Source: https://www.nba.com/news/2026-shooting-stars

Event Info:

NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2026 – The NBA today announced the teams for the 2026 Kia Shooting Stars on Saturday, Feb. 14 at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. The timed shooting competition returns to NBA All-Star Saturday, which tips off at 5 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

Four teams of three – each featuring two NBA players and one NBA legend – will compete in the event. The teams reflect NBA All-Star connections, school and team affiliations, and family ties.

Kia Shooting Stars will feature a two-round format, with all four teams competing in the first round and the top two advancing to the final round. Teams will compete one at a time and have 1:10 to score points while rotating through seven designated shooting locations around the court, with all three players on a team shooting at each spot in a set order. The team with the higher score in the final round will be crowned the champion.

Teams:

Team All-Star: Scottie Barnes; Chet Holmgren; Richard Hamilton

Team Cameron: Jalen Johnson; Kon Knueppel; Corey Maggette

Team Harper: Ron Harper Sr.; Dylan Harper; Ron Harper Jr.

Team Knicks: Jalen Brunson; Karl-Anthony Towns; Allan Houston

Note: This event appears to be replacing the Skills Challenge on All-Star Saturday this year.

F_CKMONEY | Knicks

75 | 6 hours ago

Are any of the Harpers even good three-point shooters lmao

efshoemaker | Celtics

45 | 5 hours ago

Ron Jr. is shooting close to 40% in the g league this year.

whobroughtmehere | Pistons

8 | 3 hours ago

All Star Game outsourcing to the G League again just like how Sheduer Sanders ended up in the Pro Bowl

AlmostHereButNot | Bulls

12 | 5 hours ago

Ron Jr is shooting 31.6% from 3 and Dylan is shooting 24.5%. Ron Sr. didn’t fare much better during his career.

Gandalf_from_3 | Celtics

6 | 5 hours ago

Ron Harper Jr. Is shooting 31.6% but only on 19 attempts. Thats not a real number.

Hes shooting 40.2% in the G-League on 87 attempts.

Also its G-League so not the same, just adding context.

AlmostHereButNot | Bulls

5 | 5 hours ago

Nah, that’s fair. G-League is accurate enough. This contest is uncontested shots, so I’m sure he’ll do more than fine.

CommunityGlittering2

10 | 5 hours ago

it’s not the 3pt contest

Teams will compete one at a time and have 1:10 to score points while rotating through seven designated shooting locations around the court, with all three players on a team shooting at each spot in a set order. The team with the higher score in the final round will be crowned the champion

PrimeTimeInc | Hornets

0 | 4 hours ago

The whole league is a 3 pt contest. Look no further than hornets recent run of health and success

doomrider2 | Lakers

62 | 6 hours ago

Scottie is shooting 30.6% from 3 why is he here?

roastedhambone | Thunder

57 | 6 hours ago

He agreed to do it

Turk1518 | Thunder

4 | 4 hours ago

Feel like they needed volunteers and got voluntold that they get the opportunity lol

whobroughtmehere | Pistons

1 | 3 hours ago

Scottie “Shedeur Sanders” Barnes

metaslaves | Toronto Huskies

15 | 5 hours ago

No but he’s hilarious lmao I remember when him and Maxey combined to miss 6 layups that one year

FactCheckingThings | Raptors

2 | 2 hours ago

And his last allstar during the halfcourt shot part of some skills team challenge did a backwards shot when noone was hitting their shots, Scotties good for fun TV.

flow2ebb2flow

9 | 5 hours ago

He’s just a fun and goofy person I think

Nugur

3 | 5 hours ago

For the vibes….

bobak186

1 | 4 hours ago

This is the NBA all star shooting challenge presented by [insert sponsor here]. Little kids dream about winning this their whole life and to invite someone to make a joke out of it or for vibes I want people putting their blood sweat and tears into this event not there to go viral.

This is sarcasm

SmartyPants918

1 | 5 hours ago

his first and last names have 3 letters each

GGTae | Spurs

2 | 5 hours ago

where’s Bol Bol ?!

beefJeRKy-LB | Lebanon

1 | 5 hours ago

I mean these should be standstill 3s and the challenge isn’t ALL 3s

fragileallstar | Raptors

1 | 5 hours ago

trust, he’ll be entertaining

bigraptorr | Raptors

1 | 4 hours ago

They need someone to laugh at again

Serviceofman

1 | 4 hours ago

This is why people love Scottie Barnes… dude just loves ball, and puts himself in pressure situations where he can grow and learn. How many young players would do this?? lol

BatmanHive | Lakers

0 | 5 hours ago

He’s gonna redeem himself on that floater

fuzzythinker | Nuggets

49 | 6 hours ago

For those wondering, team Cameron is named after Duke’s Cameron Stadium, where the 3 players played. I see no connection to the formation of the “All-Star” team though…

grandmasterfunk | Rockets

16 | 5 hours ago

Was wondering why they were called that lol. Wonder why they didn’t just go with team Duke or team Blue Devils

MddlingAges | Knicks

5 | 4 hours ago

Cause of Duke lawyers

AlmostHereButNot | Bulls

12 | 5 hours ago

Three random All-Star players, I guess. I can’t think of any connection beyond that.

Conscious-Push7474

7 | 5 hours ago

I completely forgot that Jalen Johnson went to Duke

Ambitious-Visual207 | Pistons

2 | 5 hours ago

It might be because he quit mid-season when Duke was struggling to preserve his stock and prepare for the draft.

amidon1130 | Hawks

2 | 3 hours ago

And we thank him every day for screwing himself over 🙏🙏🙏

Conscious-Push7474

1 | an hour ago

Damn I didn’t know that

InsertWhittyPhrase

2 | 4 hours ago

Does Chet have any notable Broadway/acting connections other than the shitty commercials? Barnes just did the Nutcracker. The other dude’s last name is Hamilton…

Edit: maybe it’s because he looks like a certain historical figure who had a not such a good day as an audience member at the theatre?

mmmjeep | Hawks

36 | 6 hours ago

Knueppel will hard carry team Cameron.

qb1120 | West

11 | 5 hours ago

I feel like Maggette will show people he’s still got it. He played in the Big 3 for quite a while after he retired

Vordeo | Jazz

3 | 5 hours ago

This is Bad Porn disrespect.

Ok-Discipline9998 | Raptors

23 | 6 hours ago

Team All-Star is gonna get fucking steamrolled

OverlyLukewarmTea | Raptors

12 | 5 hours ago

Our boy getting set up 😭

thetalkinghawk | Thunder

4 | 5 hours ago

For real. Chet is a pretty good stretch big but he’s not a sniper lol.

Turk1518 | Thunder

6 | 4 hours ago

This is the most bizarre pairing. “Hazing” the younger players because no one else wanted to do it? 🫠

rhesuswitherspoon

2 | 3 hours ago

Rip’s gonna carry the team

beefJeRKy-LB | Lebanon

18 | 5 hours ago

RIP Skills challenge. CP3 and Wemby destroyed you. But in all honesty, I’ll take this over that lame ass bit. This isn’t a pure 3 point challenge btw. Look at the seven locations:

Shot #1- Right Lane Layup/Dunk- 2 pts
• Shot #2- 18’ Right Baseline- 2 pts
• Shot #3- Right Elbow- 2 pts
• Shot #4- Right Wing 3-pointer- 3 pts
• Shot #5- Top of the Key- 2 pts
• Shot #6- Left Corner 3-pointer- 3 pts
• Shot #7- Long Range 3-pointer- 4 pts

It’s a mix of spots between the paint/midrange and a few 3pt spots.

Aidanj927 | Spurs

10 | 5 hours ago

We really made them change the entire event

mercfan3

1 | 4 hours ago

The new women’s league is doing a 1v1 event this week. How much fun would that be on All Star Weekend? Do that and the three point contest.

Specialist_Act_5747

1 | 2 hours ago

It’s like every event. It’s only cool if the players aren’t “too cool to care”. Odds are it would end up looking like an even worse all-star game, some kind of horse game with fake defending.

Getting a bunch of 8y olds to play on kids hoops would be more entertaining than 99% that we’re going to see.

_Juntao | Celtics

7 | 5 hours ago

Team knicks? Shouldn’t it be team clippers

Dantheman12310 | Lakers

3 | 5 hours ago

Well it does require a legend, & when you think of how the Clippers ended terms with 2 major players in Blake Griffin & Chris Paul very recently……..not exactly an ideal situation

Also Ballmer would probably flip if Lakers get more rep in his own building

laxdefender23 | Wizards

1 | 5 hours ago

They literally have Corey Maggette as a part of it. There’s your clippers star.

If I had to guess, they probably couldn’t get any current clippers to agree to participate. You know Kawhi ain’t doing that shit lmaoooo

MddlingAges | Knicks

3 | 4 hours ago

I like to think that they had Harden and CP3 a month ago. lollol.

AggravatingCan2352

5 | 6 hours ago

Should’ve been Scot Barnes and Maxey for max entertainment

lovo17 | Lakers

3 | 6 hours ago

It’s crazy how all the other events have just completely taken over compared to the dunk contest.

contemporarynight

3 | 4 hours ago

getting to see Allan Houston shoot the ball again is a W in my book

Lil_Piggy_Bank

2 | 6 hours ago

Actually this is pretty fun to watch

Pristine_Purpose_230 | Pistons

2 | 4 hours ago

Why the fuck is Cade not shooting with Rip at least?

TheMoorNextDoor | Nets

2 | 4 hours ago

Maggette back on the court!?! That’s kinda dope.

CasualHindu | Hornets

1 | 6 hours ago

THE NIPPLE MANNNN

Live-Cartographer-52

1 | 5 hours ago

Boring

heat_fan_ | Raptors

1 | 5 hours ago

Team All star are mot 3 pt shooters lol

Nabz23 | Suns

1 | 5 hours ago

Sct and Chet in the same team?! r/nbacirclejerk gonna have a seizure.

Also these are random as hell teams. At least have 1 LA team if the event is in LA

Rybackmonster

1 | 4 hours ago

does anyone else miss the old skills challenge

mercfan3

1 | 4 hours ago

Did Wemby and CP3 end the skills competition 😭😭

Chrome_Denim3367 | Magic

1 | 4 hours ago

Team “All Star”?

fucky0uai

1 | 3 hours ago

BAD PORN? THE FUCK?

AdventurousAd7091

1 | 3 hours ago

One more year that saturday seems much better than sunday. I like more the idea of the contests/drills than the game. This shooting stars seems better than the skill challenge, but we could have both (with clear rules), 3pt contest usually is nice and the dunks lets see. Sunday its usually bad, this year with the injuries (giannis out, luka prob out, sga prob out ….) probably will be even worst.

_Meece2_ | Lakers

1 | 2 hours ago

Im Team Bad Porn

AlmostHereButNot | Bulls

0 | 6 hours ago

Ron Harper Sr? Huh?

rattatatouille | SAS

15 | 6 hours ago

Five time champion Ron Harper Sr.

AlmostHereButNot | Bulls

13 | 5 hours ago

Man is 62 years old. I genuinely can’t wait to watch him go out there and shoot. He’s fun as hell, man.

KINGOFGAMES972 | Knicks

2 | 5 hours ago

I’m looking forward to see Allan Houston does

LongTimesGoodTimes

0 | 5 hours ago

I like that team Knicks is also technically team All Star

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Wasting-The-Dawn71 | Spurs

2 | 5 hours ago

Don’t look at Dylan’s %

svall18 | Hornets

1 | 5 hours ago

Lol Jesus Christ

Team Knicks is steamrolling tbh

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