2026 NBA All-Star Game

Result

MVP: Anthony Edwards

The format changed again to a three-team round-robin (two U.S. rosters, "USA Stars" and "USA Stripes", plus an international "Team World" squad), with the top two records advancing to a championship game played with a running 12-minute clock rather than a target score. It was also the first All-Star Game in Inglewood since 1983 and the first broadcast on NBC since 2002.

Box score

New three-team round-robin format (two U.S. rosters, USA Stars and USA Stripes, plus an international Team World squad), top two records advancing to a championship game; a 12-minute running clock was used rather than a target score. This box score is the CHAMPIONSHIP game only, per this file's one-entry-per-year scope. Stephen Curry was injured and replaced on the roster by Brandon Ingram, who does not appear in this specific championship game's box score.

Game context

The 2026 All-Star Game abandoned the 2025 mini-tournament's four-team, celebrity-drafted structure after just one year in favor of a different experiment: a three-team round-robin pitting two American rosters, "USA Stars" and "USA Stripes," against an international "Team World" squad, with the top two records from round-robin play advancing to a championship game. Unlike the target-score endings used from 2020 through 2025, games were played with a conventional running 12-minute clock, a deliberate return to clock-based basketball after several years of Elam Ending and first-to-target formats. The event, held February 15 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood — the first All-Star Game in the city since 1983 — was also notable for its broadcast home: NBC carried the game, marking the first time the All-Star Game had aired on over-the-air network television since 2002, as part of the network's return to NBA coverage that season, with an early 5 p.m. Eastern tip-off scheduled to avoid conflicting with concurrent Winter Olympics coverage. In round-robin play, Team Stars opened with a 37-35 overtime win over Team World, with Anthony Edwards hitting a three-pointer that forced the extra period and Victor Wembanyama countering with 14 points, 6 rebounds, and 3 blocks for Team World. Team Stripes then edged Team Stars 42-40 on a buzzer-beating three-pointer from De'Aaron Fox, with Jaylen Brown (11 points) and Edwards (11 points) leading their respective sides. In the tournament's decisive round-robin game, Team Stripes beat Team World 48-45 behind a dominant showing from Kawhi Leonard, who scored 31 points on 11-of-13 shooting (6-of-7 from three) in just 12 minutes on his home Los Angeles-area floor; Wembanyama countered with 19 points for Team World, which was eliminated after finishing 0-2. The round-robin results left Team Stripes at 2-0 and Team Stars at 1-1, sending the two U.S. rosters into the championship. That final proved lopsided: Team Stars routed a Team Stripes roster that commentators noted appeared fatigued after playing both of its 12-minute round-robin games earlier in the day, winning the championship 47-21, with Tyrese Maxey leading Team Stars with 9 points and 3 steals and Donovan Mitchell topping Team Stripes with just 6 points. Anthony Edwards earned MVP honors for his performance across the tournament, totaling 32 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 assists on 13-of-22 shooting (6-of-15 from three) across the three preliminary round-robin games, an efficient, high-usage effort that outweighed his relatively modest 8-point showing in the championship game itself. Edwards credited Wembanyama's early defensive intensity with setting the competitive tone for the whole event, and he was candid afterward that he considered Wembanyama and Leonard, both of whom had standout individual scoring games earlier in the day, to be his stiffest competition for the MVP award before their late-tournament performances fell off.

Sources

• Wikipedia — 2026 NBA All-Star Game
• NBA.com — 2026 NBA All-Star Teams Announcement: USA Stars defeat USA Stripes in Championship
• NBA.com — Anthony Edwards earns 2026 NBA All-Star MVP award
• Sports Illustrated — Anthony Edwards Wins 2026 All-Star Game MVP, Leads Team Stars to Win in New Format
• Yahoo Sports — NBA All-Star Game 2026: Youth prevails in all-U.S. final as Team Stars wins