{"id":439222,"date":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:24:11","slug":"nba-rising-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439222\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Rising Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1996311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/rising-stars-logo-26-784x441.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/allstar\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA All-Star 2026: Complete coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The players who have been selected to compete in the 2026 Castrol Rising Stars will be announced tonight on Peacock at 6:30 ET, ahead of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/games?date=2026-01-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tripleheader<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The annual showcase of premier young talent, featuring a mini-tournament with four teams and three games spotlighting the league\u2019s top rookies and second-year standouts, is set to be played Friday, Feb. 13, at the LA Clippers\u2019 Intuit Dome (9 ET, Peacock) as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/allstar\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA All-Star 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following tonight\u2019s announcement, the selected players will be drafted onto three teams on Tuesday (7 ET, Peacock), with a fourth team comprised of NBA G League players.<\/p>\n<p>Hall of Famers Carmelo Anthony, Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady will serve as honorary coaches for the Castrol Rising Stars mini tourney. Austin Rivers will coach the G League Rising Stars team.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2026 Castrol Rising Stars will be announced tonight at 6:30 PM ET on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peacock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@peacock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pool will feature a total of 21 NBA rookies and sophomores, plus seven players who have played in NBA G League games this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ki8nU0johZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Ki8nU0johZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2015855323899129907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Presenting the honorary head coaches for the 2026 Castrol Rising Stars!<\/p>\n<p>NBA Rookies and Sophomores will be drafted onto three teams on Tuesday (1\/27) at 7:00pm\/et on Peacock, with NBA G League players to comprise the fourth team.<\/p>\n<p>The four teams will compete in the Castrol\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lb37AOyoHC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/lb37AOyoHC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2011240741251543283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0NBA All-Star 2026: Complete coverage The players who have been selected to compete in the 2026 Castrol Rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,95259,85],"class_list":["post-439222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-rising-stars","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}