2025 NBA All-Star Game

Result

MVP: Stephen Curry

A new four-team, single-elimination mini-tournament format debuted: three teams drafted by TNT analysts Shaquille O'Neal, Charles Barkley, and Kenny Smith, plus a fourth team of that weekend's Rising Stars Challenge winners, with each game played to a 40-point target. This was also the first All-Star Game held in San Francisco.

Box score

New four-team, single-elimination mini-tournament format (three teams drafted by TNT analysts plus a fourth team of Rising Stars Challenge winners), each game played to a 40-point target. This box score is the CHAMPIONSHIP game only, per this file's one-entry-per-year scope; the tournament's earlier semifinal games are not separately recorded. Rosters for the championship game were smaller than a traditional All-Star lineup (only 7 players per team appear in the box score) — confirmed complete by both sources, not an omission.

Bench (10+ points): Victor Wembanyama (11)

Game context

The 2025 All-Star Weekend scrapped the two-team format entirely in favor of a four-team, single-elimination mini-tournament, the league's most radical structural experiment yet, conceived as a direct response to the prior year's defense-optional, record-breaking 397-point East-West blowout. Three of the four teams were drafted live by TNT's "Inside the NBA" analysts — Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq's OGs), Charles Barkley (Chuck's Global Stars), and Kenny Smith (Kenny's Young Stars) — while the fourth slot went to the winning roster from that same weekend's separate Rising Stars Challenge tournament (coached by Candace Parker), giving the event a novel blend of veteran All-Stars and rising young talent. Every game, including the semifinals and championship, was played to a first-to-40-points target rather than a fixed clock, a target-score approach that built on the Elam Ending's earlier success at producing tighter, more urgent endings. In the semifinals, Shaq's OGs defeated Candace's Rising Stars 42-35, a game kept competitive by rookies Stephon Castle and Dalton Knecht before Damian Lillard buried a deep three-pointer to seal it for the OGs. In the tournament's other semifinal, Chuck's Global Stars beat Kenny's Young Stars 41-32, powered by Victor Wembanyama and Nikola Jokić controlling the interior before Shai Gilgeous-Alexander took over in the fourth, scoring the game's final five points (including the clinching basket) to close it out. That set up a championship matchup between Shaq's OGs and Chuck's Global Stars, which the OGs won decisively, 41-25, aided by the Global Stars opening the game 0-for-10 from the field. Stephen Curry earned MVP honors for his championship-game performance, finishing with 12 points, 4 rebounds, 2 steals, and an assist, punctuated by a highlight-reel half-court three-pointer and several other deep, no-look shooting displays that embodied exactly the kind of showcase moment the new format was designed to create. Jayson Tatum led the OGs in scoring in the final with 15 points and delivered the title-clinching basket, a two-handed dunk, while Damian Lillard's clutch shooting across both of the OGs' games made him one of the tournament's most consistent performers. LeBron James, drafted onto Shaq's OGs, withdrew shortly before tipoff with foot and ankle soreness, ending a 20-year streak of consecutive All-Star selections in which he had always played; Anthony Edwards also missed the earlier Rising Stars game with a groin injury. The event also marked the first All-Star Game held in San Francisco, and it drew mixed early reviews — fans and media alike criticized the lengthy in-game entertainment breaks (including a segment featuring Kevin Hart and a challenge from Mr. Beast) for interrupting the games' pace, even as the on-court product itself was broadly seen as more competitive than the prior year's East-West rout.

Sources

• Wikipedia — 2025 NBA All-Star Game
• CBS News San Francisco — Shaq's OGs beat Chuck's Global Stars 41-25 to win the 1st NBA All-Star mini-tournament
• NBA.com — Stephen Curry Named 2025 NBA All-Star Game MVP as Shaq's OGs Win First-Ever Tournament
• Cleveland19/AP — Shaq's OGs win the 1st NBA All-Star mini-tournament, topping Chuck's Global Stars 41-25