The 2025 NBA All-Star Championship will be an All-starsingle-elimination basketball tournament played on February 16, 2025, during the National Basketball Association's 2024–25 season. It will be the 74th edition of the NBA All-Star Game. It will be hosted by the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center. It will be the fourth time the Warriors will host the game and the first time since 2000, when the NBA All-Star game was played at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California. The Warriors also hosted the game in 1960, as the Philadelphia Warriors at the Convention Hall in Philadelphia and in 1967, as the San Francisco Warriors at the Cow Palace in Daly City.[1] This will be the first time that the NBA All-Star Game will be held in San Francisco. The All-Star Game will be televised nationally by TNT for the 23rd and final consecutive year, before returning to NBC (which aired the game for 11 years prior to TNT taking over coverage) in the next season.
The All-Star Championship itself will consist of a four-team single-elimination tournament as two semifinals and a championship game, similar to the most recent NHL All-Star Games and Rising Stars Challenges. Three teams will be drafted from a pool of twenty-four selected all-stars by NBA on TNT analysts Shaquille O'Neal, Kenny Smith, and Charles Barkley, while Candace Parker, also a TNT analyst, will manage the winning team from the Rising Stars Challenge (which has used a four-team tournament since 2022).
The Chase Center in San Francisco was announced to host the All-Star Game on November 6, 2023, at a press conference held by the Golden State Warriors. In attendance at the announcement were NBA commissionerAdam Silver, Warriors Co-Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Joe Lacob, Warriors Co-Executive Chairman Peter Guber, Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Brandon Schneider, and San Francisco Mayor London Breed.[2]
On December 17, 2024, the NBA announced that the All-Star Game would utilize a four-team tournament format with a championship, similar to the format used by the Rising Stars Challenge since 2022. Each of the teams will consist of 8 players, with the traditional pool of selected all-stars drafted for the first three teams by NBA on TNT analysts Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal and Kenny Smith (who will be honorary general managers of each team, to be known as Team Chuck, Team Shaq, and Team Kenny, respectively). The fourth team in the tournament will be the winner of the Rising Stars Challenge, with their honorary general manager being Candace Parker (and therefore known as Team Candace). The head coaches for each team will be chosen from the coaching staffs of the teams with the best regular season records in each conference, based on games played through February 2, 2025. The head coach of the top team in each conference will coach one of the All-Star teams, while their assistant coach will coach either the remaining All-Star team or the Rising Stars winner. The winner of each game will be the first team to score 40 points.[3][4]
Mark Daigneault, head coach of Western Conference leader Oklahoma City Thunder, earned a coaching spot on January 19.[5]Kenny Atkinson, head coach of Eastern Conference leader Cleveland Cavaliers, earned a coaching spot on January 23.[6] One assistant coach each from the Cavaliers and Thunder will fill the two remaining coaching spots.
As had been the case in previous years, the rosters for the All-Star Game were selected through a voting process. The fans could vote through the NBA website as well as through their Google account. The starters were chosen by the fans, media, and current NBA players. Fans made up 50% of the vote, and NBA players and media each comprised 25% of the vote. The two guards and three frontcourt players who received the highest cumulative vote totals in each conference were named the All-Star starters and two players in each conferences with the highest votes were named team captains. NBA head coaches voted for the reserves for their respective conferences, none of which could be players from their own team. Each coach selected two guards, three frontcourt players and two wild cards, with each selected player ranked in order of preference within each category. If a multi-position player was to be selected, coaches were encouraged to vote for the player at the position that was "most advantageous for the All-Star team", regardless of where the player was listed on the All-Star ballot or the position he was listed in box scores.[7]
^NOTE1 After being announced as an All-Star, Anthony Davis was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Dallas Mavericks.[12] ^INJ1 Giannis Antetokounmpo was unable to play due to a leg injury.[13] ^REP1 Trae Young was selected as Giannis Antetokounmpo's replacement.[13] ^INJ2 Anthony Davis was unable to play due to an injury.[14] ^REP2 Kyrie Irving was selected as Anthony Davis' replacement.[14]
The 2025 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game will be held on Friday, February 14, 2025, at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, California, with NFL legend Jerry Rice and MLB legend Barry Bonds serving as honorary coaches. The "Crunch Time" (each team receiving the ability to activate two minutes of double-points) and four-point line rules introduced returned.[16]