The 2025 NBA All-Star reserves were revealed on Thursday night during TNT’s Inside the NBA broadcast and officially confirmed by the league (Twitter links).
Fourteen players will join the 10 starters announced last week in the All-Star Game in San Francisco on Feb. 16.
All-Star reserves were selected by the league’s head coaches. Here are the players who made the cut:
Eastern Conference reserves:
- Guard: Jaylen Brown, Celtics
- Guard: Cade Cunningham, Pistons
- Guard: Damian Lillard, Bucks
- Guard: Darius Garland, Cavaliers
- Guard: Tyler Herro, Heat
- Frontcourt: Evan Mobley, Cavaliers
- Frontcourt: Pascal Siakam, Pacers
The East features three first-time All-Stars in Cunningham, Herro and Mobley. The guard spots in the East were highly contentious, with Atlanta’s Trae Young, Chicago’s Zach LaVine, Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball and Philadelphia’s Tyrese Maxey among those also in the running. Ball finished first in fan voting, but that had no bearing on the coaches’ decisions.
The Cavaliers are well-represented in San Francisco, with Donovan Mitchell named a starter last week and Garland and Mobley now joining him. This is Garland’s second All-Star nod after being named in the 2021/22 season. Jarrett Allen also had a shot at a spot, but ultimately wasn’t voted in.
This is Jaylen Brown‘s fourth All-Star appearance, Lillard’s ninth, and Siakam’s third.
Western Conference reserves:
- Guard: Anthony Edwards, Timberwolves
- Guard: James Harden, Clippers
- Frontcourt: Anthony Davis, Lakers
- Frontcourt: Jaren Jackson Jr., Grizzlies
- Frontcourt: Alperen Sengun, Rockets
- Frontcourt: Jalen Williams, Thunder
- Frontcourt: Victor Wembanyama, Spurs
Wembanyama, Sengun and Williams are each first-time All-Stars. The reigning Rookie of the Year, Wembanyama has taken several steps forward to help the Spurs to a 20-24 record, putting them in contention for a play-in spot. Meanwhile, Sengun and Williams are key contributors for the top two seeds in the conference.
Edwards, in his third overall and consecutive appearance, is having a career year from beyond the arc, connecting on 41.8% of his 9.8 three-point attempts. We wrote earlier today about how the Grizzlies view Jackson as a bona fide star amid their 31-16 record this season.
Veterans Harden and Davis round out the West reserves. Harden, the most decorated reserve, is making his 11th appearance in the game while averaging 21.7 points and 8.4 assists per game in his age-35 season. Davis continues to be one of the premier defensive players in the league en route to earning his 10th All-Star nod. The Lakers big man is currently injured and out at least one week, but it’s unclear if that would affect his availability for the All-Star Game, which is still more than two weeks out.
Fresh off making the NBA Finals last season, the Mavericks won’t have a representative in the All-Star Game, with Luka Doncic injured and Kyrie Irving not earning a spot. The Kings’ Domantas Sabonis, the Clippers’ Norman Powell, the Suns’ Devin Booker and the Kings’ De’Aaron Fox were among those who were not named to the team.
damn sabonis no love
Sabonus average
League best in two categories
Rebounds 14.6
3pt 48.1%
If Sabonis had played for Warriors or Lakers, he would have been in?
How much does the fan vote count for the reserve selections? Sacramento is a small market, and don’t have a huge fan base nationwide.
Zero. The Coaches vote for reserves.
Well shame on them.
Norman Powell snubbed
Who would you replace?
I’m not a Harden hater but his teammate Powell would’ve been a better choice.
Harden, definitely.
Sengun!!!!
Alpy!!!!
East
I have Young and Ball in
West
After Luka was knocked off
I have Booker and Sabonis in
Not only thw Clippers have a better record than the Mavericks, Powell is having a better season than Kyrie
Norman Powell is the only snub worth talking about. He really should be in this game, this will likely be the only opportunity he will have of playing in it and they gave it to James Harden instead who has been there 11 times already.
Harden is a better choice than Powell
Court view
Decision making
Passing skills
You don’t take out Edwards or Jalen Williams, you don’t
Harden is not the better option, his passing doesnt mean he has been better necessarily and overall Powell really deserved it. He has done some very heavy lifting for the Clippers this season.
Harden is only good about traveling so much the league had to change the rules for the worse.
They even made a rule so people like him couldn’t just jam the ball into opponents to draw a foul.
Powell deserved it, not tubs.
What demographic gave all those fan votes to LaMelo anyway?
Or was it all Lavar’s doing.
LaMelo is pretty popular with the youngsters. It makes me laugh a bit to imagine Lavar creating millions of email addresses so he can make millions of NBA.COM accounts to vote for LaMelo over and over again.
If he’s that popular it explains the decline in the NBA.
Fox and Booker should be in over Harden and Edwards.
Edwards’ numbers are better or the same on everything but assists and FT%.
I really thought Josh Hart had a chance. Love Hart great team player. My new favorite Knick. Let’s go Knicks!!!!
Stopped reading at Fox LMAO
Defense, all-stars should generally play it, even if there is none in the actual game.
The East —
Zach, Trae, Maxey deserve consideration. LaMelo has been out. Injuries definitely play a role here. And you need bigs on team. So I’m good with East team.
The West —
Harden having a solid stat yr. But still plays no D. No way he’s ahead of Kyrie or Powell.
And I don’t like Kyrie or Hardeb. good with rest.
Respect to the coaches taking Sengun > Sabonis
And Herro > LaMelo
And Harden > Kyrie (who HAS missed 10 games)
STATS ON LOTTERY TEAMS DON’T MATTER
And stats with no D. Don’t matter to you either.
Har en ……….
James Harden hahahahaha hahahahaha. Kyrie can consider himself lucky too.
Glad to see Cade get in.
Everybody’s glad he got in.
He made that leap, took reins of the team, got then in playoff spot contention.
Fully deserved.
Not mad at the list. I had Ball making it but it is what it is…