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2025 NBA All Star Game format explained: How it affects potential Charlotte Hornets participants

The NBA has officially announced sweeping changes to the 2025 All Star Game and boy they are a doozy. In their never-ending quest to get multi-millionaires to care about a generally meaningless exhibition game smack dab in the middle of an 82 game grind of a season, Adam Silver and his team approved radical changes to the game that make is absolutely unrecognizable from what it once was.

Here are the now confirmed changes explained by the league: “The NBA is switching to a mini-tournament featuring four teams: three teams of NBA All-Stars and the winner of the Rising Stars challenge.