip to the San Francisco Bay Area for the 2025 NBA All-Star.

During the voting period, NBA ID members may submit one full ballot each day via the NBA app and the NBA.com voting page (NBA.com/vote). A full ballot consists of three frontcourt players and two guards from both the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. All current NBA players will be available for selection.

On six special “3-to-1 days,” NBA ID members’ votes will count three times. These days, from 12:01 PM ET – 11:59 PM ET, will take place on Saturday, December 21, Wednesday, December 25, Friday, January 3, Friday, January 10, Friday, January 17, and Monday, 20 January (last day of voting).

Fan poll updates will be shared on the first three Thursdays in January (January 2nd, 9th, and 16th). TNT will reveal the NBA All-Star Game starters on Thursday, January 23rd and the reserves on Thursday, January 30th.

Current NBA players and a media panel will continue to join fans in selecting NBA All-Star Game starters. Each player and media member will be able to complete one full vote during the voting period.

Once all votes for NBA All-Star Game starters are tallied, players will be ranked in each conference by position (guard and frontcourt) within each of the three voting groups – fan vote, player vote and media vote. Each player’s score will be calculated by averaging his weighted rank from the fan votes, player votes and media votes. The top two guards and three frontcourt players in each conference will be named NBA All-Star Game starters. Fan voting will act as a tiebreaker for players in a position group with the same score.