Yes, those selected for the NBA All Star Game They charge to attend the big event, one that brings together the 24 best of the first part of the season (Choose the starters from fans, press and players and the substitutes, the coaches). Beyond the honor, one that remains forever on the resume of the stars of the League, there is an economic incentive for those who participate in the activities of a weekend during which the rest of the League players, the vast majority, usually take the opportunity to go on a long weekend: small getaways to vacation destinations with families or friends.
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Until the 2018 edition, included, the players of the team that won the match took 50,000 dollars per head and those of the defeated side, 25,000. That changed starting in 2019. Concerns about how uncompetitive the All Star Game had become caused the NBA to seek to incentivize participants a little more. As of 2019, each player on the winning team went on to take home $100,000, while the prize for the losers remained at $25,000. Half… to a quarter. Stephen Curry himself recognized that this was a difference that the players began to notice “to feel that the time invested was worth it”.
On the other hand, there are some cash prizes that are not for the players but are part of a donation made by the NBA, one for which the captain of each team chooses a charity from the city in which All Star Weekend is held. In the current format, each quarter is played from scratch and has its own winner, who donates $100,000 per quarter won to their chosen organization. They are 300,000 before the dispute of the last quarter, the one that goes to the final score and that is worth another 150,000 dollars for the winner’s organization. Both start, so that neither can stay at zero, with a base of 150,000, which is what they take via the NBA in the worst case. That part is for that initiative of the NBA, and there the players compete for a day that is not for them.
The winners of the contests also have a prize. In the mates, the most important, there is 100,000 dollars for the champion and 50,000 for the second. In the triples and skills the amounts drop to 50,000 and 35,000, but in the triples there are cash prizes for more participants, not just for the first two.
