{"id":484766,"date":"2026-02-17T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:47:09","slug":"the-nba-all-star-game-earned-largest-audience-since-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484766\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA All-Star Game earned largest audience since 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2061661\" class=\"wp-image-2061661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages_Ant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2061661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Edwards was named MVP of the 2026 NBA All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA tried a new All-Star format. And the public responded.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 NBA All-Star Game, featuring a USA vs. The World format for the first time, peaked at nearly 10 million viewers and averaged 8.8 million viewers on NBC, Peacock and Telemundo. That\u2019s the largest NBA All-Star audience since 2011, according to preliminary Nielsen data and digital data from Adobe Analytics.<\/p>\n<p>The early returns indicate that the 2026 All-Star game topped the 2025 edition (4.7 million voters) by 87 percent. Viewership peaked at 9.8 million voters from 7 to 7:15 PM ET, when the USA Stripes were closing out a 48-45 victory over the World team.<\/p>\n<p>Breakout stars from the All-Star Game include Anthony Edwards \u2014 who was named MVP for the victorious Stars \u2014 and Victor Wembanyama, who scored 33 points and delivered eight rebounds and two blocked shots for the World team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Edwards was named MVP of the 2026 NBA All-Star Game. The NBA tried a new All-Star format.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[240590,64,35070,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-484766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-all-star-game","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-audience","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484766","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=484766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}