U.S. vs. The World<\/a>, with three teams of at least eight players going head to head in 12-minute games. Each team is guaranteed two games in the round-robin event, with the best two meeting again in a championship game.<\/p>\nStarters previously announced<\/p>\n
The players chosen last month as starters: Milwaukee\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo, Boston\u2019s Jaylen Brown, Detroit\u2019s Cade Cunningham, Philadelphia\u2019s Tyrese Maxey, New York\u2019s Jalen Brunson, Golden State\u2019s Stephen Curry, the Lakers\u2019 Luka Doncic, Oklahoma City\u2019s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver\u2019s Nikola Jokic and San Antonio\u2019s Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n
Antetokounmpo will miss a few weeks with a calf injury, so it would seem unlikely that he plays. Silver would pick a replacement for Antetokounmpo if he pulls out.<\/p>\n
Brown, Cunningham, Maxey, Brunson and Curry would be part of the two U.S. teams. Doncic, Gilgeous-Alexander, Jokic and Wembanyama would play for the World team.<\/p>\n
The \u201cstarter\u201d designation is a bit of a misnomer, since there will be at least 15 players who start for the three teams. By NBA rule, 10 players are chosen as official starters and the 14 others will be listed as reserves.<\/p>\n
Coaches<\/p>\n
Detroit\u2019s J.B. Bickerstaff will coach one of the All-Star teams. Either Adelman or San Antonio\u2019s Mitch Johnson will coach another \u2014 that will be decided by results of games on Sunday \u2014 and the NBA has not revealed how the coach of the third team will be decided.<\/p>\n
Bickerstaff earned his nod because the Pistons lead the Eastern Conference. Johnson or Adelman will go by having the best record in the Western Conference among eligible coaches; Oklahoma City\u2019s Mark Daigneault coaches the team with the West\u2019s best record, but he cannot coach the All-Star Game this year because he coached at the event last season.<\/p>\n
Multiple picks<\/p>\n
Detroit, New York, the Lakers, Oklahoma City and Denver are the teams with two All-Star selections.<\/p>\n
Bickerstaff thought the East-leading Pistons were rightly rewarded.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny time a team is sitting first in a conference anywhere, multiple guys should get the nod,\u201d he said last month. \u201cBecause if winning is the ultimate goal \u2026 nobody\u2019s done it at a higher level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James is an All-Star again, extending his record streak of selections. James was a pick for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,185,251,150,4033,4043,6,15887],"class_list":["post-576308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-basketball","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-nba","tag-nba-all-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115998634020837220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576308","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=576308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}