This year's NBA All-Star Game will have a new format with three games and a tournament-style competition. The 24 All-Stars will be drafted into three teams of eight players each and compete in a four-team tournament.
Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen was fouled by Hawks forward Jalen Johnson during the first half of an NBA game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers is on track to extend his record and be selected for his 21st All-Star Game . The first update on All-Star voting for this season's revised game was released Thursday, with Antetokounmpo leading with about 1.7 million votes.
Denver's Nikola Jokic is second overall with about 1.4 million votes, which is the most among all Western Conference players. The 10 players currently on pace to be selected as starters, based on fan voting, are Antetokounmpo, Boston's Jayson Tatum, New York's Karl-Anthony Towns, Charlotte's LaMelo Ball and Cleveland's Donovan Mitchell from the Eastern Conference, and Jokic, Phoenix's Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Dallas' Luka Doncic and James from the West. However, there won't be 10 starters this year for the All-Star Game, scheduled for February 16 in San Francisco. Instead, there will be a new format with three games. The 24 All-Stars will be drafted into three teams of eight players each by TNT personalities and former NBA greats Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith. These three teams will compete in a four-team tournament, with the remaining spot going to the team of NBA rookies and second-year players who win the Rising Stars event on All-Star Friday. There will be two semifinal games, followed by the winners playing in a championship game — the first team to reach 40 points wins all three games. This format is a significant departure from last year, when the All-Star Game final score was 211-186 — the highest-scoring game in history
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