{"id":540862,"date":"2026-01-16T15:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/540862\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:54:55","slug":"castrol-rising-stars-all-star-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/540862\/","title":{"rendered":"Castrol Rising Stars, All-Star Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2002832 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rising-Stars-Coaches-AS26-v316x9-SquareSafezone-784x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/LP2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get NBA League Pass TODAY<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/allstar\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA All-Star 2026: Complete coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A trio of Hall of Fame players are coming back for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/allstar\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All-Star Weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Carmelo Anthony, Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady will join Austin Rivers as the four honorary coaches selected for the Castrol Rising Stars mini tourney.<\/p>\n<p>NBA rookies and second-year standouts will be drafted onto three teams on January 27th, and a fourth team will be comprised of players competing in the NBA G League.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Presenting the honorary head coaches for the 2026 Castrol Rising Stars!<\/p>\n<p>NBA Rookies and Sophomores will be drafted onto three teams on Tuesday (1\/27) at 7:00pm\/et on Peacock, with NBA G League players to comprise the fourth team.<\/p>\n<p>The four teams will compete in the Castrol\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lb37AOyoHC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lb37AOyoHC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2011240741251543283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The four teams will compete in a tourney at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles at 9 p.m. ET on February 13th as part of the All-Star festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony, the 2013 NBA scoring champion, has scored more points than all but 10 players in the history of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, the 1999 NBA Rookie of the Year, played for eight teams during his exemplary 22-year career.<\/p>\n<p>McGrady led the league in scoring twice and was named the NBA\u2019s Most Improved Player in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers, the most recent player of the bunch, averaged 8.5 PPG over his 11-year career and last played in the NBA in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0Get NBA League Pass TODAY\u2022\u00a0NBA All-Star 2026: Complete coverage A trio of Hall of Fame players are coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,74378,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-540862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-castrol-rising-stars","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115905595468015081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540862","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=540862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}