LeBron James and Kevin Durant, captains in the NBA All-Star

LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers) and Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets) will be the captains of the two NBA All-Star teams, which will be played on February 20 in Cleveland (USA).

Both were also chosen as captains at last year's event.

The question remains whether Durant will get to play him, given that he injured his knee earlier this month and still has several weeks to recover.

Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors), Ja Morant (Memphis Grizzlies, first All-Star pick), Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets) and Andrew Wiggins (Golden State Warriors, first All-Star pick) are the other four starters. elected from the Western Conference.

DeMar DeRozan (Chicago Bulls), Trae Young (Atlanta Hawks), Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks) and Joel Embiid (Philadelphia 76ers) were picked as the other remaining starters within the Eastern Conference.

The names of the ten chosen come from a calculation that takes into account the online vote of NBA fans (50% of the total), the elections of the league players (25%) and the opinions of the media. communication (25%). Although five starters are elected from each conference (one captain and four players), that doesn't mean they're going to line up in East vs. West blocks. Traditionally, the All-Star played the best players in the Western Conference against the best in the Eastern Conference. However, the NBA changed the format of this meeting in 2018 to give it one more point of competitiveness and emotion.

After the announcement of the two captains and the other eight All-Star starters, the next step is the election of the fourteen reserves, who are chosen by the 30 NBA coaches and who will be announced on February 3.

Next, the two captains will meet on February 10 for the draft, a process in which they take turns choosing the members of their team regardless of the conference in which they play.

The only rule in the draft selection is that they first have to choose from the eight starting players before they start selecting from the reserves.

Also, the coaches of both teams will be announced two weeks before All-Star weekend (February 18-20).

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