NBA announces 2024 Rising Stars participants

Today, the NBA announced the 28players who have earned spots to compete in the 2024 Panini RisingStars, which will take place on Friday, Feb. 16 at GainbridgeFieldhouse in Indianapolis as part of NBA All-Star 2024. The annualshowcase of premier young talent, featuring a mini-tournament withfour teams and three games, will air live at 9 p.m. ET on TNT.

The player pool consists of 11 NBArookies, 10 second-year NBA players and seven NBA G League players.The 21 NBA players, selected by NBA assistant coaches, will bedrafted onto three seven-player teams. The seven NBA G Leagueplayers, selected by the league office, will comprise the fourthteam.

Six-time NBA All-Star and NaismithMemorial Basketball Hall of Famer Pau Gasol will return as one ofthe four honorary head coaches after leading his team to the RisingStars championship last year. Joining Gasol as honorary headcoaches are Indiana Fever legend and 10-time WNBA All-Star TamikaCatchings and former Indiana Pacers standouts Jalen Rose and DetlefSchrempf.

Catchings, a Naismith MemorialBasketball Hall of Famer, led the Fever to the 2012 WNBAchampionship. Rose helped the Pacers reach the 2000 NBA Finals andwas the Kia NBA Most Improved Player that season. Schrempf, athree-time NBA All-Star, won back-to-back Kia NBA Sixth Man Awardswith the Pacers in the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons.

Gasol (Team Pau), Catchings (TeamTamika) and Rose (Team Jalen) will select their teams through theRising Stars Draft, which will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 6 at 4p.m. ET and stream live on the NBA App. Schrempf (TeamDetlef) will coach the team of NBA G League players.

All three games in Panini Rising Starswill be played to a Final Target Score, meaning each game will endwith a made basket or a made free throw instead of with the clockrunning out. The semifinal games will be played to a Final TargetScore of 40. The championship game will be played to a Final TargetScore of 25.

Team A will face Team B in the firstsemifinal (Game 1), and Team C will play Team D in the secondsemifinal (Game 2). The winner of Game 1 will meet the winner ofGame 2 in the championship (Game 3). The semifinal matchupswill be announced at a later date.

In selecting the NBA players forPanini Rising Stars, each NBA team submitted one ballot percoaching staff. Each coaching staff selected four frontcourtplayers, four guards and two additional players at either position,in order of preference, for the rookie ballot and the sophomoreballot. Coaches were not permitted to vote for any player on theirteam.

The NBA participants for Panini RisingStars were determined by the total points each player received fromthe ballots. Points were awarded based on where a player was rankedon each ballot. The player pool includes one more rookie thansophomore based on total points received.

Assistant coaches from the NBAAll-Star Game coaching staffs will join the honorary head coachesin coaching the Panini Rising Stars teams. The NBA All-Star Gamecoaching staffs for both the Eastern Conference and the WesternConference have yet to be determined.

Tickets for Panini Rising Stars areavailable at NBAEvents.com and through the NBA Events App, whichcan be downloaded in theAppleStoreorGooglePlay Store.

Below is the playerpool for the 2024 Panini Rising Stars.

PANINI RISING STARS: NBAPLAYERS

NBA Rookies

NBA Sophomores

Bilal Coulibaly (Guard | Washington Wizards)

Paolo Banchero (Frontcourt | Orlando Magic)

Keyonte George (Guard | Utah Jazz)

Dyson Daniels (Guard | New Orleans Pelicans)

Jordan Hawkins (Guard | New Orleans Pelicans)

Jalen Duren (Frontcourt | Detroit Pistons)

Scoot Henderson (Guard | Portland Trail Blazers)

Jaden Ivey (Guard | Detroit Pistons)

Chet Holmgren (Frontcourt | Oklahoma City Thunder)

Walker Kessler (Frontcourt | Utah Jazz)

Jaime Jaquez Jr. (Frontcourt | Miami Heat)

Bennedict Mathurin (Guard | Indiana Pacers)

Dereck Lively II (Frontcourt | Dallas Mavericks)

Keegan Murray (Frontcourt | Sacramento Kings)

Brandon Miller (Frontcourt | Charlotte Hornets)

Shaedon Sharpe (Guard | Portland Trail Blazers)

Brandin Podziemski (Guard | Golden State Warriors)

Jabari Smith Jr. (Frontcourt | Houston Rockets)

Cason Wallace (Guard | Oklahoma City Thunder)

Jalen Williams (Frontcourt | Oklahoma City Thunder)

Victor Wembanyama (Frontcourt | San Antonio Spurs)