NBA All-Star Weekend 2025: Live results, updates from the Bay Area
The 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend has arrived with festivities taking place in the Bay Area.
The Golden State Warriors are hosting All-Star Weekend for the first time since 2000, a year full of iconic moments such as Vince Carter’s performance in the dunk contest. The events will take place at Chase Center and Oakland Arena.
The star-studded weekend began Friday with the annual celebrity game, where Team Bonds earned a 66-55 win. The Rising Stars event took center stage next, with Team C winning the four-team tournament and advancing to play in the All-Star Game on Sunday. Saturday’s slate includes the skills challenge, 3-point contest and slam dunk contest. The 74th NBA All-Star Game will take place Sunday.
This year’s game features a new format with four teams competing in a tournament. Three squads — Team Chuck, Team Shaq and Team Kenny — were drafted by TNT’s “Inside the NBA” analysts, while the fourth, Team Candace, is made up of the Rising Stars game champion.
The tournament includes three games: two semifinals and a championship, with each player on the winning team earning $125,000. Second-place players receive $50,000, while those on the third- and fourth-place teams take home $25,000 each.
Here are the highlights from the 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend.
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2025 NBA All-Star highlights: DQ drama in Skills Challenge
Ahead of the highly anticipated 2025 NBA All-Star Game, the league’s biggest stars got together to speak to the media and take part in the beloved Skills Challenge, 3-Point Contest and Slam Dunk Contest on Saturday.
The All-Star Saturday Night festivities begin at San Francisco’s Chase Center, home of the Golden State Warriors, at 8 p.m. ET.
Here are the highlights!
Representing Team Spurs in the Skills Challenge, Victor Wembanyama and Chris Paul thought they found a loophole to manipulate their way through the first round of the Skills Competition. As they completed the passing drills with relative ease, Wembanyama and Paul didn’t try to make a shot during any of the shooting drills. The duo just tossed the balls aside in order to juice their time, finishing the relay in less than 50 seconds.
The two Spurs stars were booed by fans at the Chase Center for their act and were later disqualified from advancing to the final round, despite Paul’s pleas to be reinstated. Paul was later presented a rule book to show why they were disqualified.
Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley flew through the course in the final round of the Skills Challenge, just needing a minute and a few tenths of a second. Cleveland’s All-Star duo was nearly perfect in executing each obstacle.
The Warriors, however, weren’t perfect. Draymond Green struggled to execute as time ran out while he was in the middle of his turn making his way through the course.
After Team Spurs was disqualified in the first round of the Skills Challenge, Draymond Green and Moses Moody helped Team Warriors advance while Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley helped Team Cavs move on to the final round. Team Rooks, which consisted of Wizards forward Alex Sarr and Hawks forward Zaccharie Risacher, was eliminated.
Basketball’s biggest stars spoke with the media for two-plus hours as part of NBA All-Star Media Day on Saturday morning before hitting the practice court — and there were plenty of viral moments.
The Slam Dunk Contest will close things out, as Matas Buzelis, Stephon Castle and Andre Jackson Jr. take on back-to-back defending champion Mac McClung in Saturday’s final event.
The 3-Point Contest — featuring Jalen Brunson, Cade Cunningham, Darius Garland, Tyler Herro, Buddy Hield, Cameron Johnson, Damian Lillard and Norman Powell — will be the second event of the night.
The Skills Challenge kicks off the evening and features four teams:
