Three of those teams were made up of NBA All-Stars. The fourth was not. Instead, it was the winner of Friday's Rising Stars tournament that featured first- and second-year players who were not ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder will not have a representative at the 2025 NBA Rising Stars game due to Cason Wallace's shoulder injury. The Rising Stars game will feature a new format with four teams ...

For the 2025 game, the 24 All-Stars were drafted into three teams of eight players each by Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith. Team Candace, who was the Rising Stars Challenge ...

Instead of one big game, the All-Stars have been divided up into three teams. Additionally, the winner of the Rising Stars Challenge will be playing in this tournament. Two All-Star teams will ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The first test run of the new, truncated All-Star weekend format produced mixed results. One of the three Rising Stars games, each played to a target score, was competitive.

Festivities tip off on Friday with the Ruffles NBA All-Star Celebrity Game (7 p.m. ET, ESPN), followed by the reimagined Castrol Rising Stars mini-tournament (9 p.m. ET, TNT/TruTV). The 2025 ...

The Spurs' Stephon Castle takes home MVP honors to help Team C win the title and advance to Sunday's All-Star Game mini-tournament. From NBA.com News Services San Antonio Spurs rookie and Rising ...

One of the exciting events for All-Star Weekend is the Rising Stars Challenge, where rookie and second-year players face off to showcase some of the best young talent in the NBA. However ...

Rookie Stephon Castle will take place in the Rising Stars tournament and the Dunk Contest, facing off against Mac McClung, Matas Buzelis, and Andre Jackson Jr. The winner of the Rising Stars ...

p> The festivities kicked off Friday with the Rising Stars event, where the winning side of the four-team tournament featuring first- and second-year NBA players (plus one G League squad ...

MANILA, Philippines — San Antonio Spurs rookie Stephon Castle scored 12 points to lead Team C to a 25-14 come-from-behind victory over Team G-League in the Rising Stars final on Friday and into ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Keyonte George hit the first shot of the game — a 3-pointer from the top of the key — to give the Rising Stars an early lead. The rest of the contest went about as you'd expect.