{"id":718674,"date":"2026-01-31T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/718674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:44:19","slug":"chargers-wr-keenan-allen-to-play-in-nba-all-star-celebrity-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/718674\/","title":{"rendered":"Chargers WR Keenan Allen to play in NBA All-Star Celebrity Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This year\u2019s NBA All-Star Weekend will take place next month in Los Angeles at the Intuit Dome from February 13-15. Since the event is taking place out in LA, two NFL players with ties to the city will be participating in this year\u2019s NBA All-Star Celebrity in former USC and current Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The news was first broke by NFL insider Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Some of the other announced participants in the game are NBA insider Shams Charania, Los Angeles music producer Mustard, and Memphis rapper GloRilla. The Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 Mookie Betts has also been tabbed to be one of the coaches for the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Other notable NFL players who have participated in the Celebrity game in recent years have been Packers edge rusher Micah Parsons and Steelers wide receiver D.K. Metcalf. Former Eagles and 49ers great Terrell Owens has also been a participant, even taking home the MVP award of the game for his performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s NBA All-Star Weekend will take place next month in Los Angeles at the Intuit Dome from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2064],"tags":[241,7,1014,262,2453,2444,2443,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-718674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-chargers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-los-angeles","11":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","12":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-news","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-losangeleschargers","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115988834753935516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}