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The National Basketball Association All-Star Game is the annual all-star game hosted every February by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and showcases 24 of the league's star players. Since 2022, it was held on the third Sunday of February, the same day that the Daytona 500 was held, and one week after the Super Bowl .
NBA All-Star Celebrity Game: First held in 2003, the game features retired NBA players, WNBA players, actors, musicians, media influencers, and athletes from sports other than basketball. Rising Stars Challenge : From 1994 until 1999, the event was called the "Rookie Game," and composed entirely of first-year players.
The following is a list of players who have been selected for the NBA All-Star Game at least once in their career. [5] Note that the number indicates the player's number of selections—not the number of games played. For instance, Michael Jordan was named to the All-Star Game roster 14 times, but missed the 1986 game due to injury. [6]
The league later announced a revised 22-game schedule, but no all-star game was played. No official All-Star Game was held in 2010. Instead, there was an exhibition game matching the USA national team against a WNBA All-Star team, with Team USA winning 99–72 at Mohegan Sun Arena. [3] The Western Conference leads the overall series 10–4.
The NBA released the early returns on All-Star fan voting Thursday, and Giannis Antetokounmpo is the leading vote-getter thus far.. The Milwaukee Bucks star has received 1,710,630 votes to lead ...
108,713 for the 2010 NBA All-Star Game which was held in Cowboys Stadium at Arlington, Texas — the largest attendance in history for any basketball game. Youngest All-Star Game MVP; LeBron James (21 years, 51 days) Oldest All-Star Game MVP; Shaquille O'Neal (36 years, 346 days) Youngest Rising Stars Challenge MVP; Kyrie Irving (19 years, 338 ...
The 2008 All-Star Game was not held due to the 2008 Summer Olympics. In 2010, the Stars at the Sun game was also held between a team of WNBA stars and the USA national team, even though it was a non-Olympic year and the season did not directly conflict with the year's main international women's basketball event, the 2010 FIBA World Championship ...
The Three-Point Contest [1] is a National Basketball Association (NBA) contest held on the Saturday before the annual All-Star Game as part of All-Star weekend. The 2019 iteration of the contest involved ten participants. From its introduction in 1986 to 2018, eight participants were selected to participate in each season's shootout.