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



The 2026 NBA All-Star Game has arrived at 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 shuffled around. 

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 consist 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, while Team World will have all the international NBA talent.

Some liberties were taken in dividing up the roster to even up the numbers. For instance, 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 first being 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 then also play USA Stripes in Game 3. At the end of the first three games, the two teams with the best record 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 are the rosters for all three teams:

2026 NBA All-Star Game rosters

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, which 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 Rajaković of the Raptors.





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