{"id":547609,"date":"2026-01-19T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547609\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:30:15","slug":"bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-earns-starting-spot-in-2026-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/547609\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks\u2019 Giannis Antetokounmpo earns starting spot in 2026 NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tGiannis Antetokounmpo will start the 2026 NBA All-Star Game, giving the Milwaukee Bucks forward a 10th straight All-Star selection and start, the longest active streak in the NBA in both categories.Antetokounmpo, in his 13th NBA season, is averaging 28.8 points, 9.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists through 27 games while shooting a career-best 64.7% from the field.He passed 21,000 career points on Nov. 29 in Milwaukee\u2019s 116-99 win over Brooklyn.  Antetokounmpo also moved into the NBA lead this season for games with at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and five assists on Jan. 2, recording the 158th such game of his career to break a tie with Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.Antetokounmpo was selected as an Eastern Conference starter along with Jaylen Brown (Boston), Jalen Brunson (New York), Cade Cunningham (Detroit) and Tyrese Maxey (Philadelphia). Western Conference starters are Stephen Curry (Golden State), Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (Los Angeles Lakers), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City), Nikola Joki\u0107 (Denver) and Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio). The 75th All-Star Game is set for Feb. 15 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles and will use a United States vs. World format.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMILWAUKEE \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo will start the 2026 NBA All-Star Game, giving the Milwaukee Bucks forward a 10th straight All-Star selection and start, the longest active streak in the NBA in both categories.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo, in his 13th NBA season, is averaging 28.8 points, 9.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists through 27 games while shooting a career-best 64.7% from the field.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>He passed 21,000 career points on Nov. 29 in Milwaukee\u2019s 116-99 win over Brooklyn.  Antetokounmpo also moved into the NBA lead this season for games with at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and five assists on Jan. 2, recording the 158th such game of his career to break a tie with Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo was selected as an Eastern Conference starter along with Jaylen Brown (Boston), Jalen Brunson (New York), Cade Cunningham (Detroit) and Tyrese Maxey (Philadelphia). Western Conference starters are Stephen Curry (Golden State), Luka Don\u010di\u0107 (Los Angeles Lakers), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City), Nikola Joki\u0107 (Denver) and Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio). <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 75th All-Star Game is set for Feb. 15 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles and will use a United States vs. World format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo will start the 2026 NBA All-Star Game, giving the Milwaukee Bucks forward a 10th straight All-Star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2516,108,5061,7,22313,103,909,62433,296,75204,107,123,11029,251,150,102,121,6,7218,1136,20248,3039,14292,573,1980],"class_list":["post-547609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-all-star-game","tag-antetokounmpo","tag-assist","tag-basketball","tag-buck","tag-bucks","tag-cade-cunningham","tag-career-point","tag-detroit","tag-eastern-conference-starter","tag-giannis","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-intuit-dome","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-nba","tag-nba-all-star-game","tag-new-york","tag-oscar-robertson","tag-rebound","tag-spot","tag-stephen-curry","tag-wisconsin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115924135152948828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547609","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=547609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}