Former Indiana All-American Trayce Jackson-Davis is one among 28 gamers chosen to compete within the 2025 Castrol Rising Stars occasion at NBA All-Star weekend subsequent month.
The occasion will happen on Friday, Feb. 14, at Chase Middle in San Francisco.
The No. 57 decide within the 2023 NBA draft, Jackson-Davis is averaging 8.2 factors, 6.4 rebounds and a couple of.2 assists in 20 minutes per recreation this season for Golden State.
The Castrol Rising Stars occasion is the NBA’s annual showcase of younger expertise. It features a mini-tournament with 4 groups and three video games. It can air at 9 p.m. ET on TNT.
The champion of the occasion will earn the chance to play within the 2025 NBA All-Star Sport on Sunday, Feb. 16, at Chase Middle. The All-Star recreation will begin at 8 p.m. ET on TNT.
The occasion’s pool of gamers contains 10 rookies, 11 sophomores and 7 G-League gamers. The league’s coaches chosen the rookies and sophomores, who can be drafted into three groups of seven gamers. The G-League individuals will make up the fourth staff.
Incomes his 1st #CastrolRisingStars choice… Trayce Jackson-Davis of the @warriors!@TrayceJackson was drafted because the 57th total decide within the 2023 NBA Draft out of Indiana. pic.twitter.com/I1EpK9O334
— #NBAAllStar (@NBAAllStar) January 28, 2025
Listed here are some further particulars, by way of the NBA:
The Rising Stars Draft will happen on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. ET on the NBA App and on social platforms @NBA. The three groups of NBA gamers can be drafted by honorary head coaches, who can be introduced at a later date.
Within the Castrol Rising Stars mini-tournament, Staff A will face Staff B within the first semifinal (Sport 1), and Staff C will play Staff D within the second semifinal (Sport 2). The winner of Sport 1 will meet the winner of Sport 2 within the championship (Sport 3).
For every semifinal recreation, the winner would be the first staff to achieve or surpass 40 factors. For the championship recreation, the winner would be the first staff to achieve or surpass 25 factors.
In deciding on the NBA gamers for Castrol Rising Stars, every NBA staff submitted one poll per teaching employees. Every teaching employees chosen 4 frontcourt gamers, 4 guards and two further gamers at both place, so as of desire, for the rookie poll and the sophomore poll. Coaches weren’t permitted to vote for any participant on their staff.
The NBA individuals for Castrol Rising Stars had been decided by the overall factors every participant acquired from the ballots. Factors had been awarded primarily based on the place a participant was ranked on every poll. The participant pool contains another sophomore than rookie primarily based on whole factors acquired.
If a participant is chosen to play within the NBA All-Star Sport and Castrol Rising Stars, he’ll solely compete for one of many three groups of NBA All-Stars on Sunday, Feb. 16.
The 2025 #CastrolRisingStars Participant Pool! @CastrolUSA
NBA Rookies and Sophomores can be drafted onto three groups on Tuesday, Feb. 4 (4:00pm/et on the NBA App & @NBA), with NBA G League Gamers to comprise the fourth staff. The 4 seven-player groups will compete within the mini… pic.twitter.com/8BcIRAZc4J
— NBA (@NBA) January 28, 2025
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