The 2025 NBA All-Star weekend has officially arrived and the NBA action will kick off with the Rising Stars tournament at the Chase Center in San Francisco Friday night. Here's what to know about ...

Festivities tip off on Friday with the Ruffles NBA All-Star Celebrity Game (7 p.m. ET, ESPN), followed by the reimagined Castrol Rising Stars mini-tournament (9 p.m. ET, TNT/TruTV). The 2025 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The new NBA All-Star weekend format gives the winning Rising Stars team a new responsibility: the opportunity to light a fire under an All-Star club. With nothing to lose and ...

The 24 NBA All-Stars were spread across three teams, and a fourth team, the winning of Friday night’s Rising Stars tournament, was added to the mix. The Rising Stars are comprised of first and ...

NBA Rising Stars is usually a fairly low-profile All-Star Event. It lacks the star power of the All-Star Game itself and the history of the Saturday slate of events, so Friday tends to be the ...

Instead of one big game, the All-Stars have been divided up into three teams. Additionally, the winner of the Rising Stars Challenge will be playing in this tournament. Two All-Star teams will ...

Three of those teams were made up of NBA All-Stars. The fourth was not. Instead, it was the winner of Friday's Rising Stars tournament that featured first- and second-year players who were not ...

WNBA legend Candace Parker will be taking charge of her team called Candace's Rising Stars in the 2025 NBA All-Star Game. Parker's team will be taking on Shaquille O'Neal's OGs, consisting of ...

Team T guard Jamie Jaquez Jr. (11) of the Miami Heat goes for the basket during the 2025 NBA Rising Stars Game at Chase Center. Kyle Terada Kyle Terada-Imagn Images The new Rising Stars format ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder will not have a representative at the 2025 NBA Rising Stars game due to Cason Wallace's shoulder injury. The Rising Stars game will feature a new format with four teams ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The first test run of the new, truncated All-Star weekend format produced mixed results. One of the three Rising Stars games, each played to a target score, was competitive.