Los Angeles, California is the place to be for the next few days. La La Land is once again the host of this year’s NBA All Star weekend. Celebrities, models, VIP’s, wanna-be’s, and joe shmoes will be painting the city red all weekend long, with plenty of basketball and bottle popping going on.
Here are this weekend’s highlighted events and participants:
| EAST | WEST | |
| Derrick Rose | Chris Paul | |
| Dwyane Wade | Kobe Bryant | |
| Lebron James | Kevin Durant | |
| Amar’e Stoudemire | Carmelo Anthony | |
| Dwight Howard | Tim Duncan * |
* Tim Duncan is the replacement selected by Gregg Popovich for injured center Yao Ming.
East Reserves: Ray Allen, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Chris Bosh, Al Horford and Joe Johnson.
West Reserves: Pau Gasol, Dirk Nowitzki, Russell Westbrook, Manu Ginobili, Tim Duncan, Deron Williams, Kevin Love and Blake Griffin.
Doc Rivers (East) and Gregg Popovich (West) will be the coaches in the NBA All-Star Game.
Blake Griffin headlines the 2011 Slam Dunk competition. Serge Ibaka, JaVale McGee and DeMar DeRozan complete the quartet.
All-Stars Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Durant lead the Three-Point Contest participants.
Blake Griffin and Tyreke Evans lead the Rookie Challenge rosters.
Skills Challenge Contest participants: Chris Paul, Stephen Curry, Derrick Rose, John Wall and Russell Westbrook.
Team Texas will be trying to become the first to repeat as Shooting Stars champions.
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