Jan. 14, 2026, 2:31 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The NBA announced that Hall of Famers Carmelo Anthony, Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady will serve as honorary coaches for the Rising Stars Game as part of All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n
The annual event features four seven-player teams competing in a three-game tournament on Feb. 13 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. The two semifinal games will be played to a target score of 40, and the championship game will be played to a target score of 25.<\/p>\n
Anthony, Carter and McGrady will select their teams of rookies and sophomores in a draft set to air on Jan. 27 (7 p.m. EST, Peacock). Former 11-year veteran Austin Rivers will coach the fourth team, which will be comprised of G League players.<\/p>\n
The NBA players will be selected by assistant coaches, while the league office will choose the G League players. Teams will submit a rookie ballot and a sophomore ballot per coaching staff, featuring four frontcourt players, four guards and two additional players at either position.<\/p>\n
Last year, the player pool for the annual showcase consisted of 10 rookies, 11 second-year players and seven players from the G League.\u00a0The teams were led by assistant coaches from the All-Star Game coaching staffs — Cleveland and\u00a0Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n San Antonio Spurs<\/a> guard and 2025 NBA Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle was the unanimous MVP of the Rising Stars Game<\/a> last year in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 14, 2026, 2:31 p.m. ET The NBA announced that Hall of Famers Carmelo Anthony, Vince Carter and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72400,7,6,12,72761,72762,72404,72695,73922,72444,72422,72405,72921,72643,72406,72403],"class_list":["post-536887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-accessfree","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-sstssportsnbarookie","tag-sstsnrookie","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagcalifornia","tag-tagcarmelo-anthony","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagpeacock","tag-tagsan-antonio-spurs","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115895642834122766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}