NBA All-Star Skills Challenge: 2025 date, start time, how to watch, format, winners

Rusty Gorelick Updated: Feb 13 2025 21:40

The NBA All-Star Skills Challenge helps set the tone for every NBA All-Star Saturday Night as some of the league's best players take part in a test of speed and accuracy.

Everything from dribbling to passing to shooting is needed for success in the Skills Challenge, and an illustrious list of players has both participated and won the event in past years.

Here, we have all you need to know about the NBA All-Star Skills Challenge.

How to watch 2025 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge, TV channel and streaming

The 2025 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge will be broadcast on TNT, available via cable TV and live TV streaming apps such as YouTubeTV or Hulu with Live TV.

Streaming is also available via MAX and TNT Overtime.

2025 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge start time, date and venue

The 2025 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge is the first event of All-Star Saturday night and is scheduled to start at 8 PM ET/7 PM CT/5 PM PT on Saturday, February 15 from the Chase Center in San Francisco, California.

2025 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge participants

Team Cavs (Donovan Mitchell & Evan Mobley)
Team Rooks (Zaccharie Risacher & Alex Sarr)
Team Spurs (Chris Paul & Victor Wembanyama)
Team Warriors (Draymond Green & Moses Moody)

View the latest odds to win the 2025 NBA Skills Challenge on site.

2025 NBA All-Star Skills Challenge format

The format for the 2025 NBA Skills Challenge has not been officially released, but given how the teams are set up, it is likely to be similar to the 2024 version. Teams earned "challenge points" for winning each event, and the team with the most challenge points won the Skills Challenge.

In 2024, four teams of two players first competed in a team relay, with the first team to complete the course setting the time to beat. The team with the fastest time earned 100 challenge points toward their total for the event.

The second event was team passing, where team members tried to pass as many basketballs as possible into targets within a 30-second time limit. The winning team earned 100 challenge points.

Round three was team shooting, where team members has 60 seconds to make as many shots as possible from five different spots on the court: Two mid-range, one corner three, one top-of-the-key three, and one 30-foot three. The winning team earned 200 challenge points for this event.

NBA All-Star Skills Challenge past winners

Year	Winner
2024	Team Pacers (Tyrese Haliburton, Myles Turner, Bennedict Mathurin)
2023	Team Jazz (Jordan Clarkson, Collin Sexton, Walker Kessler)
2022	Team Cavs (Darius Garland, Evan Mobley, Jarrett Allen)
2021	Domantas Sabonis
2020	Bam Adebayo
2019	Jayson Tatum
2018	Spencer Dinwiddie
2017	Kristaps Porzingis
2016	Karl-Anthony Towns
2015	Patrick Beverley
2014	Trey Burke
2013	Damian Lillard
2012	Tony Parker
2011	Stephen Curry
2010	Steve Nash
2009	Derrick Rose
2008	Deron Williams
2007	Dwyane Wade
2006	Dwyane Wade
2005	Steve Nash
2004	Baron Davis
2003	Jason Kidd