For the first time in more than two decades, one of basketball’s biggest annual events is coming back to the Bay Area.
The Golden State Warriors will host the 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend at Chase Center, the team and league announced in a press conference on Monday.
"This will be the epicenter of basketball around the world," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said of The City and the Bay Area hosting the event Feb. 14-16, 2025.Â
The three-day gathering in mid-February, which culminates with the All-Star Game, features a swath of business meetings, press events, concerts, parties and other on-court All-Star events, including the 3-point and Slam Dunk contests.
The league’s best and brightest will hit The City just months before the Bay Area’s first WNBA team begins its inaugural season. The team, which was announced in September and has yet to be named, will play its home games at Chase Center and practice at the Warriors’ former practice facility in Oakland.
This is the first time the Warriors have hosted NBA All-Star Weekend since 2000, when they still played at Oakland Arena. The weekend is most remembered not for the game, but rather Vince Carter’s astonishing Slam Dunk contest, widely regarded as the top performance in the event’s history.
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This will be the third time the NBA has held its All-Star exhibition in the Bay Area. In addition to Oakland, the NBA’s top players matched up in Daly City at the Cow Palace in 1967, the Warriors’ home venue at the time. Warriors legend Rick Barry won the game’s Most Valuable Player Award.
The City hasn’t hosted an All-Star Game for any of the four major men’s professional sports since 2007, when Oracle Park held the MLB All-Star Game. Indianapolis will hold this season’s NBA All-Star Game in February.
The 2025 NBA All-Star Game will tip off a busy stretch of sporting events in the Bay Area. A year later, Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara will host Super Bowl LXÂ in February and men's FIFA World Cup matches that summer.Â
"It means a lot of money and a lot of visitors," San Francisco Mayor London Breed said of the NBA All-Star event, adding that officials expect some 135,000 visitors to the Bay Area to spend more than $350 million during the February 2025 weekend.Â
