NBA Rising Stars Challenge: 2025 date, start time, how to watch, teams, format

The NBA Rising Stars Challenge helps open All-Star Weekend by showcasing the league's best young talent every year.

The game has served as a launching pad for some great players, as the likes of Penny Hardaway, Allen Iverson, Gilbert Arena, Amar'e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving have won its MVP Award.

In 2024, four teams - drafted by Golden State Warriors legends Chris Mullin, Mitch Richmond and Tim Hardaway Sr. with Jeremy Lin leading the G-League team - will face off in a mini-tournament.

Here, we have all you need to know for 2025 Rising Stars, including the date, time, how to watch, teams and an explanation of the format.

2025 NBA Rising Stars Challenge start time, date and venue

The 2025 NBA Rising Stars games are scheduled to begin at 9 PM ET/8 PM CT/6 PM PT on Friday, February 14th from the Chase Center in San Francisco, California.

How to watch 2025 NBA Rising Stars Challenge, TV channel and streaming

The 2025 NBA Rising Stars event will be broadcast on TNT, available via cable TV and live TV streaming apps such as YouTubeTV or SlingTV.

2025 NBA Rising Stars Challenge teams

The teams with NBA players are named after the Warriors legends who drafted the teams. Together, the Tim Hardaway-Mitch Richmond-Chris Mullin trio was known as Run-TMC.

Team T	Team M	Team C	Team G-League
Cason Wallace	Amen Thompson	Stephon Castle	JD Davison
Jaime Jaquez Jr.	Ausar Thompson	Dalton Knecht	Mac McClung
Gradey Dick	Bilal Coulibaly	Jaylen Wells	Bryce McGowens
Anthony Black	Scoot Henderson	Keyonte George	Leonard Miller
Zaccharie Risacher	Toumani Camara	Zach Edey	Dink Pate
Alex Sarr	Yves Missi	Trayce Jackson-Davis	Reed Sheppard
Tristan Da Silva	Bub Carrington	Ryan Dunn	Pat Spencer

2025 NBA Rising Stars Challenge format

Four teams will participate in the Rising Stars event, with teams facing off in single-elimination semifinals where the first team to reach 40 points wins. Winners then move on to the championship.

In the championship game, the first team to reach 25 points wins.

The winning team will become the fourth team in the NBA All-Star Game mini-tournament on the night of Sunday, February 16th.

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