NBA All-Star Game live updates: What you need to know about tonight’s East vs West matchup

The 2024 NBA All-Star Game returns to its East-West format for Sunday night’s game in Indianapolis.

The West squad will feature LeBron James in his record 20th All-Star appearance, 14-time All-Star Kevin Durant and Finals MVP Nikola Jokic. The East’s roster includes Milwaukee Bucks stars Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard as well as Tyrese Haliburton, who will play in front of his own Indiana Pacers fans in his first game as a starter. The MVP of the game will be given the Kobe Bryant Trophy.

Warriors guard Stephen Curry defends against Lakers forward LeBron James during a game earlier this year.

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What time does the NBA All-Star Game start? 

Tipoff for Sunday night’s NBA All-Star Game is set for 8 p.m. ET.

How to watch NBA All-Star Game on TV

The 2024 NBA All-Star Game will be televised on TNT.

Where is 2024 NBA All-Star Game? 

This year’s All-Star Game is at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Gainbridge Fieldhouse is the home arena of the Indiana Pacers.

NBA All-Star Game starters 

Here are the starters for each side:

• East: Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo, Miami’s Bam Adebayo %, Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton, Milwaukee’s Damian Lillard, Boston’s Jayson Tatum 
• West: Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, Dallas’ Luka Doncic, Phoenix’s Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Denver’s Nikola Jokic 

% Indicates commissioner’s selection for the injured Joel Embiid

NBA All-Star Game rosters 

Here are the complete rosters.

East:

• Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo 
• Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid 
• Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton 
• Milwaukee’s Damian Lillard 
• Boston’s Jayson Tatum 
• Miami’s Bam Adebayo 
• Orlando’s Paolo Banchero 
• Boston’s Jaylen Brown 
• New York’s Jalen Brunson 
• Philadelphia’s Tyrese Maxey 
• Cleveland’s Donovan Mitchell 
• New York’s Julius Randle 
• Atlanta’s Trae Young % 
• Toronto’s Scottie Barnes % 

West:

• Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James 
• Dallas’ Luka Doncic 
• Phoenix’s Kevin Durant 
• Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 
• Denver’s Nikola Jokic 
• Phoenix’s Devin Booker 
• Golden State’s Steph Curry 
• Los Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis 
• Minnesota’s Anthony Edwards 
• Los Angeles Clippers’ Paul George 
• Los Angeles Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard 
• Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns 

% Indicates commissioner’s selection for the injured Julius Randle and Joel Embiid

Who are the NBA All-Star Game coaches? 

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ Chris Finch will coach the West, and Milwaukee Bucks’ Doc Rivers will coach the East.

NBA All-Star Game predictions 

The West will win the All-Star Game in its return to the East-West format. LeBron James, who is making his record 20th All-Star appearance, won all but one of the six games that were done playground draft style. He was a captain every time and returns as captain again. The West also won six of the past seven matchups before the game switched formats with Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis receiving two of the MVP awards. Both are back on the West roster this year alongside rising star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Finals MVP Nikola Jokic.

The winner of the Kobe Bryant MVP award will be Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. With a return to the East-West format and this season featuring the in-season tournament, it feels like a new era for the NBA. So it’s time for a new star to shine. The Oklahoma City Thunder guard is second in the league with an average of 31.1 points per game and he’s proven to be clutch. He will carry on the torch that former Thunder stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook ignited with four MVP titles between the two of them.

Tyrese Haliburton will have a double-double in front of his home crowd. The Indiana Pacers standout is an All-Star starter for the first time. He had 18 points in his first appearance as a reserve last season. Part of what’s made his game so electric this year is how he’s set multiple records with his assists. He steps up in the bright lights, like in the in-season tournament, and this will be another opportunity for him to show the country what he’s made of. — Victoria Hernandez

LeBron James expresses desire to finish career with Lakers

INDIANAPOLIS — As Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James prepared for his NBA record 20th All-Star Game, he acknowledged he is contemplating what the end of his playing career will look like and expressed a desire to finish it with the Lakers.

“I have not mapped out how many seasons I have left. I know it’s not that many,” James said when asked by USA TODAY Sports at a news conference Sunday afternoon. — Jeff Zillgitt

Who won the NBA slam dunk contest? 

Mac McClung, who has been a slam dunk viral sensation for nearly a decade starting in high school, etched his name in NBA All-Star Weekend history book with his second consecutive slam dunk contest title.

McClung, a G League player for the Osceola Magic with just four career NBA games played, jumped over TNT analyst, Basketball of Hall of Famer and 7-footer Shaquille O’Neal, who was wearing a jersey from McClung’s high school, Gate City in southwest Virginia, for a two-handed reverse dunk.

McClung received a perfect score of 50 from judges Gary Payton, Fred Jones, Mitch Richmond, Darnell Hillman, Dominique Wilkins and slipped by Boston’s Jaylen Brown for the championship.

“I’m trying to sit with it right now and take a second and understand what’s going on,” McClung said. “I feel like life is so fast sometimes, it’s just I’ll look back in 20 years when I can’t jump anymore and not as quick. But I know I’m a lucky dude.” — Jeff Zillgitt

Who won the NBA 3-point contest? 

It was Dame Time yet again in NBA All-Star 3-point contest.

One of the clutch players in the game, Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard needed to make the final shot of the event to edge Atlanta’s Trae Young and win his second consecutive 3-point contest. He also needed to make his final shot last year to win the event.

Lillard had 26 points in the final round, slipping past Young’s 24 points.

“When I got to the final rack, I didn’t know my exact score, but when I missed a couple, I heard the crowd just oohing and aahing. Once they kept doing it over and over, I knew I was still alive because I knew they would have stopped if it had been over for me,” Lillard said. “The next two balls, I missed again, and then I grabbed the next one and I knew I needed that to win.”

In the showcase 3-point contest between Stephen Curry and Sabrina Ionescu, the Golden State Warriors guard won, 29-26. — Jeff Zillgitt, Victoria Hernandez

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