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2022 NBA Rising Stars Game Preview

Who: Clorox Rising Stars Game
When: 8:00pm CST
Where: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (Cleveland, OH)
TV: TNT

After taking a year off due to COVID-19, the NBA’s Rising Stars game is back this season and features a laundry list of the league’s top young talent:

These four rosters were announced a few weeks ago following a player pool draft conducted by 75th Anniversary Team members and Rising Stars coaches Rick Barry, Gary Payton, Isiah Thomas and James Worthy. As the league continues to tinker with new wrinkles and versions of this exhibition contest, the NBA will be debuting yet another new format, with 28 players (comprising 12 rookies, 12 sophomores, and four members of the NBA G League Ignite developmental squad) competing in a mini-tournament of three separate games.