TNT to unveil 2025 NBA All-Star Game starters during tonight’s pregame show

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The five players honored as starters from the Eastern Conference and five players from the Western Conference for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game will be announced during TNT’s pregame show tonight (7:30 p.m. ET). Following the All-Star announcement, TNT will air a doubleheader featuring the Miami Heat vs. the Milwaukee Bucks (8:30 ET) and Boston Celtics vs. the Los Angeles Lakers (10 ET) as a part of 2025 NBA Rivals Week.

Schedule Update: Tonight’s Miami Heat at Milwaukee Bucks game will change game time to 8:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. CT and remain televised by TNT/truTV/Max.

Prior to the game, TNT will reveal the starters for the 2025 NBA All-Star Game at 7:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. CT.

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The All-Star reserves will be revealed on Jan. 30 on TNT.

Fan voting for the All-Star Game concluded on Monday. After all votes for the starters are tallied, players will be ranked in each conference by position (guard and frontcourt) within each of the three voting groups: fan votes, player votes and media votes.

Each player’s score will be calculated by averaging his weighted rank from the fan, player, and media votes. The two guards and three frontcourt players with the best score in each conference will be named NBA All-Star Game starters. Fan voting will serve as the tiebreaker for players in a position group with the same score.

New All-Star Game Format

For the first time, the NBA All-Star Game will feature a mini-tournament with four teams and three games. Two teams will meet in one semifinal (Game 1), and the remaining two teams will meet in the other semifinal (Game 2). The winning teams from Game 1 and Game 2 will advance to face each other in the championship (Game 3). For each game, the winner will be the first team to reach or surpass 40 points.

Each team will have eight players and be named for a TNT NBA analyst. The 24 NBA All-Star selections will be divided evenly into three teams, with the rosters drafted by TNT’s Inside the NBA commentators and honorary team general managers Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith. The three analysts will make their respective picks for Team Chuck, Team Shaq and Team Kenny live on TNT in the NBA All-Star Draft, which will be conducted on Thursday, Feb. 6 just before the network’s doubleheader that night.

The fourth team will be the winning team from the championship game of the Castrol Rising Stars, the annual showcase of top first- and second-year NBA players and NBA G League standouts, which will be played on Feb. 14 during NBA All-Star 2025. TNT analyst and WNBA legend Candace Parker will serve as honorary GM of the Rising Stars champion, known as Team Candace.

The five players honored as starters in each conference will be selected by fans (50% of the vote), current NBA players (25%) and a media panel (25%). The seven players honored as reserves in each conference will be selected by NBA head coaches.

The four teams participating in the NBA All-Star Game will compete for a prize pool of $1.8 million. Each player on the championship-winning team will receive $125,000, each player on the second-place team will receive $50,000 and each player on the third- and fourth-place teams will receive $25,000.