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The NBA All-Stars have been selected. Next up: Assigning them to teams.

The 10 players designated as starters were announced on Jan. 23, the remaining 14 players designated as reserves were revealed Thursday — and now, those 24 players will be drafted onto eight-player teams for the games that will be played on Feb. 16 in San Francisco.

TNT analysts and basketball greats Shaquille O’Neal, Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith will draft the teams on Feb. 6. The eight-player teams will bear their names — Team Shaq, Team Charles and Team Kenny.

They’ll pick from this pool of players:

— LeBron James and Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers

— Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley and Darius Garland of the Cleveland Cavaliers

— Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics

— Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams of the Oklahoma City Thunder

— Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves

— Cade Cunningham of the Detroit Pistons

— Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves

— James Harden of the Los Angeles Clippers


https://apnews.com/article/nba-all-star-game-format-cacacc14d48c44c181e9bdea2cd64322