2026 NBA All-Star Game rosters: How teams are split for new USA vs. World format

It’s USA Stars vs. USA Stripes vs. Team World in the 2026 NBA All-Star Game at Intwit Dome on Sunday

The 2026 NBA All-Star Game has reached the Clippers’ Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. The game, featuring a brand-new USA vs. World format, is being held Sunday afternoon. The All-Star Game rosters were finalized earlier this week with all injury replacements being named and some of the teams mixed around.

2026 NBA All-Star Game rosters

The USA vs. World format features three teams in a round-robin tournament. Twenty-eight players in total were named All-Stars this season as Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox joined the ranks Thursday. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Giannis

The format will consisted of a mini-tournament, where each team plays each other once to determine who will face off in a title game. There will be a USA Stars team and a USA Stripes team to split up the American talent, whereas Team World will have all the international NBA talent.

Some liberties were taken in dividing up the roster to even up the numbers. For example, Karl-Anthony Towns, who was born in New Jersey but has played for the Dominican Republic national team, will be on Team World, although he also could’ve been placed on one of the two USA teams. The same goes for Norman Powell, who was slid over to Team World to replace the injured Giannis Antetokounmpo after being first placed on USA Stripes. Powell, born in San Diego, has played for the Jamaican national team.

As far as the schedule goes, USA Stars — made up of the younger American All-Stars like Scottie Barnes, Cade Cunningham and Tyrese Maxey — and Team World will face Team World in Game 1. The winner of that matchup will face USA Stripes — made up of American vets like Kevin Durant, LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard — in Game 2. The loser of Game 1 will also then play USA Stripes in Game 3. At the end of the first three games, the two teams with the best records will face off in Game 4 to determine the champions. If there is a three-way tie, point differential will be used to determine the two teams that will advance.

Here is the roster for all three teams:

2026 NBA All-Star Game rosters
USA StarsUSA StripesTeam World
Scotty Barnes

Jaylen Brown

Giannis Antetokounmpo (injured)

Devin Booker

Jalen Brunson

Deni Avdija

Cade Cunningham

Stephen Curry (injured)

Luka Doncic

jalen duren

Kevin Durant

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (injured)

Anthony Edwards

Brandon Ingram

Nikola Jokic

Chet Holmgren

LeBron James

Jamal Murray

Jalen Johnson

Kawhi Leonard

Alperen Sengun (injury replacement)

Tyrese Maxey

Donovan Mitchell

Pascal Siakam

DeAaron Fox(injury replacement)
Karl-Anthony Towns

Victor Wembanyama

Norman Powell

The 2026 all-star game tips off at 5 p.m. EST on NBC and Peacock. The players on the winning team will each walk away with $125,000. Players on the second-place team get $50,000, while players of the third-placed team get $25,000.

J.B. Bickerstaff of the Pistons is coaching the USA Stars team, who has two of his Detroit players in Jalen Duren and Cade Cunningham. Mitch Johnson of the Spurs will coach the USA Stripes team, and Team World will be led by Serbian-born Darko Rajakovich of the Raptors.

Basketball fans can find the 75th NBA All-Star Game on a new TV channel in 2026 – NBC.

With the 2025–26 NBA season, basketball action returns to the broadcast network for the first time in two decades.

Sunday’s All-Star Game celebrations, which will air on NBC as well as the streaming provider Peacock, are being held at the Intuit Dome, the $2 billion home of the Los Angeles Clippers that showcases how artificial intelligence is reshaping architecture, design, and overall fan experience.

Meanwhile, in 2026, there is a new All-Star Game format featuring two teams consisting of U.S. players and one team of international players. All three teams will compete in a round-robin tournament, which includes four 12-min games. The two teams with the best records will advance to the championship game (the first tiebreaker is overall point differential).

What Time Is The NBA All-Star Game?

The NBA All-Star Game starts at 5 p.m. ET in Inglewood, Calif. Noah Eagle, a Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ honoree in 2025, will be the play by play voice beside analysts Reggie Miller and Jamal Crawford. Zora Stephenson and Ashley Shah Ahmedi will both serve as the sideline reporters.

Meanwhile, the World team is the betting favorite (+155) to win the NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles, according to the latest sports betting lines at FanDuel Sportsbook, followed by the USA Strips (+160) and USA Stars (+200).

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2026 NBA All-Star Game Rosters

The roster for the USA Stars features Scottie Barnes (Toronto Raptors), Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns), Cade Cunningham (Detroit Pistons), Jalen Duren (Detroit Pistons), Anthony Edwards (Minnesota Timberwolfs), Chet Holmgren (Oklahoma City Thunder), Jalen Johnson (Atlanta Hawks), and Tyrese Maxey (Philadelphia 76ers). The coach is J.B. Bickerstaff of the Detroit Pistons.

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