NBA All-Star Weekend Live Updates: Plan, Format, Dunk Competition, Competence Competition and 3-Point Shootout Start Time

San Francisco – Rising Stars usually have to wait for their turn to step on the big stage. They play in all-star weekend before it is technically the weekend, a preview of Friday night of future greatness from NBA’s finest collection of previous beginners.

But things changed on Valentine’s Day in the bay. NBA’s response to the recent embarrassment over Sunday’s All-Star Game is a new mini-tournament format introduced this season. The All-Star guards were divided into three teams of eight, managed by inside NBA’s crew of Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith.

The fourth participant in Sunday’s All-Star tournament is the winner of the Rising Stars Championship, who will be coached by TNT analyst Candace Parker. In a preview of Sunday’s All-Star Mini Tournament, the Rising Stars group was also divided into three troops with a fourth participant consisting of G League players who completed the bracket.

Stephon Castle and Dalton Knecht led Team C to Victory and became the first Rising Stars team competing against the league’s biggest names on Sunday.

“By playing my first All-Star game. It’s crazy like a rookie, ”Knecht said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun. We will try to go out there and put a show and try to make it competitive with certainty. We will try to get that victory. “