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The best basketball players in the world will descend upon Salt Lake City for NBA All-Star Weekend, all leading up to the main event: the 2023 All-Star Game.
Fans can be on the lookout for a new format: For the first time ever, team captains LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo will pick their teams directly ahead of the All-Star Game on Sunday. Kevin Durant suggested the format back in 2022.
« It’d be fire if we picked right before the game, though. In the locker room, like ‘let me get him, let me get him, »‘ Durant said on a podcast. « We giving the NBA ideas man, for free on ETCs. »
Stephen Curry was named the 2022 NBA All-Star Game MVP after scoring 50 points with a record 16-three pointers in Team LeBron’s 163-160 win over Team Durant.
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Who will win this year? Who will hoist the Kobe Bryant MVP trophy? Here is everything you need to know about the 2023 NBA All-Star Game:
The 72nd NBA All-Star Game will tip off at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET. The NBA All-Star Draft will be held directly ahead of the game at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Both will be televised on TNT.
The player that received the most fan votes in each conference was designated a captain.
James will serve as a team captain for the sixth consecutive year. The 19-time All-Star received 7,418,116 fans votes. The Los Angeles Lakers star has been a captain every year since the format was adopted in the 2018 All-Star Game, and he’s 5-0 as a captain. Will he make it 6-0?
Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks will serve as the opposing captain, his third time in the driver’s seat after leading an All-Star team in 2019 and 2020. And he’s looking for his first win as captain — Team Giannis is 0-2 against Team LeBron. The seven-time All-Star received 6,761,032 fan votes.
Fans, players and selected media voted for All-Star starters with the fan vote counting 50% and the players’ and media vote each accounting for 25%.
The West coast starters are James, Luka Doncic (Dallas Mavericks), Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets), Lauri Markkanen (Utah Jazz), who is replacing Zion Williamson in the starting lineup, and Ja Morant (Memphis Grizzles), who is replacing Stephen Curry.
