The casting is known! The NBA, the prestigious North American basketball championship, unveiled last night the official lineups of the three teams who will compete in the next All Star Game. The all-star game which will take place on February 15 (on the night of Sunday to Monday in France) under the spotlights of the Intuit Dôme, the usual and ultra-modern lair of the Los Angeles Clippers.
To revive interest in a meeting that has been losing momentum in recent years and which is celebrating its 75th edition in 2026, the NBA wanted to innovate this year by offering a new and baroque format with three teams. Two will be made up of American players and a third of international players.
It is in the latter, made up of 9 players, one more than in the other teams, that Victor Wembanyama, the Frenchie of the Spurs, will make his second selection for the all-star game.
He will – logically – be accompanied by other “foreign” players in the league including the Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City), double MVP last season, the Serbian Nikola Jokic (Denver) and the Slovenian genius of the Lakers Luka Doncic.
The American players were scattered throughout the other two selections. A distribution made according to their ages: the youngest in the USA Stars team and the oldest in the USA Stripes team.
The team of the “oldest” will look great and will notably be made up of LeBron James (41 years old, Lakers), who honors his 22nd selection (record of its kind), Stephen Curry (37 years old, Golden State), Kevin Durant (37 years old, Houston) and Kawhi Leonard (34 years old, Clippers) who received his call-up by NBA boss Adam Silver last night.
Cade Cunningham (Detroit), Anthony Edwards (Minnesota), Chet Holmgren (Oklahoma City) and Devin Booker (Phoenix) will be the main players in the young guns of the “USA Stars” team.
The evening will begin with a duel between the veterans of the USA Stripes against the team from the “rest of the world”. Four 12-minute matches are on the evening’s program.
