NBA All-Star game rosters to be picked on the night of the matchup
The NBA All-Star rosters will not be known until the night of the game on February 19.
The team captains - probably LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers and either Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo or Brooklyn's Kevin Durant - will make their picks in a live, televised pregame segment shortly before the game begins in Salt Lake City.
Durant actually once suggested the idea on a podcast appearance with boardroom tv, and it appears that the league liked his idea.
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced the format change on Tuesday night.
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This will be the sixth time that the league has used the format where captains choose their teams, but in each of the first five instances the rosters were selected several days before the game.
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