Key facts
- Frequency
- Annual
- Inaugurated
- 1951 (Boston)
- Previous event
- 2026 (Inglewood, California)
- Next event
- 2027 (Phoenix, Arizona)
- Participants
- Eastern Conference and Western Conference All-Stars
- Organized by
- National Basketball Association
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- all-star game
- Part of
- NBA All-Star Weekend
- Country
- United States
- Followed by
- 2020 NBA All-Star Game
- Sport
- basketball
- Image
- File-2007 NBA All Star Game.jpg
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- Commons category
- NBA All-Star Game
- topic's main category
- Category:NBA All-Star Game
- inception
- 1951-00-00
- start time
- 1951-00-00
- social media followers
- 811554
- month of the year
- February
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Encyclopedic overview
The National Basketball Association All-Star Game is the annual all-star game hosted each 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 usually the week after the Super Bowl. It is the featured event of NBA All-Star Weekend, a three-day event which goes from Friday to Sunday. The All-Star Game was first played at the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951.
The starting lineup for each squad is selected by a combination of fan, player, and media voting, while head coaches choose the reserves, seven players from their respective conferences, so each side has a 12-man roster. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players. If a selected player cannot participate because of injury, the NBA commissioner selects a replacement.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NBA All-Star Game” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.