The NBA All-Stars have been selected. Next up: Assigning them to teams.
Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell shoots over Milwaukee Bucks guard AJ Green, left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, in Cleveland. were revealed Thursday — and now, those 24 players will be drafted onto eight-player teams for the games that will be played on Feb. 16 in San Francisco.
TNT analysts and basketball greats Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith will draft the teams on Feb. 6. The eight-player teams will bear their names — Team Shaq, Team Charles and Team Kenny.— Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley and Darius Garland of the Cleveland Cavaliers— Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks— Jaren Jackson Jr. of the Memphis GrizzliesThe games will be fast. Games are to 40 points; first one to reach that total wins.
But the starter and reserve columns won’t mean much on game night, since there will be 15 different players starting — five from each of the three teams — and only nine players coming off the bench in those semifinal games.The Rising Stars event winner — that tournament will be held Feb. 14, another four-team event made up of first- and second-year players — will be the fourth team in the All-Star games on Feb. 16. That team will be called Team Candace, for Candace Parker.
Cleveland and Oklahoma City are sending their staffs to the game because those are the teams with the best records in the Eastern and Western Conferences.Each player on the All-Star champion team gets $125,000, each player on the runner-up team will get $50,000 and the players on the teams eliminated in the semifinals will each get $25,000.Summit County Sheriff’s deputy kills Stow mother of 5 in Meadowlark Trail murder-suicideJohnson’s 20 lead Akron past Kent State 85-71WATCH: “I’m a soldier.
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