NBA All-Star Game
originally aired on TBS
The National Basketball Association All-Star Game is a basketball exhibition game hosted every February by the NBA and showcases 24 of the league's star players. It is the featured event of NBA All-Stars Weekend, a three-day event which goes from Friday to Sunday. The starting lineup for each squad is selected by a combination of fan, player, and media voting, while head coaches choose the reserves, seven players from their respective conferences, so each side has a 12-man roster. The head coach of the team with the best record in each conference is chosen to lead their respective conference. The first game was first played at the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. In 2010, the attendance record for a basketball game with 108,