2025 NBA All-Star schedule: Where to watch, TV channel, live stream for action-packed weekend in San Francisco
The NBA’s 2025 All-Star Weekend has nearly arrived, with San Francisco and the Golden State Warriors set to play host from Feb. 14-16. This is the first time the annual showcase has been in the Bay Area since 2000, and some major changes are in store.
Most notably, the NBA has completely revamped the format of the All-Star Game. This year, the All-Stars were drafted into three teams of eight players each by Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith, and they will be joined on Sunday night by the winner of the Rising Stars Challenge to play a mini single-elimination tournament.
Kenny’s Young Stars will face Chuck’s Global Stars in the semifinals, while Shaq’s OGs will face Candace’s Rising Stars. The winners will then meet in the championship for the right to be named 2025 NBA All-Star champions. In each game, the teams will play to 40 points, and the first side to reach that mark wins.
Furthermore, the league announced on Thursday that Warriors legend Steph Curry and New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu will not reprise their one-on-one 3-point shootout this year because they “weren’t able to land on a plan we thought would raise the bar off of last year’s special moment.”
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The best young players in the league will hit the practice court ahead of Rising Stars on Friday night.
The finalists will be announced for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025.
The annual Celebrity Game will feature stars from around the sports, music and entertainment worlds.
The best young players will compete in the annual Rising Stars event. This year, they will be split into four teams: Team T, Team M, Team C and Team G. The winner will advance to Sunday’s All-Star Game tournament.
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The NBA’s All-Star teams will hit the practice court and speak to the media ahead of Sunday’s All-Star Game tournament.
The men’s basketball programs from Morehouse College and Tuskegee University will square off in the fourth annual HBCU Classic.
The NBA commissioner will hold his annual All-Star Weekend press conference.
The All-Star Saturday Night festivities will begin with the Skills Challenge, followed by the 3-Point Contest and the Slam Dunk Contest.
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The National Basketball Retired Players Association will host its annual awards ceremony.
The G League’s most exciting players were drafted into four teams and will compete in a mini tournament. This year’s teams are: Team Braxton, Team Earn Your Leisure, Team Swish Cultures and Team Strictly
The NBA’s best players will take center stage during the annual All-Star Game. This year, the format was changed to a mini tournament featuring three NBA All-Star teams: Chuck’s Global Stars, Kenny’s Young Guns, and Shaq’s OGs — and the winner of Rising Stars Challenge.
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The fun begins Friday with the Rising Stars practice session and concludes Sunday with the All-Star Game tournament
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How to watch 2025 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game on ESPN
Stars from all walks of entertainment and sports, including music, film and the WWE, will descend on the Bay Area on Friday to take part in the 2025 Ruffles NBA All-Star Celebrity Game.
ESPN’s Cassidy Hubbarth will again serve as host of the star-studded exhibition at Oakland Arena in Oakland, California, with San Francisco Giants legend Barry Bonds, Hall of Fame wide receiver and three-time Super Bowl champion Jerry Rice, multi-platinum recording artist 2 Chainz and influencer Khaby Lame serving as coaches.
Here are key facts about the 2025 game:
How can fans watch?
Coverage of the Ruffles NBA All-Star Celebrity Game will begin Friday at 7 p.m. on ESPN, ESPN+ and Disney+.
Fans can catch all the action in the NBA streaming hub.
Which celebrities are scheduled to participate?
Below are the rosters for the Ruffles NBA All-Star Celebrity Game:
Team coached by Barry Bonds and 2 Chainz
Kai Cenat, streamer
Noah Kahan, two-time Grammy-nominated multi-platinum artist
Pablo Schreiber, star of Paramount+’s “Halo”
Masai Russell, Olympic track and field gold medalist
Dylan Wang, Chinese actor and singer
Baron Davis, former NBA player and entrepreneur
Allisha Gray, Atlanta Dream guard and two-time WNBA All-Star
Danny Ramirez, star of Marvel Studios’ “Captain America: New World Order”
Mickey Guyton, country music trailblazer
Tucker Halpern, two-time Grammy-nominated musician of Sofi Tukker
Rome Flynn, Emmy-winning actor
Team coached by Jerry Rice and Khaby Lame
Druski, comedian and creator
Shaboozey, six-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter
Chris Brickley, top basketball skills trainer
Walker Hayes, singer-songwriter
Oliver Stark, star of drama series “9-1-1”
Matt Barnes, NBA champion with the Golden State Warriors
Kayla Thornton, WNBA champion and Golden State Valkyries forward
Shelby McEwen, Olympic track and field silver medalist
Bayley, WWE superstar
AP Dhillon, rapper and songwriter
Terrell Owens, Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver
How can fans access more NBA coverage from ESPN?
Check out the ESPN NBA hub page for the latest news, scores, stats, schedules and more.
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Jerry Rice brutally roasts Barry Bonds at NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
Jerry Rice attends the Fanatics Fest NYC 2024 at Jacob Javits Center on Aug. 17, 2024, in New York.
When Giants legend Barry Bonds and 49ers legend Jerry Rice met at midcourt to kick off the action for the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, where the two were squaring off as coaches, the contrived trash talk session got personal quick between the Bay Area greats when Rice roasted Bonds for his lack of team success.
“So how many rings do you have?” Rice asked, earning a noticeable gasp of shock from the crowd Friday at the Oakland Arena and stunning Bonds.
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A local crowd knew quite well that Rice won three Super Bowls with the 49ers, while Bonds never won a championship in his 22-year MLB career. The all-time home run king came agonizingly close with the Giants in 2002, as San Francisco blew a 3-2 series lead — and a 5-0 seventh-inning lead in Game 6 — to lose to the Angels in Bonds’ lone World Series appearance.
It all began with a midcourt chest bump from Rice to Bonds, leading ESPN’s Cassidy Hubbarth to ask whether the two were “cool,” which both answered affirmatively. But then Bonds decided to use his local origins as a point of pride against Rice, who grew up in Mississippi.
“I’m a hometown boy, we just rented him,” Bonds said with a smile. “We borrowed Jerry, he’s not from the Bay Area, I’m from the Bay. We’re gonna win.”
Rice stared back stone-faced at Bonds, with a look that matched how much his competitive juices were flowing on Friday — even though he wasn’t playing, the best receiver in football history spent much of the pregame shooting jumpers as if he were warming up to play. After Bonds offered his trash talk, Rice fired back viciously with the rings question, and even repeated the question a second time.
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To his credit, Bonds delivered a disarming retort: “I have two divorce rings,” that got the crowd roaring with laughter and had both Bay Area legends doubling over. Bonds ended up getting the last laugh, too: his team beat Rice’s squad 66-55.
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Alex Simon is the sports editor for SFGATE. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Alex has been in journalism for years as an editor, reporter and adjunct professor, most recently working at Bay Area News Group. He has degrees from Elon University and Arizona State University. When not at a sporting event, Alex enjoys playing sports and finding a good dive bar, and he loves In-N-Out Burger a bit too much for his own good.
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