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Toronto’s Brandon Ingram is an All-Star again.
Ingram has been selected by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to replace the injured Stephen Curry on the USA Stripes team at the 2026 All-Star Game on Sunday in Los Angeles at the Intuit Dome (more on this year’s format below).
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Stephen Curry was voted an All-Star starter by the fans, but will sit out the game due to a case of “runner’s knee,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr announced Monday, as reported by Dalton Johnson at NBC Sports Bay Area.
This is Ingram’s second All-Star appearance. He also played in the Chicago All-Star Game in 2020, when he was with the Pelicans, the year he won Most Improved Player.
This year, Ingram finished 10th in the Eastern Conference fan voting and eighth in the player voting. The only players who got more fan votes but are not in the game are Brooklyn’s Michael Porter Jr. (day-to-day with a knee issue) and James Harden, who was recently traded from the Clippers — who are hosting this All-Star Game — to the Cavaliers.
Ingram earned this spot as the leading scorer on the No. 5-seeded Raptors, averaging 22 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 3.7 assists per game, with 33 games in which he scored 20 or more points.
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All-Star Game format
This year, the NBA All-Star Game returns to NBC and debuts on Peacock — and it falls right in the middle of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. That was a perfect setup for the first-of-its-kind All-Star Game format, a USA vs. World showdown that fans and players have been asking for.
The 24 All-Star players have been divided into three teams, two USA teams — USA Stripes and USA Stars — and one World Team. Those three teams will compete in a round-robin tournament of four 12-minute games, each team playing at least two games.
At the end of the round-robin, the two top teams will play a championship game (the fourth 12-minute game of the day) for the title. (If there is a tie it comes down to point differential.)
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The 75th NBA All-Star Game will take place on Sunday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m. Eastern, an earlier time than in previous years, leading into more coverage of the Milan Cortina Winter…
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