{"id":442388,"date":"2026-01-28T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442388\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:57:08","slug":"shams-charania-to-play-in-2026-nba-all-star-celebrity-game-im-a-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442388\/","title":{"rendered":"Shams Charania to Play in 2026 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game: \u2018I’m a Shooter’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shams Charania<\/a> will be making his NBA debut on the court during this year’s All-Star Weekend<\/a> next month in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The ESPN sports reporter teased that he’ll be suiting up for the sports event during the Tuesday (January 27) episode of sports talk show NBA Today. “That’s always been a dream for me, Hannah, so I appreciate it,” Charania told co-host Hannah Storm. “Between the trade deadline and the celebrity game, now I realize I got a lot of ramp-up to do. I gotta represent.”<\/p>\n

Charania also broke down his court skills, adding, “I’m a shooter, I can handle the ball, and I can make my floaters.”<\/p>\n

Also expected to participate in the 2026 NBA Celebrity All-Star game are GloRilla<\/a> and Mustard<\/a>, with more guests to be announced. The sports anchor gave himself a scouting report last year on ESPN, as seen in the TikTok below, where he reacted to a video of himself making “buckets.”<\/p>\n

“Don’t sleep on me. Come on now,” he said at the time.<\/p>\n

The 2026 NBA All-Star Game will be held at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood from February 13-15, while several events throughout the weekend will also be held at the Kia Forum and Los Angeles Convention Center. Charania will hold it down during the Celebrity All-Star Game at Kia Forum on February 13 at 7 p.m., and tickets are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shams Charania will be making his NBA debut on the court during this year’s All-Star Weekend next month…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-442388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442388","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=442388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}