Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija will suit up for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game Tournament today at 2pm Pacific.
The game can be watched on NBC or streaming on Peacock.
Avdija becomes the first Blazers player not named Damian Lillard to be an All-Star since LaMarcus Aldridge in 2015.
This year’s All-Star feature, which is not a single game but a series of 12-minute games in a tournament format, has yet another change in structure with two USA Teams (USA Stars and USA Stripes) and on World team.
From the NBA’s All-Star page:
The 75th NBA All-Star Game will feature a round-robin mini-tournament with four 12-minute games. The matchups are as follows:
Game 1: World vs. USA Stars, (5 ET)
Game 2: Winning team of Game 1 vs. USA Stripes (5:55 ET)
Game 3: Losing team of Game 1 vs. USA Stripes (6:25 ET)
Game 4: All-Star Championship (7:10 ET) (top two teams from round-robin play)If all three teams finish 1-1 after the round-robin games, the first tiebreaker will be point differential across each team’s two games.
The NBA also offers this PDF with the official All-Star game format and rules.
Let’s hang out here and discuss the games!
