Considered a fan favorite, one of the events leading up to the NBA All-Star game is the All-Star Celebrity basketball game. With stars coming from every walk of life such as the WWE and the NFL, it’s truly a who’s who event.
But, who are the stars of the celebrity game? Let’s break down the roster.
Team Bonds
Coaches:
Barry Bonds: Arguably the greatest baseball player to play the game, Bonds played for the San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates in his career, and still holds the single season home run record.
2 Chainz: “HORSEPOWER, HORSEPOWER, ALL THIS POLO ON I GOT HORSEPOWER”. 2 Chainz actually played basketball before becoming a rapper, playing for Alabama State in 1996 and 1997. However, I think the pivot to rapping was one of the best he could make. Now, he’s back and coaching Team Bonds.
Roster:
Kai Cenat: Kai Cenat is a streamer and YouTuber who has quickly become one of the most popular people in the world. As of this writing he has seven million subscribers on YouTube and 16.3 millions subscribers on Twitch.
Baron Davis: A legend in the Bay Area, Baron Davis is a former guard for the Golden State Warriors. He played for the Warriors from 2004-2008, playing a crucial part on the “We Belive” Warriors that upset the number one seed in the first round of the playoffs. Davis also threw down one of the nastiest dunks I’ve ever seen.
Rome Flynn: Flynn is an actor who made his call to fame on How To Get Away with Murder from 2018-2020 and The Bold and the Beautiful from 2015-2017. He won the 2018 Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series.
Allisha Gray: Gray is a guard for the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA. Last season, she averaged about 16 points per game and four rebounds, helping the Dream make the playoffs.
Mickey Guyton: Guyton is a country music artist who was nominated for Best Country Song at the 2022 Country Music awards (“Remember Her Name” was the name of the song).
Tucker Halpern: Halpern is one half of the house pop duo Sofi Tukker, who have had songs in movies such as Ocean’s Eight and Birds of Prey. Halpern also played basketball at Brown University, where he averaged 10 points per game.
Noah Kahan: Kahan is a singer-songwriter who is known for songs such as “Stick Season” and “You’re Gonna Go Far”. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2025, for best Country Duo/Pop performance for the song “Cowboys Cry Too” with Kelsea Ballerini.
Danny Ramirez: Ramirez is set to play the new Falcon in the MCU, specifically in Captain America: Brave New World. He also played Mickey “Fanboy” Garcia in Top Gun:Maverick.
Masai Russell: Russell won the gold medal for Team USA in the 100 meter hurdles event, and is also the U.S. NCAA record holder in the 100m hurdles.
Pablo Schreiber: Schreiber is best known for his role as Nick Sobotka in The Wire, but starred as Master Chief in the Paramount+ Halo series.
Dylan Wang: Wang is a Chinese actor and singer, best known for his role on Love Between Fairy and Devil as Dongfang Qingcang.
Team Rice
Coaches:
Jerry Rice: I mean, what else is there to say about one of the greatest NFL players of all time? Rice set almost every record possible as a member of the San Francisco 49ers and should be recorgnized as the GOAT.
Khaby Lame: Lame is an influencer on social media who has the most followers on TikTok as of 2025.
Roster:
Matt Barnes: Matt Barnes is from Santa Clara, CA, but is most known for being the glue guy on many successful NBA teams, and runs a successful podcast named All the Smoke. He also beat up Derek Fisher.
Bayley: Bayley is a WWE superstar from California who is a core member of the women’s wrestling revolution that took place within the company. She’s won titles on NXT, Raw and Smackdown and is one of the best women’s wrestlers alive.
Chris Brickley: Brickley is one of the most popular basketball trainers in the world right now, and has helped elevate guys like Atlanta Hawks’ All-Star Trae Young.
AP Dhillon: AP Dhillon is an Indo-Canadian rapper. In 2020 he and label-mates Gurinder Gill and Manni Sandhu made the song “Majhail”, which peaked at the top of the UK Asian and Punjabi charts.
Druski: Druski is a comedian who has nine million followers on Instagram, and his sketch comedy skits “Coulda Been Records”, have been a hit. Druski has also appeared in many NBA commercials.
Walker Hayes: Do you remember the “Fancy Like Applebees” song that played during every commercial during college football season a couple years back? Yeah this is the guy that made it.
Shelby McEwen: McEwen is an Olympic high jumper who won the silver medal in the high jump at the 2024 Olympic games. Expect him to dunk in this game.
Terrell Owens: One of the best NFL wide receivers of all time, Owens is third in NFL history in career receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Owens also played basketball in college at Chattanooga.
Shaboozey: Shaboozey is a country music artist who owns quite possibly one of the biggest songs of 2024 with “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”. He was nominated for five Grammys this year.
Oliver Stark: Stark is a British actor who is known for his role as Evan Buckley on 9-1-1.
Kayla Thornton: Thornton is the newest member of the Golden State Valkyries, the latest WNBA expansion team. Before being drafted by Golden State, she helped the New York Liberty win the WNBA championship in 2024.
The Celebrity All-Star game will be held on Friday, Feb. 14 at 7pm EST at Oakland arena. The game will be broadcasted on ESPN.