The NBA’s 2026 All-Star starters have been set, the league announced today (Twitter links). Here are the 10 players who earned those spots:
Eastern Conference
- Giannis Antetokounmpo (Bucks)
- Jaylen Brown (Celtics)
- Jalen Brunson (Knicks)
- Cade Cunningham (Pistons)
- Tyrese Maxey (Sixers)
Western Conference
- Stephen Curry (Warriors)
- Luka Doncic (Lakers)
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Thunder)
- Nikola Jokic (Nuggets)
- Victor Wembanyama (Spurs)
This season’s All-Star Game will have a U.S. vs. World format. The round-robin event is scheduled to be played Sunday, Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. ET at the Clippers’ Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. Two teams of U.S. players and one team of international players (the World team) will compete in a tournament featuring four 12-minute games. The three teams will each have a minimum of eight players.
How the teams will be divvied up is yet to be determined.
Two-time MVP Antetokounmpo has been selected as a starter for the 10th consecutive season. 2024 Finals MVP Brown will be making his fifth All-Star appearance, while Brunson will be making his third consecutive appearance.
This marks Cunningham’s second NBA All-Star selection and first as a starter. Cunningham is the first Pistons player to be named an Eastern Conference starter in the All-Star Game since Allen Iverson in 2009. It will also be Maxey’s second All-Star appearance and first as a starter.
This will be Curry’s 12th All-Star Game and 11th as a starter. Doncic will be making his sixth All-Star appearance.
This marks the fourth career All-Star appearance for reigning NBA MVP and Finals MVP Gilgeous-Alexander and his third consecutive season as an All-Star starter. Three-time MVP Jokic has been named an All-Star for the eighth consecutive year. Wembanyama is the first Spurs player to be named an All-Star starter since Kawhi Leonard in 2017.
Fans accounted for 50% of the vote to determine the starters, while players and media accounted for 25% each. Wembanyama won a tiebreaker with the Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards for a starting spot. The full voting results can be found through this NBA.com link.
No Antman?
Not good enough, as simple as!
He is not that popular.
Popularity contest
Ummm, yeah. They’ve never once pretended it isn’t. Hence the word “star”. That’s why they let the fans vote.
Curry over Ant is such a joke. Hopefully ANT skips all the (nonsense) and rests his foot.
Strange justifications. Last year an analyst indicated that LaMelo couldn’t be in the All-Star game because he was on a losing team and had been injured. This year Giannis is on a losing team and has also missed games due to injury. What a coincidence
Win couple mvps and a title, then you have an argument
@Michol @Jlfan was not making that argument, the analyst was.
@Jlfan has a good point though. It’s just a popularity contest at the end of the day.
Barely any difference between Giannis and LaMelo. Sound logic.
That argument gets brought up for alternates as they are picked by coaches. Fans vote count for the starters so no one cared about losing teams. Last time it was argued was when Old Jordan took a spot in his last game.
Ant should be a Starter!!
The ten “starters”: 5 from the US, 5 international. Does that mean the fourteen “reserves” have to be 3 international, 11 US in order to get one team of 8 international players and two teams of 8 Americans? Or does the “at least eight” mean the international team will have extra players? Or do they fudge it and move some guys over?
Actually it probably works out, most of the rest of the deserving players are Americans. Maybe Avdija, Sengun and Murray fill out the international team… probably missing someone
Jokic is hurt so he will have a replacement. Even if he gets back the week of it wouldn’t benefit him to play. Yes the games are not competitive but he got hurt on a random foot step. Not like he enjoys playing in AS games.
Would be nice to see say Giannis go all rack attack repeatedly until someone stopped him. Might bring some competitiveness back or he’s scoring 50 running in dunks. Please do that Giannis.
I’m still pretty staggered that guys have stuff in their contract tied to all-star selection, it’s such an artificial and meaningless thing.
All-NBA is tied to it, not All-Star.
All-Star is by and large a mid-season award, not a full season award.
All Stars do impact as performance bonus so it will increase a contract.
If it’s written into the contract, which it typically isn’t now due to All-NBA stipulations already baked into maxes.
Luka and Giannis led by voting count.
Luka, Giannis, Jokic, Brunson, Maxey, Steph, Cade, SGA, Donovan, Wemby …….
This is the correct order by voting numbers.
Cant really complain about it. Love Wemby but he’s been out. KD should have got it not AE imo. But I’m good cause if Wemby was 100%. He would be here. And is playing both ways great.
What does Luka a OneWay player getting most votes tell us. Fans don’t know defense. Don’t care about defense. NBA basketball is a 2Way sport.
Few players out here trolling voting in Bronny as a starter, lols. Either daddy voting or we have atleast two players with a fantastic sense of humour.
Bron has started in NBA all star since 2005 —2025 ….
Brony has probably been to more all star gms than everyone except Giannis lol.
Let’s go Maxey
Brunson n Hart should be resting. Brown is weak ……
Who is Dallas ??????
Sounds right-ish …… I’d replace Luka with Edwards though.
Luke doesn’t play poor defense, he doesn’t even try.
That’s why I dog him. He thinks he’s above D lol.
Antetokounmpo, Curry
Antetokounmpo, Curry
Antetokounmpo, Curry
Win the 2026-2030 titles for the Warriors.
The world — Giannis, Luka, Jokic, SGA, Wemby
The USA — Brunson, Maxey, Steph, Cade, Brown
USA will use Kerr’s offense lols …….
Always find the player vote real interesting
They had Nickiel Alexander-Walker at 16 and Anfernee Simons 19 while having other stars way behind like Jalen Duren (30), Paolo (33), Franz Wagner (39) and so on.
Same again with Neemius Queta at 25 with Evan Mobley also 25, like there’s no world in which they are equal hahahaha
Sengun was 10th most voted by fans out west but ranked 32nd among his peers. Julius Randle 13tg best in the west in front of Harden (17), Jimmy Butler (32) and Amen Thompson (32).
Media who cares why they think it should be fans and players. They get paid enough to talk crap on TV about who the best players are they don’t need a vote
Deni had the fan vote. Media and players voted the others in. We’ll done.
When the players see consistent play through next year. I believe they’ll vote for Avdija , too.
They got the starters fairly close…
EC…
Maxey, Mitchell, Cade, Jalen Johnson & Giannis
WC…
Luka, SGA, Kawhi, Wemby & Jokic