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NBA All-Star captains picking rosters live on night of game

The NBA All-Star Game is Feb. 19. And nobody will know the All-Star rosters until that night. Not even the players themselves.

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.

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced the format change Tuesday night.

This will be the sixth time the league has used the format in which captains choose their teams, but in each of the first five instances the rosters were selected several days before the game.