63rd NBA All-Star Game • Feb 16, 2014

Next February, the NBA is bringing one of the most entertaining sporting events to New Orleans – NBA All-Star 2014. NBA All-Star is a unique experience that celebrates the NBA’s greatest athletes.

State Farm All-Star Saturday Night • Feb 15, 2014

State Farm All-Star Saturday Night includes four competitions featuring some of the NBA's best players:

• Sears Shooting Stars – a competition featuring NBA
and WNBA players and NBA Legends in a
shooting contest.

• Taco Bell Skills Challenge – a contest of top
guards working against the clock to compete
in an "obstacle course," consisting of a series of
passes, free throws, lay-ups and agility drills.

• Foot Locker Three-Point Contest – six of the
best long-range shooters attempt to score the
most three-pointers in a race against the clock.

• Sprite Slam Dunk – The event's grand finale,
showcasing the NBA's most athletic players
as they take to the air, mystifying fans with
their gravity defying creativity.

BBVA Rising Stars Challenge • Feb 14, 2014

NBA All-Star 2014 competitions will get underway on Friday, Feb 14, 2014, as the league's brightest young stars from the Rookie and Sophomore classes battling it out. 

• The 2014 game will mark the 30th year that Turner Sports will provide NBA All-Star coverage, and the 12th consecutive year the All-Star Game will be televised in primetime on TNT
• The All-Star Game will be seen by a worldwide television audience in more than 200 countries and territories and in more than 40 languages
• The 2014 All-Star Game will be played at New Orleans Arena, home of the Hornets, and will mark the second time that NBA All-Star will be hosted in New Orleans, having previously been held in the "Crescent City" in 2008.